Re:Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?
by Grinnz on Thursday August 29, 2019 @12:47PM
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This would be a pretty difficult change. Aside from backwards incompatibility, module names are both filesystem lookups and package stash lookups, and in most cases both of those are case sensitive, and it's entirely possible for valid programs to use two modules that only differ in case - at best I could see a warning that searches for a "did you mean?" but that sounds slow.
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> Aside from backwards incompatibility
Isn't Perl 6 already backwards incompatible?
> module names are both filesystem lookups and package stash lookups
>> names converted to lowercase internally
Converting names to lowercase internally fixes this.
> it's entirely possible for valid programs to use two modules that only differ in case
Many people (myself included) would see this as a mis-feature not worth saving.