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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.
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.