Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku

Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by hnick on Friday October 11, 2019 @09:56PM (#21230067)

I'm not necessarily a fan of the OO in those either :)

I try to use OO sparingly when possible, and in Perl that generally just means I've been using a hash and decide it'd be more convenient that it keep some functions to itself rather than pass it around to other functions.

I will say in Perl's defense, the bare implementation really made me appreciate what OO actually is under the hood. I felt like I understood it much better, especially since it takes a mixed approach (rather than 'everything must be an object, including Program.cs' which I never really enjoyed).

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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by Grinnz on Saturday October 12, 2019 @12:57AM (#21230775)

It does make it very clear that it is just a data structure (state) associated with a class (behavior).

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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by tyingq on Saturday October 12, 2019 @10:32AM (#21233422)

It's also pretty neat that you can bless any type as an object. People use the hash most often for obvious reasons, but you can use a scalar/string, array, etc, if you wish.

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