Re:Data munging in Perl 6 vs. Perl 5
by bane on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @08:49PM
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You should, even if you don't use it. It's highly likely that ideas that come from Perl 6 will be adopted in some form in most other major languages at some point.
Perl's weird, it just takes a bit of everything (and not in a C++ kind of "be" everything), tosses it in a blender and then suddenly everybody has or wants smoothies in their language.
A short list of what I think we'll see percolating over to other places:
- some of the better syntactic sugar ideas, like blocks and closures, comma as a list constructor, chained comparisons
- what will probably be best-in-class Unicode support
- autothreading
- further improvements to the way regexes are used
- grammars
- junctions could become the next "thing" in lots of languages
- elements of the module system, like using two versions at once without conflict
Perl's weird, it just takes a bit of everything (and not in a C++ kind of "be" everything), tosses it in a blender and then suddenly everybody has or wants smoothies in their language.
A short list of what I think we'll see percolating over to other places:
- some of the better syntactic sugar ideas, like blocks and closures, comma as a list constructor, chained comparisons
- what will probably be best-in-class Unicode support
- autothreading
- further improvements to the way regexes are used
- grammars
- junctions could become the next "thing" in lots of languages
- elements of the module system, like using two versions at once without conflict
- the different parameter passing modes
- the current Perl culture around testing
- bags and sets
- the continued relevance and model of CPAN