Comments on: Moving From Perl 5 to Perl 6 – What's New, Tutorial Style http://beerpla.net/2008/08/22/moving-from-perl-5-to-perl-6-whats-new-tutorial-style/ where things have nothing to do with beer - tutorials, tips, how-tos, thoughts, hacks, and other techy nonsense Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:00:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: femi fagbemi taiwohttp://beerpla.net/2008/08/22/moving-from-perl-5-to-perl-6-whats-new-tutorial-style/#comment-28880 femi fagbemi taiwo Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:44:51 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2008/08/22/moving-from-perl-5-to-perl-6-whats-new-tutorial-style/#comment-28880 this perl 6 of a thing is gonna be a complicating idea cos i already can see myself disliking perl cos of this perl 6 thing this perl 6 of a thing is gonna be a complicating idea cos i already can see myself disliking perl cos of this perl 6 thing

]]> By: Jhunihttp://beerpla.net/2008/08/22/moving-from-perl-5-to-perl-6-whats-new-tutorial-style/#comment-11635 Jhuni Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:39:06 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2008/08/22/moving-from-perl-5-to-perl-6-whats-new-tutorial-style/#comment-11635 Ya I was really like my god how do they expect me to use ~ for concatenation I cannot type that character that quickly! Well I only use that for appending to a string: my Str $str; $str ~= 'asdf'; For concatenating several strings though fortunately there is the join method: ["Hello", " ", "World"].join.say; Ya I was really like my god how do they expect me to use ~ for concatenation I cannot type that character that quickly! Well I only use that for appending to a string:

my Str $str;
$str ~= 'asdf';

For concatenating several strings though fortunately there is the join method:

["Hello", " ", "World"].join.say;

]]> By: My Notes On Learning Python Coming From Perl | beer planethttp://beerpla.net/2008/08/22/moving-from-perl-5-to-perl-6-whats-new-tutorial-style/#comment-8515 My Notes On Learning Python Coming From Perl | beer planet Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:44:44 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2008/08/22/moving-from-perl-5-to-perl-6-whats-new-tutorial-style/#comment-8515 [...] default parameters, similar to PHP. Perl 5 doesn’t have such construct, it’s only introduced in Perl 6. For example 1 def do_search(string, start = [...] [...] default parameters, similar to PHP. Perl 5 doesn’t have such construct, it’s only introduced in Perl 6. For example 1 def do_search(string, start = [...]

]]> By: Golfspielhttp://beerpla.net/2008/08/22/moving-from-perl-5-to-perl-6-whats-new-tutorial-style/#comment-7097 Golfspiel Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:50:13 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2008/08/22/moving-from-perl-5-to-perl-6-whats-new-tutorial-style/#comment-7097 Hehe i like you beerpla.net. Sounds like Bierplanet. Still funny. Hehe i like you beerpla.net. Sounds like Bierplanet. Still funny.

]]> By: Artem Russakovskiihttp://beerpla.net/2008/08/22/moving-from-perl-5-to-perl-6-whats-new-tutorial-style/#comment-6319 Artem Russakovskii Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:53:27 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2008/08/22/moving-from-perl-5-to-perl-6-whats-new-tutorial-style/#comment-6319 Jay, allow me to refer you to http://beerpla.net/2006/06/02/beer-planet/ ... Jay, allow me to refer you to http://beerpla.net/2006/06/02/beer-planet/ …

]]> By: Jay Gadgethttp://beerpla.net/2008/08/22/moving-from-perl-5-to-perl-6-whats-new-tutorial-style/#comment-6318 Jay Gadget Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:48:38 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2008/08/22/moving-from-perl-5-to-perl-6-whats-new-tutorial-style/#comment-6318 found your page and thought it was about beer... now i'm a little bit disappointed ;) found your page and thought it was about beer… now i'm a little bit disappointed ;)

]]> By: moritzhttp://beerpla.net/2008/08/22/moving-from-perl-5-to-perl-6-whats-new-tutorial-style/#comment-6180 moritz Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:55:48 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2008/08/22/moving-from-perl-5-to-perl-6-whats-new-tutorial-style/#comment-6180 > I wonder if there are any Perl 6 changes > specifically affecting file/disk access, MySQL > interaction, and execution speed. I don't really know about disk access, but in terms of speed there are many improvements compared to perl 5. The two perhaps most important things are: 1) Static types allow better optimiztions 2) Overloading is gone (and replaced by multi method dispatch), and overloading was one of the perl 5 features that prevented many optimizations. There's no mysql specific features in Perl 6, but the new object model (about which I wrote about today, and which has many more features than I could show) will certainly help to build an easier, cleaner interface. > I wonder if there are any Perl 6 changes
> specifically affecting file/disk access, MySQL
> interaction, and execution speed.

I don't really know about disk access, but in terms of speed there are many improvements compared to perl 5. The two perhaps most important things are:
1) Static types allow better optimiztions
2) Overloading is gone (and replaced by multi method dispatch), and overloading was one of the perl 5 features that prevented many optimizations.

There's no mysql specific features in Perl 6, but the new object model (about which I wrote about today, and which has many more features than I could show) will certainly help to build an easier, cleaner interface.

]]> By: Dave Doylehttp://beerpla.net/2008/08/22/moving-from-perl-5-to-perl-6-whats-new-tutorial-style/#comment-6170 Dave Doyle Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:49:40 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2008/08/22/moving-from-perl-5-to-perl-6-whats-new-tutorial-style/#comment-6170 Agreed. This is an excellent series of posts that really brings the Perl 5 programmer into Perl 6. Heck of a lot easier to understand than the Apocalysis and Egesis stuff. Agreed. This is an excellent series of posts that really brings the Perl 5 programmer into Perl 6. Heck of a lot easier to understand than the Apocalysis and Egesis stuff.

]]> By: Artem Russakovskiihttp://beerpla.net/2008/08/22/moving-from-perl-5-to-perl-6-whats-new-tutorial-style/#comment-6166 Artem Russakovskii Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:00:13 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2008/08/22/moving-from-perl-5-to-perl-6-whats-new-tutorial-style/#comment-6166 Sorry, Baron, wordpress ate my < >. It's corrected now. Sorry, Baron, wordpress ate my <>. It's corrected now.

]]> By: Xaprbhttp://beerpla.net/2008/08/22/moving-from-perl-5-to-perl-6-whats-new-tutorial-style/#comment-6165 Xaprb Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:57:16 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2008/08/22/moving-from-perl-5-to-perl-6-whats-new-tutorial-style/#comment-6165 doit(:when, :what('more stuff')); # 'doing more stuff at noon' Where did "noon" come from? doit(:when, :what('more stuff')); # 'doing more stuff at noon'

Where did "noon" come from?

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