Comment by topspin
7 months ago
> and perl hasn't evolved much since then
Perl (5) has been evolving, quietly. The language has had many nice additions over the years. Some of it is backporting from 6.
7 months ago
> and perl hasn't evolved much since then
Perl (5) has been evolving, quietly. The language has had many nice additions over the years. Some of it is backporting from 6.
oh that's interesting. especially the backports. i did not consider that as realistic since perl6/raku is using an entirely new virtual machine. so maybe they are actually reimplementing ideas that are in raku but work with perl 5?
I can't speak to the degree to which Raku VM ideas are being backported. I'm not that deep into Perl. I just know that the Perl 5 language itself is still regularly enhanced, and some amount (can't give you a percentage or speak to the pedigree of all the changes,) of that is inspired by Perl 6. Perl 5 now is a great deal nicer than it was, say 10 years ago, due to these updates.
Sub signatures, defer blocks, official "class", "say", try/catch, enhanced dereference syntax, new and enhanced operators, etc. Significant language changes have been and continue appearing.