What is Python's answer to Perl 6?

Roy Smith roy at panix.com
Sun Oct 31 16:46:42 EST 2004


Nick Craig-Wood <nick at craig-wood.com> wrote:
> Perl5 seemed a reasonable way to cludge on some OO stuff etc without 
> completely redoing the language.

I would hardly call perl's OO stuff "reasonable".  A cludge, for sure.  
But I think reasonable would be stretching it.  Anyway, the {}-> syntax 
looks more like a smiley face to me than a programming language 
construct.



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