My favorite part of Perl 6 available now in Perl 5

22 Sep 2008

Perhaps my favorite parts of Perl 6 are subroutine signatures and getting rid of "my $self = shift;".

These features available now in Perl 5, without source filters, using Method::Signatures.

Sure, it's labeled as "ALPHA" involves some dark magic to make it work, but it's there to play with. And if it can be hacked up as a module, surely it would be feasible to add to Perl 5.12....

Posted by Mark Stosberg on Monday, September 22, 2008 at 2:34 PM

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