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... unprepared perl 5 code will manage to find itself submitted to a Perl 6 interpreter. You can count on it! In the above discussion, it doesn’t sound like Perl 6 will magically know when it is getting perl 5. Don't programmers have an obligation to "do the right thing" now to avoid problems in the future?

The problem is that the Perl 6 team knows about this issue and is working to address it, but hasn't decided exactly how to do so. Given that we don't yet know what "the right thing" is, calls to start doing something about it seem premature.

In reply to Re: Re: Ensuring forward compatibility by simonm
in thread Ensuring forward compatibility by DrHyde

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