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Re: Higher Order Perl

by thor (Priest)
on Apr 20, 2005 at 02:54 UTC ( [id://449479]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Higher Order Perl

I'm thinking about picking up this book, but I have one reservation: Perl 6. For those that know, how much of this book's content will be relevant once Perl 6 comes out? I'd be disappointed if I bought the book and 3 months from now it's made obsolete by the next generation. Yes, I'm being an optimist as to when Perl 6 is coming out, but all the same, if I'm going to shift my way of thinking about things, I'd like for it to be relevant for more than a year...

thor

Feel the white light, the light within
Be your own disciple, fan the sparks of will
For all of us waiting, your kingdom will come

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Re^2: Higher Order Perl
by TimToady (Parson) on Apr 20, 2005 at 05:11 UTC
    I think most of the concepts will carry across, though some of the syntax will be a little different. For example, memoization is done in Perl 6 with "is cached", but the concept is the same. Tail recursion will hopefully be better supported in Perl 6, but that should be entirely transparent. It's a little easier to write closures in Perl 6, but they work very much like Perl 5's closures. It'll be a little easier to write arrays that extend themselves via generators, but they work on the same principle. And so on...

    In short, I don't think it would be a waste of your money.

      Coming from you, that means a lot. Thanks!

      thor

      Feel the white light, the light within
      Be your own disciple, fan the sparks of will
      For all of us waiting, your kingdom will come

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