Perl 6: Apocalypse 6 Released 247
data64 writes "The latest Apocalypse talks about subroutines. Looks like we finally get type signatures which are way more powerful than the rudimentary prototypes available with Perl5."
Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.
Apocalypse Now (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Apocalypse Now (Score:5, Funny)
The Last Apocolypse... (Score:1, Funny)
... was 9 months ago! [perl.org] I knew Perl was slow, but that's just bad! 8^)
Just kidding, great work guys!
Re:Mirror (Score:1, Funny)
Re:subroutines (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Perl is turning into a completely new language (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sorry. I think you are looking for this every-feature-is-in-the-core [php.net] language.
Glad to point you in the right direction!
enoch
Re:This kind of subroutine? (Score:2, Funny)
while (1) {fork ? `cat
he's insane (Score:2, Funny)
which might really mean:
my %pet is Hash(keytype => Str,
returns => Array(
returns => Array(
returns => Hash(
keytype => Str,
returns => Array(
returns => Cat)))))
or some such.
Larry's losing it. He's going to snap at any moment. Nobody can keep this up for long. If you're near him, grab a raincoat, he's going to explode at any second.
Seriously though, Larry, you're a genius.
Do not read the paragraph below:
This comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition. Comment aborted. So I did, by adding this paragraph, hoping to throw it off.
Easy Fix (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Perl is turning into a completely new language (Score:3, Funny)
I am so looking forward to Microsoft BrainFuck.
It's called Visual Basic ;)