Most Perl 6 will look like Perl 5

[Mark Overmeer]

* Smylers (Smylers at stripey.com) [080125 11:13]:
> > * Jonathan Stowe (jns at gellyfish.com) [080125 09:59]:
> > 
> > > I am sure someone is going to reply "but but ... ", ... the wrong
> > > answer will be to explain it to *me* in relation to some ...
> > > functional programming paradigm ...
> > 
> > most importantly, "->" is used for nameless subroutines in Perl6, so
> > the ...
> 
> So the plan is that if we call them "nameless subroutines" then it isn't
> functional programming?

"Functional programming" is not about functions without a name, but
about programs without variables.
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               MarkOv

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