Most Perl 6 will look like Perl 5

[Jeff Anderson]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 6:30 AM, Matt Johnson <mwj at doc.ic.ac.uk> wrote:
>  ... sigil change makes me want to run
>  screaming for the hills. Why completely change a paradigm that's worked
>  fine for many years (that the sigil designates the return type) -- to
>  something which appears to be different for the sake of difference (now
>  the sigil designates the type we're looking into)?
>
>  Ugh. This kind of massive change to the language is part of the reason
>  why many users of Perl5 are really going to be disinclined to move to
>  Perl6


*raises hand -- My only gripe here is that i didn't want to have to
switch to another language to get a few new features.

-- 
jeffa