[Templates] Converting from old template language which allows nested tags into TT template

Bill Ward bill@wards.net
Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:44:30 -0700


On 10/19/06, Buddy Burden <buddy@thinkgeek.com> wrote:
> Josh,
>
> > ... but in Perl 6, as in the
> > Template Toolkit, the '.' will be used as the method calling operator
> > and ' _ ' will be used for string concatenation.
>
> But, alas, it is true no longer.  Perl 6 will now be using ~ for this (see, e.g.,
> http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S03.html).  Which I personally think is just bizarre, but then nobody asked me.
> :)  I rather liked _ (well, actually I was one of those weird people who didn't see any problem with just leaving it as
> ., but that was never really an option).

I don't get this whole Perl 6 redesign idea.  I think I'd rather use
Ruby than Perl 6.