Changeset 9980 for docs/Perl6/FAQ

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04/17/06 15:06:22 (3 years ago)
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audreyt
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* FUD.pod: moderation is good, in moderation.

(gaal noted inconsistency in the first answer about

whether Perl 6 has many more operators than Perl 5 or not.)

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    2626=head2 Perl 6 has too many operators! 
    2727 
    28 Perl 6 has a few more operators than Perl 5 had. This doesn't automatically 
    29 make the language harder to learn.  Many operators are there to make your life 
    30 much easier.  Many tedious and error prone loops are no longer needed, and 
    31 there are operators that are very easy to learn that let you avoid constructs 
    32 that are hard to learn. 
    33  
    34 The number of operators has greatly increased because of some much needed 
     28Compared to Perl 5, Perl 6 has a few more operators -- and a few I<less> 
     29precedence levels. This doesn't automatically make the language harder to 
     30learn. Many operators are there to make your life much easier. Many tedious 
     31and error prone loops are no longer needed, and there are operators that are 
     32very easy to learn that let you avoid constructs that are hard to learn. 
     33 
     34The number of operators has increased mostly because of some much needed 
    3535separation. The single bitwise-OR operator C<|> is now three different 
    3636operators: C<~|>, C<+|> and C<?|>, operating on strings, numbers and booleans