use v6-pugs;

now invokes the new Perl5-based Perl6 compiler:

use v6-pugs;
"hello, world".say;

$ perl -Ilib hello_world.pl

It can even be called from the command line:

$ perl -Ilib lib/v6.pm -e ' "hello, world".say; '

It still fails many of the sanity tests, as well as nearly all of the other tests under t/.

Comments

[snowstalker]

Coolness!

[grumpY!]

hi Flavio - how does this compare/contrast with using pugs? is this similar to p5 support in pugs? in my own pugs builds i haven't bothered with p5 embedding so i can't speak intelligently on this. anyway, thanks for the coll new tool!

[Audrey T]

grumpY: the P5 support in Pugs links in libperl, so we have two runtimes with different GC expectations; v6.pm solves this by compiling Perl 6 straight to Perl 5. It's still new, but it's very exciting. :)