>>>>> "Y" == Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz / ruby-lang.org> writes: Y> Yes. I've felt Perl6 (and Python) coming closer to Ruby, probably a Y> coincidence. I don't think this is a coincidence. To give another example in a part totally unrelated : if I've well understood regexp variables in perl ($1, $2, ...) will become PAD variables (in the future version of perl). This is something very similar to what do ruby actually. ruby better than perl for regexp (it's a joke :-))) Guy Decoux