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Differences Between Perl 5 and Perl 6
Everything is a reference! Nice!
whyever
on Oct 8, 2015
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Not really if you car about efficiency.
baudehlo
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The opposite is true. In Perl 5 passing a hash to a function requires mallocing a new shallow copy of that hash. In Perl 6 this would be the equivalent of passing a reference to the hash, which would only require mallocing a scalar.
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