Perl 6 has always had a goal of interacting with other languages. When Larry Wall announced the project in 2000, he talked about translate with 95-percent accuracy 95 percent of the scripts. He wanted a way to run Perl 5 from Perl 6.
And, with Inline::Perl5, you can do that. Most notably, you can load Perl 5 modules:
use v6; use Inline::Perl5; use Business::ISBN:from<Perl5>; my $isbn = Business::ISBN.new( '9781491954324' ); say $isbn.as_isbn10.as_string;
In the authority section of the module, I specified from<Perl5>
. To make this work, you need to compile perl
as specified in the Inline::Perl5 README.md. You need a perl
compiled with -Duseshrplib
; I had to compile a new perl
but that wasn’t a big deal.
If you are using a recent Rakudo and you’ve already installed Inline::Perl5, that module loads implicitly:
use v6; use Business::ISBN:from<Perl5>; my $isbn = Business::ISBN.new( '9781491954324' ); say $isbn.as_isbn10.as_string;