$ perlmogrify my-script.pl

Perl::ToPerl6 is now available on CPAN. This is the final name for the previously-mentioned Perl::Mogrify tool, with the goal of being able to transliterate (not translate, subtle distinction there) working Perl5 code into compilable Perl6.

Please ignore most of the documentation aside from the README file, as this application is heavily cribbed (read: mostly copied) from L (Thanks Jeffrey.) This tool is meant mostly for module authors, so please don't expect (yet!) a production-quality idiomatic Pe…

Over the last few days I've put the Perl::Critic framework to a new use, that of upgrading old perl5 code to shiny new Perl6. The result of this is currently residing on https://github.com/drforr/Perl-Mogrify as it's not quite ready for CPAN yet. There's quite a bit of gruntwork to do replacing the existing Perl::Critic documentation, and I want to add a few more features, but the list of what it converts over is pretty extensive.

(I'm aware of Util's Blue-Tiger project and in fact cribbed some code from it, but I wanted the ability …