Smylers wrote:
Richard Hainsworth writes:
> When does the specification of perl6 come to an end?
At a guess: when it's implemented.
Many of the recent changes have been made by Larry in response to his
trying to write the grammar, and encountering problems.
With all due respect:
Once the grammar is written, what's left to do in terms of finalizing
the Perl 6.0 specification? Surely we don't need to wait for the Perl
6 implementors to finish their work before declaring 6.0 to be fully
specified (and getting on with the business of working on 6.1
features)? Admittedly, the best way to know if something is
implementable is to implement it; but I doubt that it's the only way.
There are still some 'hey wouldn't it be great if ...' threads on this
list, proposing brand new features, but nowhere near as many as there
used to be. And at least some of us are trying to discourage such
things, hoping to deflect them away from taking Larry's time away from
getting finished synthesizing what we already have -- especially in the
case of things which could easily be provided by a module.
I submit that you'll have even more luck discouraging such things if
you can give a reasonable and believable timeline as to when the 6.0
spec will be ready and perl 6.1 features can start being considered.
--
Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang
