Re: Multiple implementations of Perl 6

2005-12-24 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 11:25:43PM +1100, Andrew Savige wrote: : Apologies if I'm Mr Magoo, but I did a bit of a search on this just now, and : uncovered little more than a pithy quote from Piers Cawley in: : : http://dev.perl.org/perl6/list-summaries/2005/p6summary.2005-07-05.html : : asserting

Re: Multiple implementations of Perl 6

2005-12-24 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On 12/24/05, Andrew Savige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm curious to know if the Perl 6 design team fully endorse a change from the > Perl 5 "the (single) implementation *is* the specification" model to a > "multiple implementations are good, m'kay, but from a single (detailed and > precise) spec

Multiple implementations of Perl 6

2005-12-24 Thread Andrew Savige
Apologies if I'm Mr Magoo, but I did a bit of a search on this just now, and uncovered little more than a pithy quote from Piers Cawley in: http://dev.perl.org/perl6/list-summaries/2005/p6summary.2005-07-05.html asserting that "Multiple implementations are good, m'kay". If anyone can point me to