At 03:08 PM 12/6/00 -0500, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
>On Wed, 06 Dec 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > Well, until Larry releases the spec, just about everything else is frozen,
> > though we can certainly expand the PDD stuff to include the standard
> > library, documentation, and QA stuff. (It seems a tad premature to be
> > proposing language changes when we neither have a final language spec nor
> > an implementation of that spec...) PDDs don't have to be all internal--I
> > changed the name to deal with the confusion with the IETF's RFCs. (We were
> > fast creeping up on the active RFC range)
>
>Understood. One other quick question. Are the PDDs expect to go terminal at
>the delivery of Perl 6, or should the active PDDs continue to evolve and
>govern Perl 6 maintenance as well? (If that makes any sense.)
I want them to continue, though whether they do depends on who has the
magic sucker hat once things go final. It's my intent that anyone who wants
to get complete documentation for X (where X could be the parser API, or
the vtable API, or the guaranteed behaviour of the GC, or the PerlIO API
and required behaviour) can grab the PDD covering it and be set.
Something, more or less, like the IETF standards RFCs, only with revisions
of each PDD rather than a half zillion "supercedes or upgrades" RFCs.
Dan
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