On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Moritz Lenz <mor...@faui2k3.org> wrote: >> Ultimately the Perl 6 specification says that version numbers are >> supposed to be able to manage these sorts of issues for us; i.e., if >> a program says C<use v6.0.2>, then it gets all of the semantics of >> exactly version 6.0.2, regardless of any deprecations or changes that >> may have happened since then. >> >> However, I don't believe Rakudo is yet at a place where we can provide >> this level of compatibility, so we need some other management policies in >> place until we do get there. > > > Agreed; we aren't that far along yet.
<backseat-driver> Not far along enough in the spec to promise forward compatibility; not too soon to design/try out clean implementations for supporting C<use v6.0.2> in the future. </backseat-driver>
