On 29/12/15 17:13, andy_b...@wiwb.uscourts.gov wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 01:57:57AM -0800, Darren Duncan wrote:
>>> On that note, are there going to be Perl 6 versions 6.x.y where {x,y} are
>> > integers? Will 6.0.0 be the first such one? -- Darren Duncan
>
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 Patrick Michaud wrote:
>> "Perl 6" is a language, not an implementation of that language. Think
> of "Perl 6" as being like "C", "C++", "Javascript", etc., where the
> language is separate from the (many) implementations of that language.
>
> I'm just a very ordinary perl hacker here, but Alex's point I think
> should be addressed. Most of us (i.e ordinary, un-language
> implementation geeks) are looking to download a Perl6 and if it's rakudo
> x.y.z, fine, but make that seem like something like perl.6.tar.gz. It
> would seem that gently introducing the complete separation w/ a little
> of Perl's famous (to me) "syntatic sugar" (meta-syntatic?) to help us
> getting started. Maybe the lower case distinction, "perl6.x.y" vs "Perl
> 6.c", would soothe both sides of the discussion.Yes, wouldn't it make sense to couple the rakudo release version to the language it implements? Thanks for all your replies. -- GPG Key: https://u2m.nl/data/webmind.asc GPG Fingerprint: 0506976E 234653B4 A628EC33 E23D16EE FCF154AE XMPP webm...@puscii.nl: D79970A8 7EC43E29 186D86BA 590F20F6 4C7930B8 XMPP webm...@laglab.org: 11E91112 091881F7 53EF6108 63C48543 C74D035C u2m.nl (exp: 08/04/2016) SHA256: C2:40:67:22:25:52:29:AF:DF:50:4E:2A:6B:32:6D:BC:5B:1E:CA:7D:52:3B:4C:4A:21:5D:C8:E5:AE:7D:1A:09 Puscii (exp: 04/03/2016) SHA256: F9:C7:B1:B7:90:6B:17:BF:84:93:93:7C:0F:B4:FD:BE:E3:C0:71:9D:83:01:ED:3A:96:FE:FC:82:9D:30:51:C9
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