At 8:03 AM -0700 9/4/02, Erik Steven Harrison wrote: > >-- > >On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 07:45:37 > Sean O'Rourke obviated: >To me a language's grammar, once >>defined, shouldn't do a lot of changing, internally or otherwise. When >>was the last time C's grammar changed? Or even gcc's implementation of >>it? > >Granted . . .mostly. Were talking about Perl, the >language designed to evolve. How much did the Perl >grammer (even if there was no definitive one in the >Perl 6 lex-on-the-fly sense) change between Perl 1 and >Perl 5? Perl 5 and Perl 5.8?
Perl's grammar didn't change much between 5.00 and 5.8. Once we ship the final grammar, we'll maintain it in a backward-compatible way, and document the places you can count on it to wedge in changes. Then we maintain it as long as Larry says so. -- Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk