On 2015-12-29 1:58 PM, simran wrote:
* ParrotVM seems to be pretty much dead? (this is not a trolling question, it
appears from certain emails on this list in the past few days that this seems to
be an opinion, i'm just taking it at face value...)
On one hand I just interpreted this as ParrotVM
The understanding of what is going on has certainly become an order or
magnitude harder.
I personally feel that the way the naming has been done has failed on the
"keep easy things easy" part.
The C vs GCC example by someone was a good one... C being a specification,
and GCC being the compiler wi
Thanks for all the responses, and I agree with them.
At the same time, I think I was misunderstood, so I will try and clarify my
position now.
1. I fully understand the distinction between a version of the Perl 6 language
spec, or of components thereof (such as of grammar, standard library,
I also was agreeing with Alex's critique of 6.c and then understanding
Patrick's reply.
"Semantic Versioning" and Perl 5's versioning scheme is so thoroughly
ingrained in me now that 6.c looked like a pre-production release
number, and I was waiting for 6.0.0. After reading the explanation, it
now
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
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
This was the topic of my FOSDEM talk last year, and then again at YAPC::NA.
"Perl 6" is a lang
As this is a frequent answer I encounter when having a look at Perl 6,
maybe it's worth having a look at it's message:
There will be no Perl 6.
There will be no Perl 6 by definition, because Perl 6 is only a
specification. You cannot program a specification.
Let's call this statement "specimplexp
I think this depends on exactly what you mean by "release".
As others have already said in this thread...
6.c is the current standard for perl and is defined by that branch for
the test suite. The next standard will be called 6.d but it's
probably some way off.
6.c will comprise of a number of
Hi Darren
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
The next Perl 6 release will be called 6.d. Hopefully it will take a
while before that happens.
I hope there will be a lot of Rakudo releases in t
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 2015-12-29 12:51 AM, Tobias Leich wrote:
Hi, the first official Perl 6 (the language) release is not called 6.0.0, it is
called 6.c.
And this is what has be
Hi, the first official Perl 6 (the language) release is not called
6.0.0, it is called 6.c.
And this is what has been shipped with the Rakudo compiler release 2015.12.
Cheers, Tobias
Am 27.12.2015 um 20:33 schrieb webmind:
Hiya,
I'm a bit confused, there is a major release for Perl 6, but I k
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