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Just to clarify, what happens at Christmas is the first proper language release (as specified by the test suite) that will be accompanied by a conforming compil
by cygx 11y ago
Just to clarify, what happens at Christmas is the first proper language release (as specified by the test suite) that will be accompanied by a conforming compiler release, ie the main focus is still semantics, not 'production readiness'.
That said, Rakudo of today is more usable than Rakudo of days gone by, though there are still issues (my personal pet peeve: parsing speed; hopefully, automatic precompilation will land in the not-too-distant future, which, would mitigate the problem).
- codeflo 11y agoThanks for the clarification. So what does it mean to release "a language"? Is there a specification in addition to the test suite? Is the specification frozen from that point on? Or will it change, but only in backwards compatible ways?
- perlgeek 11y agoThe test suite is the actual specification; for the language release, it will be cleaned up of things that aren't yet ironed out. The design documents at http://design.perl6.org/ http://design.perl6.org/ are companion documents to the test suite, but where the two are in conflict, the test suite is authoritative. As for changes: backward incompatible changes will result in a new language version.