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Thanks 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

by codeflo 11y ago

Thanks 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 ago
The 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.