That hasn't been true for a while. Within minutes of announcing Raku nearly 21 years ago Larry answered a question about it from the audience[1]: > Question:

That hasn't been true for a while. Within minutes of announcing Raku nearly 21 years ago Larry answered a question about it from the audience[1]: > Question: Will Raku have specs ...? > Larry: ... develop the real regression tests into a validation test ... then we actually have a machine-readable spec. And to me that’s actually a lot more important than what the verbiage on the human readable thing says. It took years before folk caught up with Larry's intent, but the regression test suite has been called "roast" (Repository Of All Specification Tests) for something like 15 years and what you're calling "the 'specification'" was renamed to "the 'speculation'" around the same time. [1] https://www.perl.com/pub/2000/10/23/soto2000.html https://www.perl.com/pub/2000/10/23/soto2000.html