There's a key difference however.
While programming languages continue to evolve, the expectation is that a
production-complete Rakudo would always be a functional superset (or equal to)
the Perl 6 language specification which is current at the time.
So I think it is reasonable for Rakudo to actually implement ALL of 6.c before
too long, that it would catch up, and otherwise the intent is that Rakudo would
be leading on things that eventually become 6.d etc later.
The original question would be more accurately phrased, "Any idea when Rakudo
will release implementing the full Perl 6.c?"
-- Darren Duncan
On 2017-07-25 1:02 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
If that is the question, the answer is: the junction of “never" and “now".
Which would also be the answer for Pumpking Perl 5, or any other programming language
like ever. Because as long as people are using it, a programming language will evolve.
Much like any human endeavour I would say.
On 25 Jul 2017, at 09:42, Andrew Kirkpatrick <uberm...@gmail.com> wrote:
I assume the meaning is, roughly when is the implementation expected
to cover the entire spec?
Answering this is probably an exercise in futility, because its up to
the community and not anyone in particular.
On 25 July 2017 at 17:00, Elizabeth Mattijsen <l...@dijkmat.nl> wrote:
[snip]
Any idea when the full Rakudo will be released?
What do you mean by “the full Rakudo” ? Rakudo Star is the Rakudo compiler
release with a set of useful modules added (“batteries included”).
So you could argue that Rakudo doesn’t get fuller than with Rakudo Star!
