# from Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
# on Thursday 15 April 2010 15:48:
>On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 22:23, Tim Bunce <tim.bu...@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:29:21AM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
>>>> It's also the wrong place to encode version information.
>>> But perl6 is not a version of perl5.
>>
>> I know this is a contentious issue but, with all dure respect, I
>> disagree.
>
>Perl 6 isn't Perl 5 just like Clojure isn't Java. Just because it has
>(or in the case of Perl 6, might have) a very well working glue layer
>that doesn't mean they're the same language.
Indeed. It is a completely different language. For that reason, I
think the file extension distinction on the distribution package is a
good idea.
One could say that 6 vs 5 is just a "major version" and that would be
true too, but does anyone want to discuss perl 4 modules? So at least
in that sense, the major version is a significantly different language
and the change goes beyond ordinary "version information".
And even so, perl6 is not a version of perl5.
--Eric
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