At 8:03 AM -0700 9/4/02, Erik Steven Harrison wrote:
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>On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 07:45:37
> Sean O'Rourke obviated:
>To me a language's grammar, once
>>defined, shouldn't do a lot of changing, internally or otherwise. When
>>was the last time C's grammar changed? Or even gcc's implementation of
>>it?
>
>Granted . . .mostly. Were talking about Perl, the
>language designed to evolve. How much did the Perl
>grammer (even if there was no definitive one in the
>Perl 6 lex-on-the-fly sense) change between Perl 1 and
>Perl 5? Perl 5 and Perl 5.8?
Perl's grammar didn't change much between 5.00 and 5.8.
Once we ship the final grammar, we'll maintain it in a
backward-compatible way, and document the places you can count on it
to wedge in changes. Then we maintain it as long as Larry says so.
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Dan
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