On 25 July 2017 at 16:23, Darren Duncan <dar...@darrenduncan.net> wrote: > 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.
The Perl 6 language specification is the test suite. So if the test suite passes then it's complete! Which is of course a tautology. > 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. Which missing parts are you concerned about? > The original question would be more accurately phrased, "Any idea when > Rakudo will release implementing the full Perl 6.c?" It's a volunteer effort so this happens whenever someone who cares enough about missing parts and who has the time and skills to implement does it. S
