Re: Introduction to Synopses

2013-09-29 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 02:03:43AM +0800, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > Not wising to disagree with PM, but "|docs/feather/syn_index.html" > states on line 1:| > "The Synopsis documents are to be taken as the formal specification > for Perl 6 implementations" What follows is just my opinion, there's

Re: Introduction to Synopses

2013-09-29 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Not wising to disagree with PM, but "|docs/feather/syn_index.html" states on line 1:| "The Synopsis documents are to be taken as the formal specification for Perl 6 implementations" I have seen elsewhere, can't remember where, that the parser written by Larry is also considered a part of the s

Re: Introduction to Synopses

2013-09-29 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 01:28:48PM +0800, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > However, the Synopses are now primary specification and the > Apocalypses have only historical significance. Also there are more > Synopses than Apocalypses. One correction: The test suite ("roast") is the primary specification

Re: Introduction to Synopses

2013-09-29 Thread Moritz Lenz
Hi Richard, On 09/29/2013 07:28 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > Some suggestions about documentation. > > Originally the Synopses were implementation oriented sumaries of the > previous description base Apocalypses. That meant that the Synopses were > derivative and secondary to the Apocalypses