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Re:Larry Wall's Perl 6 Release Talk [video] by codeflo on Saturday November 14, 2015 @08:31AM (#10565593)
Thanks for the clarification. So what does it mean to release "a language"? Is there a specification in addition to the test suite? Is the specification frozen from that point on? Or will it change, but only in backwards compatible ways?
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Re:Larry Wall's Perl 6 Release Talk [video] by perlgeek on Saturday November 14, 2015 @08:45AM (#10565633)
The test suite is the actual specification; for the language release, it will be cleaned up of things that aren't yet ironed out.

The design documents at http://design.perl6.org/ are companion documents to the test suite, but where the two are in conflict, the test suite is authoritative.

As for changes: backward incompatible changes will result in a new language version.

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