Aug. 23, 2001
9:52 a.m.
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 05:17:12PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
Seriously, we've a reasonably comprehensive test suite now with perl 5, and a very large code base with expected behavior to draw on to test the conversion. Much of the perl 5->perl 6 transition is strictly syntactic.
Also don't forget that we have a prototype of Perl 6 which implements pretty much everything that Larry has specified in Apocalypses 1 and 2. It is a patch of nearly 200 lines to the current Perl 5 interpreter. We're not changing *that* drastically, folks.