Re: perl6 is a version of perl5

[email protected] (Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason)
Newsgroups perl.cpan.workers
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 22:23, Tim Bunce <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:29:21AM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
>>
>> But perl6 is not a version of perl5.
>
> I know this is a contentious issue but, with all dure respect, I disagree.

FWIW I thought the now-deleted 'language' key in META 2.0 sidestepped
this issue nicely. It placed that info on the top level rather than in
the bit that requires a given perl version.

Perl 6 isn't Perl 5 just like Clojure isn't Java. Just because it has
(or in the case of Perl 6, might have) a very well working glue layer
that doesn't mean they're the same language.

But that's just splitting hairs.
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