Implementations until Perl 6.0.0 released?

[gvim]

I'm new to the Perl 6 lists so can someone tell me if the "implementations" of Perl 6 will eventually transition to a Perl 6.0.0 standard or will TIMTOWTDI apply to the language itself indefinitely?

gvim

[yary]

Roughly speaking, "will TIMTOWTDI apply to the language itself
indefinitely?" = yes.

Perl 5 is a language defined by an implementation, Perl 6 is a
language defined by a syntax and documentation. While there's no
predicting what will happen, as of now it looks like there will be a
few implementations of Perl 6- there's more than one now and nothing
to stop anyone with a good idea from starting another. On the other
hand, there are a few implementations that have already gone into
hibernation.

[Jonathan Worthington]

The implementations are aiming towards passing a common test suite[1]
and parsing Perl 6 using a standard grammar[2]. So yes, there's a common
aim. Of course, TIMTOWTDI applies to the language itself, but only
through pre-declared derivations, not "out of the box". :-)

/jnthn

[Jonathan Worthington]

Oops, forgot footnote linky:

[1] https://github.com/perl6/roast
[2] https://github.com/perl6/std/blob/master/STD.pm6

/jnthn