While it is true that the Perl 6 design is still floating around a bit, the switch from "->" to "." is pretty much engraved in stone.

If you really want to keep track of what's going on with perl 6, you should probably be at least skimming the perl 6 mailing list weekly summaries.

You can also peruse the "Perl 6 Design Meeting Minutes" over at use.perl.org, but you should be forewarned that it's not likely to give you the warm fuzzies about the progress of Perl 6. For example:

• 11 October 2006

  Larry:

  * only redesigning the basic syntax of the language

  * other than that...

• October 06, 2006

  Larry:

  * getting caught up with work after my Europe trip

  * attempting to use Perl 6 for some of that

  * Pugs is not terribly fast at that, so it's not entirely practical

  * getting some experience with programming Perl 6

  * it's kinda cool

  * but in spots I think "who thought up this?"

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  in thread OO in Perl 6 by Scott7477

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