As jrockway said, Perl 5 and Perl 6 development is mostly decoupled. I write some code for Perl 6 compilers, and now and then contribute a (most often doc) patch to Perl 5.
Both move along nicely, and Perl 5 gets many inspirations from Perl 6 - not the least of it is a time-based release schedule, which is why you see many more releases of Perl 5 in the last two years.
Both move along nicely, and Perl 5 gets many inspirations from Perl 6 - not the least of it is a time-based release schedule, which is why you see many more releases of Perl 5 in the last two years.