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What Corion said :)

ANSI certification serves to guarantee that a certain vendor's implementation of a programming language contains a defined minimum core functionality. As there is only one vendor developing and "selling" Perl, there's no need for an ANSI standard.

Ok, so some groups (for example, Activestate) add extra functionality to their Perl distributions (like the Win32 modules) but that would fall outside the ANSI certification anyway (as it's extra to the standard distribution).

The functionality of a given version of Perl is defined in the perldoc that comes with that version. No further definition is required.

Or am I missing something?

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In reply to Re: Ansi Perl by davorg
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