The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 25 October 2006. The attendees were Larry, Nicholas, and chromatic. Damian sent in his notes later. Here are the minutes.
Larry:
- have decided not to go to Brazil
- looking for someone who can fly to Brazil on short notice and give a
keynote
- nothing much in the way of design work this week
c:
- any sense if Pugs will hit 6.28 soon?
Larry:
- depends on how the Brazil hackathon goes
- could be a couple of weeks if they're careful
c:
- I finished up the basic proof of concept of Parrot::Embed
- GC/refcounting was a little hairy
- I think I have it correct
- still have the temptation to create a vtable pointer for magic on SVs in
Perl 5
Nicholas:
- have you had any more time to work on your Perl 6 program at work?
- how is it going?
Larry:
- it seems like it refactors nicely
- I've mutated it around changing specs
- it seems like a language that's easy to refactor
- I like that
c:
Larry:
- an OO tree
- doing recursive visitation
c:
- roles make the Visitor pattern almost unnecessary
- especially runtime roles
Nicholas:
- I was just thinking the Parrot tree grammar thing
c:
- me too
- seems like getting a better language for within TGE rules is the near
term goal
- that probably means getting enough of objects and classes specified so
Parrot can support this easily
- there's currently a big question about how to instantiate objects based
on class names
- there's a namespace issue regarding that
- that might let us bootstrap Perl 6 or a similar language to that point
- that might let us make implementing other languages easier too
- that might push Parrot to fix things that we need
Damian:
- Just finished the last of my scheduled training events for 2006
- Taking a few days off after the hectic last three months
- Should have more time hereafter
- Still reworking the documentation synopsis and accompanying Perl 5
parser implementation
- Will raise one or two minor issues on the sixperl list in the next day
or two
- Once those are ironed out, will post a second draft which can probably
go in the repository
- Will also upload the prototype parser to CPAN
- Thereafter, may work on a Perl 6 implementation as well
