The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 30 January 2008. Larry, Allison,
Patrick, Will, Jerry, Jesse, Nicholas, and chromatic attended.
Larry:
- double-booked at work, so I'm kinda busy there
- still doing Perl 6 clarifications as requested
- starting firestorms that I've subsequently ignored on p6l
- some of the $work I'm doing is in the same mindspace as the longest token matcher
- might bootstrap me back into that
c:
- still working on the PMC PDD branch with Allison
- have a couple of bugs to fix there
- a couple of cleanups
- one minor optimization that will reduce (generated) code size somewhat
- another similar optimization to look at, should be more valuable
Patrick:
- unexpected family and house issues came up
- I'm back now
- the plan is to continue on last week's work
- mostly conversions to Rakudo to make it fit what Parrot expects (namspaces and the like)
Jerry:
- made some more spec tests pass with Rakudo
- added type constraint parsing
- thinking about a lot of things
- list context, return exceptions, Perl 6 docs
- very close to committing
perl6doc executable for Rakudo
Jesse:
- according to Damian's spec?
Jerry:
- according to Larry's grammar to POD6
- it's small
- it's a start for people who want to hack on the POD6 grammar
- had a discussion with Alias with respect to deterministic parsing
- there's a small patch to prevent Rakudo from running
BEGIN blocks
- not sure it's worth applying
Larry:
- see my latest diatribe on p6c
Patrick:
- grammar changes aren't implemented with
BEGIN blocks
Larry:
- I don't care if you add the switch
Jerry:
- is it worth adding something to prevent
BEGIN blocks from running
Larry:
- I don't see its value, but it shouldn't hurt anything
Patrick:
- just derive a new grammar that disables
BEGIN blocks and use that
- shouldn't have to do anything in the compiler to make that happen
Allison:
- spent some time on Mac OS X compilation problems
- seem to have a solution for that
- still working on the PMC implementation
- giving a talk at Linux.conf.au on the Pynie implementation
- it's interesting poking in the guts of NQP and PCT and comparing that to the old PGE/TGE approach
Will:
- my RT viewer is pretty much done
- just need to get an RT instance to play with extracting data in a timely fashion
- working on the Mac port for Parrot, hope to get 0.5.2 in MacPorts in a couple of weeks
- should be simple to keep it updated from then on
Nicholas:
- Rafael wants a lot more test cases for
switch in 5.10.1
Patrick:
- we're looking for hints about how to do list context parsing in STD.pm
Larry:
- particle and I talked about that the other day
Patrick:
- that's the next big thing we're missing
- I don't want to hack something together if there's something better in STD.pm
Jesse:
c:
- I really would love more platform coverage
- a few patches lately that need attention on something more than 32-bit Linux with GCC
- any version of OpenSolaris, just about any BSD would be good, Mac OS X, Windows
Patrick:
- we can set up VMs
- ask people to create their own VM images
c:
- that would work
- ask for freely-redistributable VM images
- and then get non-redistributable OSes to submit to the smoke farm
Patrick:
- I can post that in my journal
- or post a request on Perlbuzz
