Today, our Mad Golfer asavige (btw, check out his Saturn obfu if you had not done so) highlighted a weird conflict between lazy list semantics and eager filehandle closing, sparking an ongoing thread to clear up the semantic of = and COW issues. It's nice to see this sort of design problems uncovered early into the implementation, which is why I started Pugs in the first place. :)
In other news, just after 6.0.11's release, obra popped in #perl6, acquired committership, and immediately began refactoring Test.pm to eliminate duplicate code.
During the refactoring, obra uncovered that $?CALLER::CALLER::CALLER:: is not yet implemented, but I was too tired to do that, so I just mumbled a line number in Eval.hs and went to bed. When I wake up, a SubEthaEdit-powered team has already implemented it correctly! Much kudos for nothingmuch, lightstep, lumi, larsen and theorbtwo for successfully deciphering my klugy haskell, and lightstep for subsequently prettifying with a clever use of callCC.
Today is another day of test-driven developments with very fast turnarounds:
x= etc; I implemented them along with Y= and its unicode form.
| was flattening both sides, which is very bad. Fixed!
=> to autoquote the left-side identifier; I promptly coded it in.
?? :: precedence bug, which I don't yet have answers of.
++ doesn't yet work on array or hash elements; this is an outstanding TODO penting ITypes, which I hope to get around to do soon.
uc lc ucfirst lcfirst; thanks to the fact that Haskell's
Char is Unicode by default, those primitives automagically do the Right Thing to unicode literals.
pugsmonk keeps sending bug reports via nopaste bot, most of which (eg. pretty-printing of mutable variables) are promptly resolved.
On the p6c list, Matt Campbell asked some excellent questions for starting to port Perl 5 modules to Pugs, and I tried to answer him. Darren Duncan, the pioneer of porting the Locale::KeyedText module, accepted Alias's call for porter to p6ify Alrogithm::Dependency in the Pugs trunk. Darren++!
Finally, Ingy outlined some thoughts on building FreePAN as a subversion-mirror based distribution network, for distributing Pugs modules, more details will become available in the days leading up to YAPC::Taipei. Stay tuned!