The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 27 September 2006. Larry, Patrick, Allison, chromatic, and Nicholas attended. These are the minutes.
Larry:
- same old same old
- continued design discussions
- typing in test cases
- revising the regex test cases
Jesse:
- noticed two new interesting things
- a new sigil
Larry:
Jesse:
- the other thing was the change to S1 about what is and is not Perl 6
- "anything that passes the test suite"
Larry:
- the sigil is now just a unary operator
- you can use it in a declaration a zone marker, like a splat
- marks the following variable as gathering the capture
- unmaking it a sigil gives us the ability to use it as a unary operator
on a function call, like splat used to do
- hope not to go anywhere until November
- I've done enough traveling for a while
- oh, and today I turned 52
c:
- gave a talk at Seattle Perl Users Group
- included the Parrot extension API
- gave me the impetus to document some of what I dislike
- checked in some of my thoughts and new API suggestions
- no feedback yet
Allison:
- finished off the IO PDD I've been pondering for the past several weeks
- only had feedback from c, so we can probably implement it
- reviewing proposals since then
Jesse:
- Leo just pushed two more through
Allison:
- he and I just talked
- I suggested him putting them in the clip/ directory
- he's going to experiment with prototypes
Jesse:
- how parallelizable is the TGE refactoring?
Allison:
c:
- just getting the source code in the public repo helps
Allison:
- there are a lot of little tasks that when specified could work
- also would be nice to have a mini-language in rules
- Patrick thinks it could be a cut-down Perl 6
- I was thinking a Ruby-pidgin
Jesse:
- who can do this?
- or will we be blocking?
Allison:
- I'll post some ideas to the list
- hate to volunteer someone
Jesse:
- spent time talking to Zak Greant from Mozilla Foundation
- he's working on helping TPF
- also talked to Ovid and Bill from TPF regarding Perl 6 grants
