The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 10 September 2008. Larry, Allison, Jerry, Patrick, Nicholas, and chromatic attended.
Allison:
- debugging the MMD branch
- we've dgone from 900 failing tests to 47 in the past two days
- working my way through failing tests has had a compounding effect
- chromatic has been helping
- I shifted the nastiest failure from a termination in the middle of nasty code with no warnings to a segfault
- and he fixed that
- we're very close to merging the branch
c:
- probably after the next release
Allison:
Jerry:
c:
Allison:
- this was a PGE problem
- it pretended it was successful
- it output nothing
- it was so much easier to debug then
Nicholas:
Patrick:
- I can't tell you how many times I had PGE output nothing
- zero?!
Allison:
- we're having a Parrot developer day in November in Moutain View
Jerry:
- finally had time to do a little development this week
- then I had hardware trouble, and couldn't commit anything
Larry:
- between my day job and my grandson visiting over the last week, not a lot of spare time
- took several hundred Parrot-specific tests that Moritz put into t/spec
- fudged them all
- went through several permutations of how to write the tests
- realized that there was a missing operator
- no way to do a pattern object for smart matching that's equivalent to a junctional and but guarantees the order of evaluation
- that's almost exactly what a
where infix operator would do
- a type on the left and a constraint on the right of it
- you want to test against a subtype name and a constraint in order
- lots of places want that sort of pattern
- we had no easy way to express that short of defining a subset type, which is hard to use for one op
- or 700 ops in that file
- there's now a
where operator that parses just like the junctional &, but in guaranteed order
- otherwise just random spec cleanups
- answering questions
- lots of people thinking about the nature of lists and iterations now
- did a little catchup on email on p6l
- woefully behind on my own personal email
- doubtless there are bugs in that
- oh, ended up adding a Perl 5 grammar to STD
- copied and pasted the Perl 6 regex rules and cut out two thirds of them
- maybe just need to borrow a test from the Perl 5 suite
Patrick:
- PGE uses one
- just uses the test file directly
Larry:
Patrick:
- it doesn't use the
perl5: flag
- PGE doesn't understand that flag
- it'll fail miserably
Patrick:
- added code to Rakudo to go to standalone PIR
- generates PIR that you can run directly from Parrot
c:
- that should help you help me
Patrick:
- that should help a lot of people help you help me
- updated the
Failure type in Parrot
- warns if you use it while undefined
- originally I put it in to die fatally
- that broke the test suite
- a few people are going through the test suite to fix the evaluation of undef Failures
- created a couple of functions in Rakudo to make it easier
- finished my final report for the Mozilla Foundation
- Richard and Jesse are happy with that
- I'll publish that later today or early tomorrow
- that grant is over now
- trying to figure out list interpolation and how things fit together
- Rakudo has some nasty bugs there
- I feel like I'm missing something there
- it seems like there's another type in there
c:
- added a new feature to Rakudo last week
- fixed a couple of bugs to get a lot more tests passing
- keeping up with the incoming patch and bug queue
- Christoph is good at helping
- also trying to fix bugs and help the MMD branch along
