The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 28 January 2009. Larry, Allison,
Patrick, Will, Jerry, and chromatic attended.
Larry:
- still working through various operator questions
- thinking about a better model for preventing unfortunate backtrackings
- current commit model is too simple-minded
- otherwise thinking about various questions people are asking me
- they're on the backburner, mulling in my subconscious
- heading up to Seattle this next week
Allison:
- cleaned up library loading
- generated Debian packages
- trying to get Parrot 1.0 into Debian
- working on documentation, especially
make html
- decided to try a POD parser in Parrot
- in PGE, a full POD parser takes about four hours
- wrote the PCT AST nodes, but didn't write the action rules
- seems like kjs took a stab at those
- merged in half of the STRING refactors
- resolved a handful of tickets last night
Will:
- finished the release manager document through May
- ripping out a lot of deprecated items again
- seems like our list gets longer every release
- we really need to make a push to rip it out in February
- working on Tcl, on and off
- all of the details are on the partcl blog
Patrick:
- mostly making plans to move Rakudo to its new repository
- should have that all decided in the next few hours
- will make that happen, so that Parrot will make its move tomorrow with no trouble
- suspect that we'll work on that over the next couple of days
- responding to some questions
- have a new laptop, which is 33% faster at building Parrot than my desktop
- getting ready for Frozen Perl next week
Jerry:
- added portable NaN/Inf support to Parrot and Rakudo
- the 60 or so spectests which failed on non-Linux platforms now pass
- all tests pass for Parrot and Rakudo on Windows
- working a little on the infrastructure
- trying to get e-mail to Trac installed
- opened 14 tickets yesterday
- challenging others to join in on closing them
- S19 could use Larry's review
c:
- working on the support, release, and deprecation policies
- will submit that draft for review this afternoon
- have a couple of bugs to fix
- will close as many tickets as possible
Jerry:
- the Open Group's C99 model suggests
inf or INF
- should we follow that or the dynamic language model of
Inf?
Larry:
Patrick:
- the Open Group says when you parse a string, it's case insensitive
- when you produce a string, it's all uppercase or lowercase
Larry:
- Perl 6 doesn't care what other standards groups say
Patrick:
- if we stringify infinity, we get
Inf
- if we numify
inf, do we get zero or infinity?
Larry:
