The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 07 April 2010. Larry, Allison, Patrick, Jerry, Will, and chromatic attended.
Larry:
- clarified that object identity from
WHICH may not be a mundane value type
- instead object id's are of type
ObjAt to avoid type name collisions.
- rewrote misleading description of "thunk"
- made some clarifications of the desired semantics of buffers
- Buf is primarily a role for dealing compact, unsigned integer arrays in a stringy way
- but a Buf may be instantiated with other numeric types as well.
- removed bogus mentions of Buf8, Buf16, Buf32; only the native buf types are sized that way
- STD now actually parses the insides of
tr/// and carps about malformed ranges
- labels are now stored symbolically as constants rather than types
- so no coercion routine is added for the name, so it doesn't collide with the function namespace
- labels are now constants with a unique label type to prevent confusion with ordinary constants
- module subcompilation now reports the name of the file it's compiling
- improved various error messages regarding
foreach, !!op, $!{}, EOF, and missing punctuation after blocks
Allison:
- worked on line number reporting in HLLs
- no ticket to go on, no good examples
- didn't make much progress, but didn't have much time
- sounds like Christoph and chromatic are working on it
- might look at TT #389
c:
- you're welcome to it!
- let me know if you have questions; it's close
Allison:
- no travel plans for the next couple of months
- should have a lot more Parrot time
- probably time to consider another big project
- probably GC related
Patrick:
- updated the progress graph last night
- up to date as of yesterday
- Rakudo's passing over 30,000 tests, which is great
Jerry:
- we have 27 mentors signed up for GSoC
- a dozen student proposals have come in
- the admission period ends Friday, so I expect at least a handful more
- looks like a good year for proposals
- trying to keep on track of Rakudo development
- trying to be a go-between for Rakudo and Parrot
- seems like it's helping Rakudo as Parrot addresses issues that come up
c:
- Vasily and I fixed the Rakudo performance regression
- we're going to experiment with immutable strings in a branch
- expect some notable performance improvements there
- also worked on the plan to fix line number reporting
- need a test harness to help identify problems and avoid regressions
- learned my lesson last time I worked on that....
Larry:
- I cringe every time I hear "line numbers"
- I like what Clang does about highlighting the arguments to functions
- it'd be nice if we can do similar
c:
- that'd require more changes to Parrot, but it's doable
Larry:
- I just want people to bear it in mind
Allison:
- there's no reason we can't have richer annotations
- our first step is making sure the information we provide them (or they ask for) is accurate
- is it time to have another big development meeting for Parrot?
- the release is coming up
Jerry:
