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Perl 6 Design Minutes for 12 May 2010

chromatic on 2010-06-16T01:47:02

The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 12 May 2010. Larry, Allison, Patrick, and Will attended.

Larry:

  • clarified usage of brackets around infixes
  • added various 128-bit types to the spec; we might make them arbitrarily extensible via role
  • at least LLVM could support this, even to non-powers-of-two sizes
  • modernized the paleolithic grammatical category description in S02
  • STD now uses double-quote rules for interpolating @foo[] into regex
  • STD now gives better message on 1__3
  • added the specced 128-bit types to CORE.setting
  • added minmax function to CORE.setting
  • implemented circumfix:«X Y» as grammar derivation
  • currently only allows a < >> inside
  • now also recognizes foofix:("\x[face]") and foofix:("\c[YOUR CHARACTER HERE]") without actually evaluating
  • playing with factoring yaml out of gimme5, since viv is not likely to go that route.
  • mostly just answered a lot of questions on irc
  • egged people on about concurrency issues

Patrick:

  • thought on handling closures properly
  • have a solution, just need some time to implement
  • discussion on changes to CodeString
  • work on compiler toolkit to avoid CodeString, using StringBuilder instead where possible, in PCT, NQP, and rakudo. Pretty easy, no downstream projects block on a deprecation issue
  • after that, lists
  • also been answering questions on interactive mode (REPL) for rakudo et al. (the issue with losing lexicals)

Allison:

  • resolved the git conversation pretty well (for Parrot's repo migration)
  • worked on a pure PEG parser (following the paper), straight PIR, single day; now self-parsing. Interesting project, is lightweight. currently has memoization, but that might not be right for us because of backtracking. With some more effort, could probably handle EBNF form (useful for python)
  • could be setup for developer status for Debian which will improve our packaging status for Debian and Ubuntu

Will:

  • Parrot CodeString performance improvements
  • we're definitely faster in branch, but some feedback from pmichaud should help us clean up the API a bit as well, look for those to hit trunk in the next few days
  • Parrot makefile deps cleanup