The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 16 June 2010. Larry, Allison, Patrick, Will, and chromatic attended.
Larry:
- documented
TOP (again), and explained how parsing is initiated and how it actually works
- series operator (
...) now picks a monotonic function when using single characters as endpoints
- STD can now catch duplicates involving
protos as well as onlys
- STD no longer advises removal of parens on spaceless
sub() declaration
- mostly advised sorear and pmichaud
- Stefan is finishing the boostrap of the STD parser
- also working on adding a parallel NFA and DFA engine
- no, he doesn't want to generate all the states in advance
- it works faster lazily
Allison:
- working on chroot environments with something more secure than chroot
- relevant to building Parrot packages
- looking at some bugs for Will
Patrick:
- Rakudo developers decided not to make extra special effort to make a June release of Rakudo Star
- the calendar works against us
- the new date for the release is July 29
- we're I comfortable with hitting that target
- we won't be happy with the results of moving heaven and earth to release in June
- there are lots of advantages
- one disadvantage is not having Rakudo Star at YAPC::NA
- one big advantage is using the supported Parrot 2.6 release as the basis
- I'll write a post outlining the plan in the next couple of days
- otherwise working on lists and interators in Perl 6 and Rakudo
- after deciding to make iterators immutable, Larry and I realized that solves many problems
- everything works out as plain as day after that
- very happy with that design
- the incorrect assumptions of the old model were pervasive
- replacing the old pieces is taking a while, which is no surprise
- this approach feels right though
- the new branch does things no previous version could do
- slices work much better, for example
- metaoperators work properly
- map is lazy
- slurpy arguments in lists are lazy by default
- no weird binding or action at a distance problems
- plenty of changes to
Associative and Positional roles
- those are now super clean and may be lazy
- more features work
- ~30 failing tests (not test files, just tests) now, ~500 last night
- most of the current failures are minor
- will try to merge the branch before the release
- replacing lots of ugly code with fewer lines of elegant code
- Jonathan and others have worked on lots of other pieces
- adding plenty of new features
- looking forward to tomorrow's release
c:
- editing the Rakudo book
- moving the Rakudo release date may let us have a printed book available about the same time
- depends on how much there is left to write
