Re: Perl 6 timeline?

2004-02-26 Thread Robin Berjon
chromatic wrote: With Apocalypse 12 (soon!) I'm sorry but this just begs for the question: (vaguely) how soon? :) I get all excited whenever I hear Perl and six in the same sentence, and it's building up to be unbearable ;) -- Robin Berjon

Re: Perl 6 timeline?

2004-02-26 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 12:57, Simon Cozens wrote: 1. Larry gets help in writing these (various degrees of delegation). I think we've been through this idea, no? I dropped off the face of the earth for a bit... sorry if I am re-hashing something old I did not see anything in the archives, but

Re: Perl 6 timeline?

2004-02-26 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 07:30:05PM +0100, Robin Berjon wrote: : chromatic wrote: : With Apocalypse 12 (soon!) : : I'm sorry but this just begs for the question: (vaguely) how soon? :) Well, here's the rough outline. I still have to do some writing on multiple dispatch, overloading, and

Re: Perl 6 timeline?

2004-02-26 Thread Mark J. Reed
chromatic With Apocalypse 12 (soon!) RobinBerjon how soon? :) LarryWall here's the rough outline [indicating that it's pretty soon indeed] Cool! But now I'm a little confused - what happened to Apocalypses 8 through 11? :) -Mark

Re: Perl 6 timeline?

2004-02-26 Thread chromatic
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 11:50, Mark J. Reed wrote: Cool! But now I'm a little confused - what happened to Apocalypses 8 through 11? :) They were: - 8, References - 9, Data Structures - 10, Packages - 11, Modules Since 12, Objects is more important (and covers

Re: Perl 6 timeline?

2004-02-26 Thread Bennett Todd
2004-02-26T14:26:47 Larry Wall: Well now, I remember Perl 0, sonny. Does that still exist anywhere? I don't have anything older than perl 1. They don't make 'em like they used to... That they don't. On Bent Linux (my own distro, based on uClibc instead of glibc) I get ; ls -l perl1 perl5.8.1

Re: Perl 6 timeline?

2004-02-26 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Wall) writes: It's the coherence that I can't delegate, and if I tried to, we would certainly end up with Second System Syndrome Done Wrong, instead of Done Right. You know, it's statements like this that make it hard for even me to be curmudgeonly. E7 is coming

Re: Perl 6 timeline?

2004-02-26 Thread chromatic
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 13:42, Simon Cozens wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Wall) writes: It's the coherence that I can't delegate, and if I tried to, we would certainly end up with Second System Syndrome Done Wrong, instead of Done Right. You know, it's statements like this that make it

Re: Perl 6 timeline?

2004-02-26 Thread Uri Guttman
SC == Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SC [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bennett Todd) writes: 2004-02-26T14:26:47 Larry Wall: Well now, I remember Perl 0, sonny. Does that still exist anywhere? SC If nowhere else, Larry's got a copy IN HIS HEAD. :) better than a copy in his

Re: Perl 6 timeline?

2004-02-26 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bennett Todd) writes: 2004-02-26T14:26:47 Larry Wall: Well now, I remember Perl 0, sonny. Does that still exist anywhere? If nowhere else, Larry's got a copy IN HIS HEAD. :) -- I have heard that the universe does not support atomic operations (although I've not seen

POD

2004-02-26 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 14:26, Larry Wall wrote: ch26/011.cf Examples encoded with =also for|begin|end POD commands ch26/044 Bring Documentation Closer To Whatever It Documents ch26/065 Add change bar functionality to pod ch26/079 The Predefined POD Streams are Cperl, Cdata,

Re: Perl 6 timeline?

2004-02-26 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 12:31:04PM -0500, Aaron Sherman wrote: : I cringe at what I'm about to ask because I know it's pushy, but thus is : the burden of my impatience and hubris... : : There was a document: : : TITLE : Apocalypse 1: The Ugly, the Bad, and the Good :

Re: Perl 6 timeline?

2004-02-26 Thread chromatic
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 09:31, Aaron Sherman wrote: And in it Apocalypse #26 was mentioned. Above, Larry mentions #11. At first the rate of 1 apolcalypse per month seemed to support the idea that Perl 6 would be defined within the next couple of years. However, trending shows that this function

Perl 6 timeline?

2004-02-26 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 03:22, Larry Wall wrote: [...] RFC 74 proposes the same thing. But I classified it under Apocalypse 11, Modules, which we skipped over to get to Objects first. So it hasn't actually been discussed much. [...] most exportation will be done simply by marking the routines

This week's summary

2004-02-26 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040222 Welcome to the latest belated Perl 6 Summary. I'm running late, so we'll just dive straight into perl6-internals Loading bytecode at runtime Last week Dan had specced out the rules for runtime loading of bytecode. This week, Leo

Reviewers for Perl 6 Essentials, 2nd. ed.

2004-02-26 Thread Allison Randal
It's that time of year again, and we're looking for reviewers for the 2nd edition of Perl 6 Essentials. The review will start mid-March and last about a week. Drop me a message if you're interested. We may have to narrow down the list of volunteers a bit. 15 sets of comments is about the maximum