On 5 July, 23:59, "Patrick R. Michaud" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 04:20:48PM -0700, bsdz wrote: > > This is the same as bug #562 I filed months ago. I also sent several > > messages to the newsgroups and asked several questions in IRC. > > However, no one wanted to rise to the challenge and decide how this > > should work - no architect (or perhaps, one more interested in being > > in control rather than deciding on important behaviour). It was this > > bug or at least the way key players in the parrot team lacked interest > > in it that led me to feel that Parrot isn't interested in supporting > > any language other than Perl 6. This just made it all a bit too > > cliquey for me. > > I'm not sure why Perl 6 enters the discussion here ("Parrot isn't > interested in supporting any language other than Perl 6"). > > It's worth noting that both #562 and #784 are the same issue as > RT #60036, which I reported as being a problem back in > October 2008. That ticket still hasn't been addressed, and so > Rakudo has basically worked around the bug for now by avoiding > any use of inplace opcodes whatsoever. > > I'm not trying to provoke a language war here (and thus will drop > this thread if it appears to head that way) -- I'm just curious > as to why Perl 6 is being singled out as a reason for this particular > bug not being resolved, given that it's an obstacle for Rakudo as well. > (I grant that because of the existence of workarounds, it's not > the highest priority bug that Rakudo needs to have addressed at the > moment.)
It is my view that Rakudo and Perl 6 are synonymous in the context of Parrot. And yes I understand that Rakudo has developed it's own workarounds for this long existing (and major) bug. That's why the bug is still unfixed since Rakudo does have a workaround. Hence there appears to be little will in the Parrot (=~ Perl-6?) community to fix it. This is by no means the only case where this is happening. _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
