OK, here's my summary of language RFCs as they currently stand. As
I said before, this list will always be available from
http://infotrope.net/opensource/software/perl6/
I would appreciate if people could do the following:
1. put their hands up to write the "up for grabs" RFCs
2. work towards getting the "requested/promised" and "draft" RFCs up to
the point where they can be submitted to the librarian.
3. let me know if you think an RFC needs a sublist to discuss it
I'm *very* close to suggesting a "strict" sublist. Thoughts?
I've also specifically asked Damian to send me a list of the RFCs he's
planning to write.
K.
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The Perl 6 Language RFC summary:
Up for grabs:
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Formats out of core
Renaming linenoise perlvars (into a package?)
unlink() renamed
Requested/promised:
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an option for strong typing
Michael Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Programer Modifiable Warnings and Error Messages
Brust, Corwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
List operations eg interleaving
Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
That Perl should stay Perl
Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Switch statement
Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Deprecate localtime() and replace with ????
Nathan Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
want()
Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
named parameters
Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Drafts, etc
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loop control and do
Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Enhanced pack/unpack
Edwin Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Removing/fixing $[line noise here] variables
Corwin Brust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
RFC for recursive regexps
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Greene)
Filehandle type-defining punctuation
Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Elements of @_ should be read-only.
John Tobey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Submitted to librarian:
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RFC 2: Request For New Pragma: Implicit
Bryan C. Warnock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
RFC 4: Type inference
Steve Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
RFC 5: Multiline comments
Michael J. Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
RFC 6: Lexical variables made default
J. David Blackstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
RFC 7: Higher resolution time values
Gisle Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
RFC 8: The AUTOLOAD subroutine should be able to decline a request
Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
RFC 9: Highlander variables
Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
RFC 10: Filehandles should use * as a type prefix if typeglobs are eliminated.
Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
RFC 12: Variable usage warnings
Steve Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for now
RFC 14: Modify open() and opendir() to return handle objects
Nathan Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
RFC 15: Stronger typing through tie
Michael Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
RFC 16: Keep default Perl free of constraints such as warnings and strict.
Daniel Chetlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
RFC 17: Organization and Rationalization of Perl State Variables
Steve Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
