On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:59:35 +0800, Audrey Tang wrote: > On 2/8/06, Yuval Kogman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If Audrey is willing, I think a correct new direction for pugs is to > > try and separate the parts even more - the prelude is a mess right > > now, many of it's part are duplicated across the backends, the > > standard library that is mashed into the prelude, and into pugs core > > itself, etc. > > Er, of course I'm willing, that was exactly we've been moving toward > in the recent weeks. :-) > > Though an explicit Standard Library design -- as compared to Perl5's which was > grown out gradually by the porters and CPAN folks -- is tricky, and I'm not > yet ready for that, lacking a practical understanding of how module interfaces > and roles can be applied to this diverse design space.
By standard library is i don't mean core modules - it's Perl 6's perlfunc + some really critical pieces. > So I will be focusing on Prelude (the part of the language that always gets > loaded by default) refactoring as well as providing an OO core calculus that > can > support this, and take advantage of the target VM's vast library instead of > writing them in Perl 6, at least up until 6.2831 (the primary target > VM is Perl 5, > then Parrot, then JavaScript.) Aye =) -- () Yuval Kogman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0xEBD27418 perl hacker & /\ kung foo master: /me wields bonsai kittens: neeyah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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