Perl 6 Summary for 2004-04-26 through 2005-05-03
All~
Welcome to another weeks summary. This week I shall endeavor not to
accidentally delete my summary or destroy the world. So here we go with
p6c.
Perl 6 Compilers
implicit $_ on for loops
Kiran Kumar found a bug in pugs involving for loops which use $_ but
don't iterate over it. Aaron Sherman and Luke Palmer confirmed the bug.
No word as to its final status, but given the rate of development of
pugs...
http://xrl.us/fyof
Pugs Darcs trouble
Glenn Ehrlich noticed that pugs's darcs repository wasn't getting
updated. Sam Vilain explained that occasionally a daemon needed to be
kicked.
http://xrl.us/fyog
Memory Game v0.2
BÁRTHÁZI András announced the release of the latest version of Memory.
He also put out a call for 85x75 pixel photos for the next version.
http://xrl.us/fyoh
Haddock for Pugs
Stuart Cook decided that the easiest way for him to understand Pugs
internals was to provide better documentation. To that end he started
working with haddock to automatically generate cross linked
documentation for pugs. He even met with some success.
http://xrl.us/fyoi
/haskell.org/haddock/ in http:
is export trait
Garrett Rooney wondered why the is export trait appeared to do
nothing in Pugs. Stevan Little explained that it was just a place holder
which, while it parses, does nothing semantically yet.
http://xrl.us/fyoj
Pugs 6.2.2
Autrijus proudly announced the release of Pugs 6.2.2. It features a
great many changes. High on that list is a great number of speed ups and
thread safe, dead lock free internal storage.
http://xrl.us/fyok
Pugs on Cygwin
Rob Kinyon noticed that Pugs was having trouble on Cygwin. He has made
some headway rectifying the situation, although work remains.
http://xrl.us/fyom
Pugs TODO model
Stevan has put some more thought into the TODO model for Pugs. His
latest suggestion, annotating todo tests with a flag indicating why they
are not passing, seems a little less hackish then the last one and
received general support.
http://xrl.us/fyon
Parrot hiding inside Pugs
Autrijus wanted to embed the newly released PGE. PGE is written in PIR
which runs on Parrot. So, Autrijus decided to embed Parrot into Pugs. He
also posted an interesting link to JHC as a possible bootstrap solution.
http://xrl.us/fyoo
/repetae.net/john/computer/jhc/jhc.html in http:
new PGE released
Maybe I should have mentioned this first... Patrick R. Michaud released
a new version of the Parrot Grammar Engine. It is written entirely in
PIR and generates PIR code. It has many features but not enough tests...
cough hint /cough
http://xrl.us/fyop
Parrot
Monthly Release?
Jared Rhine wondered the monthly releases included April. Chip announced
that April's release would be slushier then most, but would start on the
fourth.
http://xrl.us/fyoq
http://xrl.us/fyor
t/op/debuginfo.t failure
François Perrad noticed a failure in with debuginfo. Leo pointed out
that it was an issue of flushing output handles. Francois provided a
patch (well actually two). Warnock applies to the second.
http://xrl.us/fyos
ParTcl Happy?
Will Coleda thought that ParTcl's GC bugs were finally fixed. Leo burst
his bubble. Apparently these GC bugs can disappear and reappear
according to sun spot activity.
http://xrl.us/fyot
segfault in load_bytecode
Nick Glencross submitted a patch fixing a segfault in load_bytecode.
Jens pointed out that it should use real_exception instead of
internal_exception. chromatic offered to write the test. No official
committed message though...
http://xrl.us/fyou
large PackFile tinker
Leo implemented a change in the interpreter PackFile structure which has
been under discussion for a long time. Unfortunately, it has the
potential to break a lot of JIT stuff. Tests and fixes would be greatly
appreciated.
http://xrl.us/fyov
PMC inheritance issue
Nicholas Clark was having some trouble with his Perl5 PMCs. Later he
posted a mea culpa email, but Leo provided some useful pointers
anyway.
http://xrl.us/fyow
RT cleanup
Bernhard Schmalhofer cleaned out an old ticket from RT.
http://xrl.us/fyox
RFC assign Px, Py
Some time ago, Leo requested comments on the semantics of assign. Brent
'Dax' Royal-Gordon tried to de-Warnock the thread with his support. He
also suggested a clone operator.
http://xrl.us/fyoy
NULL in real_exception
Nicholas Clark was getting bitten by a NULL pointer deref in
real_exception. Leo pointed him toward the correct approach.
http://xrl.us/fyoz
unary operator overhaul
Having finished overhauling the infix operators, Leo set to work
