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The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 2006-02-12 Welcome to part one of this week's summary. Owning to chronic problems with deadlines I've only got time to summarize perl6-compiler and perl6-internals tonight; I'll do perl6-language when I get back from $paying_

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Unless Matt takes pity on me, and writes a summary at disgustingly high speed, there won't be a summary this week. Assorted things got in the way on Monday or Tuesday, and I'm now at my consulting gig 'til the end of the week with no time for summarizing. I'm really, really sorry. -- Piers Cawley

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ti, 2006-01-03 kello 13:57 +, The Perl 6 Summarizer kirjoitti: > Planet Perl Six is a handy news aggregator of several Perl 6 related > sources. > > I believe that is actually Thanks for the great summary! -- wolverian <[EM

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The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 2006-01-01 Another year, another summary. You might think I'm going to summarize the events of the whole year, but it turns out that chromatic's already done it. So in the spirit of laziness, I'll just point you at his year end summary.

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The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 2005-12-18 Welcome to another Perl 6 summary. This has been a week of shootouts, cleanups, relationships and cunning translations. Read on for the details (or, this being a summary, pointers to the details). This week in perl6-compiler 2 messa

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-12-04 I heard a rumour on the London.pm mailing list week. Apparently the Perl 6 Summaries are no longer being published. As I'm sure you can imagine, it came as something of a surprise to me. This week has been all about Parrot, Leo's go

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d by the distraction of preparing > this week's summary. I hope to be writing next week's summary as well > because the week after I'll be moving house and don't quite know when > I'll have my bandwidth back. That sounds fine to me. After next weeks I will

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shin off on the bottom of the aforementioned tube train. Luckily the driver noticed my plight and did not drive off, taking my left foot with him. Instead he opened the doors and waited for me to dust myself off and board his vehicle, which carried me to Paddington where, after much hobbl

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On Nov 15, 2005, at 17:24, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 2005-11-13 "string_bitwise_*" Leo, it seems to boil down to a choice between throwing an exception or simply mashing everything together and marking the 'resulting bit mess'

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On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Perl 6 perlplexities Michele Dondi worries that the increase in complexity of some aspects of Perl 6 is much bigger than the increase in functionality that the complexity buys us. In particular Michele is concerned that the Perl 6 pa

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The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 2005-11-13 Welcome to another fortnight's worth of summary. We'll get back to a weekly schedule one of these fine days, you see if we don't. This fortnight in perl6-compiler There was a surprisingly large amount of activity on the list, but

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On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Slightly tangentially to this, Dan Sugalski blogged a couple of weeks ago about his successes and failures with Parrot. The comments are worth reading -- there's a fair few more or less well founded complaints about the way the Perl 6

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> Rejigging NCI to use the ffcall library > Nick Glencross wondered about rejigging NCI, the parrot Native Call > Interface to use the ffcall library. In fact he went so far as to offer > up a proof of concept implementation. Apparently the ffcall approach > makes it much easier to write callba

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The Perl 6 Summarizer skribis 2005-11-04 14:34 (+): > $_ defaulting for mutating ops Probably I have not been clear enough about that I no longer think this is a good idea. Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://convolution

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-10-30 Hmm... Thursday afternoon and I've only just started writing the summary... What happened to professionalism? What happened to rigid, albeit self-imposed deadlines? Um... I've had a cold. The cats ate my homework. This week in perl

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-10-09 Hello, and welcome to the first Perl 6 Summary to be published on my website rather than its former home at This week in perl6-compiler PGE error on failing subrules Allison broke the resounding silence of the l

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TSa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > HaloO, > > The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: >> Meanwhile, in perl6-language >> "\(...)" >> Oh look, a thread in p6l that's still going more than a fortnight later. >> How unusual. > > Is a long running thread considered a bad thing on this list? Nah, it's j

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TSa skribis 2005-09-27 10:15 (+0200): > Is a long running thread considered a bad thing on this list? Just like how a post being Warnocked can have one or more of several causes, a long running thread can. Some are bad, some are good. As a thread becomes longer and more fanned out, it becomes h

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HaloO, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Meanwhile, in perl6-language "\(...)" Oh look, a thread in p6l that's still going more than a fortnight later. How unusual. Is a long running thread considered a bad thing on this list? I have grasped so far, that spawning a new thread after some d

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On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 18:12:23 +0100, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > Allomopherencing > Not satisfied with inventing Exceptuations, Yuval invented > Allomopherencing as well. Just don't ask me what it means because I > don't know. It was just a bad joke on Exceptuation's expense ;-

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-09-25 Hello all. It's another Monday afternoon, which means I'm writing another summary. There's no cricket to distract me this week, so I'm letting iTunes Party Shuffle attempt to distract me instead. This week in perl6-compiler Nobody s

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20050814 As you will note from the date in the title, it's been a short week. We're switching back to a midnight Sunday/Monday rollover in order to make life easier for the perl.com types. So, if I can avoid being distracted too much by the sec

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-08-02 In case you were wondering, Darwin ports didn't work it's magic and I still don't have a working Haskell compiler. Thank Juerd for feather, even if I did have to turn my laptop upside down to read the MOTD. Rot-180: oN hes +snf This

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-07-19 Welcome to another Perl 6 Summary, brought to you by the words 'displacement' and 'activity'. So far today I've caught up with everything unread in NetNewsWire, my Flickr groups, every other mailing list I'm subscribed to and complet

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The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 2005-07-05 My, doesn't time fly? Another fortnight gone and another summary to write. It's a hard life I tell you! This week in perl6-compiler Where's everyone gone? It seems that most of the Perl 6 compiler development is being discussed at

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The Perl 6 summary for the fortnight ending 2005-06-21 Surprise! It's me again. You may be wondering what happened to last week's summary (I know I was) and where Matt had gone. Well, I'm not entirely sure where exactly he is now, but last week was moving week for him. Those of

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The Perl 6 summary for the fortnight ending 2005-06-21 Surprise! It's me again. You may be wondering what happened to last week's summary (I know I was) and where Matt had gone. Well, I'm not entirely sure where exactly he is now, but last week was moving week for him. Those of

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The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 2005-06-07 Crumbs. I've remembered to write the summary this week. Now if I can just remember to bill O'Reilly for, err, 2003's summaries. Heck, it's not like waiting for the dollar to get stronger has paid off. Ah well, no use crying over spi

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-04-26 It's my turn again. What fun. "What," I hear you all ask, "has been going on in the crazy mixed up world of Perl 6 design and development"? Read this summary and, beginning with perl6-compiler, I shall tell you. This week in perl6-

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-09-24 So, this is my last summary before I start my teaching practice. Hopefully I've got things set up so writing the summary isn't going to interfere with that, and vice versa. This week in perl6-compiler State of Rules Discussion of

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On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 09:12:32AM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote: > On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:11:02 +0100, The Perl 6 Summarizer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-09-17 > >Another week, another summary, and I'm running late. So: > > > > This week in perl6-com

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On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:11:02 +0100, The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-09-17 >Another week, another summary, and I'm running late. So: > > This week in perl6-compiler > > Bootstrapping the grammar >Uri Guttman had some thoughts

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On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Writing "pack", or something like it Michele Dondi wondered how to write "pack"-like functions in Perl 6, where the first argument is a string which specifies the signature of the rest of the function call. The proposal stumped me, but may

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-09-17 Another week, another summary, and I'm running late. So: This week in perl6-compiler The current state of the compiler Discussion of the current state of the nascent perl 6 compiler and how best to contribute to its development even b

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This week on perl6-compiler Yes you read that right; development of the Perl 6 compiler now has its own mailing list. Hopefully, in the coming weeks, the current perl6-internals list will get renamed parrot-internals to reflect that split. As I write this, groups.google.com has

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-09-03 Another week, a free weekend, and still I haven't started writing the summary until Monday. Still, I don't actually start at college 'til next week, so that's all right then. We start with perl6-internals. Compile op with return

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NB: The links are probably broken at present. Normal service will hopefully be resumed once Google gets caught up with the perl6 lists. The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-08-27 Where does the time go? I blame folk festivals. Once I'm getting busy with the teacher training I'm goin

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On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Butler, Gerald wrote: > > Of course American and Right are synonymous! Just ask OUR WONDERFUL GOD (I > mean President) GEORGE W. BUSH. He'll tell ya' > OK, gentlemen, this is both way off topic and starting to head into flame war territory, so I suggest that we either qu

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L PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: This week's summary Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Piers Cawley wrote: >> Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>Care to explain what those are, O great math tea

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Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Piers Cawley wrote: >> Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>Care to explain what those are, O great math teacher? >> What's a math teacher? > > It's the right^H^H^H^H^HAmerican way to say "maths teacher". You mean American

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Piers Cawley wrote: Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Care to explain what those are, O great math teacher? What's a math teacher? It's the right^H^H^H^H^HAmerican way to say "maths teacher". -- Brent "Dax" Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perl and Parrot hacker Oceania has alway

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On 2004-07-28 at 20:55:28, Piers Cawley wrote: > What's a math teacher? Oh, come now. You may refuse to *use* the Leftpondian short form, but pretending not to *recognize* it is a bit much. :) -- Mark REED| CNN Internet Technology 1 CNN Center Rm SW0831G | [EMAIL PROTEC

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Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: >> The infinite thread >> Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at >> least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack >> surreal numbers into Perl 6.1 then

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On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: > The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > > The infinite thread > > Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at > > least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack > > surreal numbers into Perl 6.1 t

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Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [surreal numbers] > Care to explain what those are, O great math teacher? Surreal Number theory was an attempt in the latter half of the twentieth century to unify several existing sets of numbers (including the complex numbers, generalized eps

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On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:29:15 -0700, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > > The infinite thread > > Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at > > least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack > >

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On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 10:29:15AM -0700, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: > The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > > The infinite thread > >Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at > >least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack > >surreal numbers

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The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: The infinite thread Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack surreal numbers into Perl 6.1 then that would be cool. Care to explain what those are, O great math tea

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-07-25 Monday morning, all's well, and Piers sits down at his desk to bash out another in his ongoing series of Perl 6 Summaries. I've just realised that I missed noting the second anniversary of my writing these summaries. It came up a mo

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Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Okay, so the interview was on Tuesday 13th of July. >> It went well; I'm going to be a maths teacher. [...] > As we all know, time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a > banana. If you

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On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:15:49 +0200, Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The Perl 6 Summarizer skribis 2004-07-20 14:46 (+0100): Another subthread discussed interpolation in strings. Larry'schanged his mind so that "$file.ext" is now interpreted as "$object.method". You need to do "${file

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The Perl 6 Summarizer skribis 2004-07-20 14:46 (+0100): > Another subthread discussed interpolation in strings. Larry's changed > his mind so that "$file.ext" is now interpreted as "$object.method". You > need to do "${file}.ext" or ""$( $file ).ext"". Or maybe "$«file».ext" > by an

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--- The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, so the interview was on Tuesday 13th of July. > It went well; I'm going to be a maths teacher. "As usual, we begin with maths-geometry: In Mathematics last week, one Pythagoras suggested there might be a relationship between the sides

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-07-18 Following last week's bizarrely dated summary (I misplaced a day) we're back with the correct week ending date, but I'm ashamed to admit that I've slipped to writing on a Tuesday again. My head hangs in shame and I am filled with the

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-07-10 Another week down, another summer summary. On a Monday no less. Last week I even managed to get the summary to the mailing lists before the Perl 5 Porters summary. I may have been even more surprised that Rafael by that. Let's see if

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On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Piers Cawley wrote: > "Jonadab the Unsightly One" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Different OO models > >> Jonadab the Unsightly One had wondered about having objects > >> inheriting behaviour from objects r

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"Jonadab the Unsightly One" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Different OO models >> Jonadab the Unsightly One had wondered about having objects >> inheriting behaviour from objects rather than classes in Perl 6. > > Urgle. I've complet

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The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Different OO models > Jonadab the Unsightly One had wondered about having objects > inheriting behaviour from objects rather than classes in Perl 6. Urgle. I've completely failed to explain myself so as to be understood. That wasn't

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-07-04 Another week, another Perl 6 Summary. This is becoming a habit. Let's do perl6-internals first shall we? Japhy's Perl 6 rules parser Last week Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan announced that he'd be working on a Perl 6 rules parser once he'

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The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Congratulations Ion, don't forget to send in a patch to the CREDITS > file. $ grep -1 Ion CREDITS N: Ion Alexandru Morega D: string.pmc Thanks again for your summary, leo

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The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Mmm... Pie-thon Dan reminded everyone of the URL of the benchmark that's going to be run for the Pie-thon. If Parrot doesn't run it faster than the C implementation of Python, then Dan's going to get a pie in the face and he'll have to spring for a rou

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-06-27 What's this? No! It can't be! It's a *weekly* Perl 6 Summary. What is the world coming to? Sorry, I can't answer that one, so I'll tell you what's been happening this week in perl6-internals. Bignums, licenses, pie As you are

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The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 2004-05-23 Yes. I know. This week's summary is a week late. So it's a summary of the last two weeks. So let's get straight to perl6-internals shall we? Working on the Perl 6 Compiler Abhijit A. Mahabal posted his first ev

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-05-09 Ooh look. Stuff's been happening in perl6-internals again. Will wonders never cease? Building NCI by default Bernhard Schmalhofer posted a patch to turn on building libnci.so by default so that the tests in t/pmc/nci.t would get

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-05-02 So, May Day didn't quite knock me for six this year (but being up at 4am on Newcastle Town Moor on Saturday morning to welcome in the summer with a bunch of rapper dancers (and no, rapper does not involve large shouty men wearing p

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-04-25 And we're back on a weekly schedule again (unless the Mayday bank holiday knocks me for six next week). As I expected, the Apocalypse has brought out a rash of prophets and prognosticators in perl6-language, but perl6-internals is

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but you'll get a fortnight's summary the week after, because I'm good to you like that. We'll start this week's summary with perl6-internals. MMD vtable functions in bytecode Dan had announced that he was working on adding parrot bytecode support fo

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-03-28 ... and we're back! Another interesting week in Perl 6. Your Summarizer even wrote some [parrot] code and it's been simply ages since he did that. In accordance with ancient custom, we'll start the summary with perl6-internals. Bu

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-03-14 Another week, another summary. It's been a pretty active week so, with a cunningly mixed metaphor, we'll dive straight into the hive of activity that is perl6-internals. Benchmarking Discussion and development of Sebastien Riedel'

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The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > Parrotbug reaches 0.0.1 > Jerome Quelin responded to Dan's otherwise ignored request for a > parrot equivalent of perlbug when he offered an implementation of > parrotbug for everyone's perusal, but didn't go so far to add it to > the distribution. I don't think i

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-03-07 Time marches on, and another summary gets written, sure as eggs are eggs and chromatic is a chap with whom I will never start a sentence. We start, as always, with perl6-internals. Platform games Work continued this week on expand

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040229 Welcome to the leapday summary. We'll crack straight on with perl6-internals Running up to release time As Leapday had been chosen as the release date for Parrot 0.1.0, the week was mostly spent getting things ready for release. A c

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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 Töt

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I'm afraid that this week's summary won't be posted until at least Wednesday. Sorry.

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040215 In his talk on Parrot at OSCON last year, Dan said that Parrot would have objects 'by the end of the week'. It's been a very long week, and it's not finished yet. Right, venting over, time for the summary. I'll start with perl6-in

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Scott) writes: > On 10 Feb 2004, at 14:09, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > > I wonder how long it'll be before someone reimplements > > them in in PIR... > > or Perl6 perchance. Well, Perl6::Rules should be coming out soon, so that should help. -- The problem with

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On 10 Feb 2004, at 14:09, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: I wonder how long it'll be before someone reimplements them in in PIR... or Perl6 perchance.

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040208 Another Monday evening. Another day of displacement activity out of the way. There's a huge lump of belly pork braising slowly in a mixture of stock, rice wine & soy sauce, and nothing on the telly. It must be time to write the Perl 6

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040201 Welcome once again to Gateshead, where the skies are grey, the view is uninspiring, and the workmen across the road seem determined to fall off the ladder before they get the double glazing fitted. But enough of the gay Gateshead life

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040125 Welcome to the first summary from my new home in Gateshead. The same old wibble, with a different view from its window and fewer trips to London. Right, time to see what's been going on in perl6-internals this week. Global labels in IMC

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Ops file hints Leo had a list of suggestions for extra data that he thinks needs to go into the ops files. Dan agreed with everything on the list and added a todo item to the Parrot RT queue. http://tinyurl.com/3h8za Meanwhile in perl6-language run-once code David Storrs wan

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At 12:36 PM -0500 1/13/04, Uri Guttman wrote: > "TP6S" == The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TP6S> Congratulations Dan TP6S> Melvin Smith offered his congratulations to Dan for the TP6S> first commercial use of Parrot. I think I can safely say we TP6S> al

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> "TP6S" == The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TP6S> Congratulations Dan TP6S> Melvin Smith offered his congratulations to Dan for the TP6S> first commercial use of Parrot. I think I can safely say we TP6S> all echo those congratulations. shouldn't that

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040111 It's Monday. People have been talking about Perl 6, Parrot and the European Union Constitution. Let's find out what they've been saying about Parrot first shall we? Threads Threads were discussed some more. Dan's deadline is coming

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Sayeth the Summarizer: Asked for pithy comments, chromatic gave good pith, noting that if he 'had a test case from everyone who asked "When'll it be done" and code to pass a test case from everyone who said "I'd like to help, but I don't know where to start"...' then he'd happily ch

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Scott) writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Austin Hastings) writes: > >>PS: While I'm somewhat sympathetic to the fact that eu guys are trying to >>spin up 200 years worth of amendments and supreme court decisions at the >>same time, it's still

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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Austin Hastings) writes: >PS: While I'm somewhat sympathetic to the fact that eu guys are trying to >spin up 200 years worth of amendments and supreme court decisions at the >same time, it's still a ratf*ck. Eu need to get eurselves a Larry. Jus

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Uri Guttman wrote: > i say we just sell them a license to use the US constitution. Bill Gates wrote: > What is it with these Linux guys? > i say we just sell them a license to use Windoze. :-) A

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On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:48:04PM -0500, Austin Hastings wrote: > > From: Uri Guttman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > "AH" == Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > AH> PS: While I'm somewhat sympathetic to the fact that eu guys are > > AH> trying to spin up 200 years worth of

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> "AH" == Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> reminds me of the great line: in EU they consider a 100 miles a long >> distance, in the US we consider 100 years a long time. :) AH> That's very good. I'm going to recycle it. Do you know the author? dunno. i have heard it from

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According to Austin Hastings: > When you consider some of the issues, it's sort of obvious that they're > trying *real* hard not to say, "Look the Americans solved this problem > already." Three words: "Second System Effect". -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <[EMAIL PROTE

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From: Uri Guttman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "AH" == Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> -Original Message- > >> From: Uri Guttman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> but he if worked on that at the rate he is churning out apocalypses, it > >> would be anot

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> "AH" == Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> -Original Message- >> From: Uri Guttman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> but he if worked on that at the rate he is churning out apocalypses, it >> would be another 200 years. this is not a knock on larry but a comment

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> -Original Message- > From: Uri Guttman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "AH" == Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > AH> PS: While I'm somewhat sympathetic to the fact that eu guys are > AH> trying to spin up 200 years worth of amendments and supreme court > AH> decisi

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Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 09:30 PM 1/5/2004 +, Piers Cawley wrote: >>Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > At 07:55 PM 1/5/2004 +0100, Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote: >> >>The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > people's salaries will depend on

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> "AH" == Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AH> PS: While I'm somewhat sympathetic to the fact that eu guys are AH> trying to spin up 200 years worth of amendments and supreme court AH> decisions at the same time, it's still a ratf*ck. Eu need to get AH> eurselves a Larry. I

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At 09:30 PM 1/5/2004 +, Piers Cawley wrote: Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 07:55 PM 1/5/2004 +0100, Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote: >>The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > people's salaries will depend on Parrot. I confess I wouldn't be >> > surprised if, b

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The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I confess > I wouldn't be surprised if, > by the end of the year, > we haven't seen > the full implementation of > at least one of > the big > non-Perl > scripting languages > on top of Parrot. Obviously you've been reading the proposed EU con

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chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 10:55, Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote: > >> The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > I confess I wouldn't be >> > surprised if, by the end of the year, we haven't seen the full >> > implementation of at least

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Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 07:55 PM 1/5/2004 +0100, Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote: >>The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > people's salaries will depend on Parrot. I confess I wouldn't be >> > surprised if, by the end of the year, we haven't seen the full

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