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Weekly Perl 6 mailing list summary for 08-14 April, 2007
April 22 2007
This week on the Perl 6 mailing lists “The current pugs implementation is just translating to the old form underneath, so it’s not surprising it’s a bit off. That’s the sort of thing that happens when the language designer gives the language implementor whiplash. However, I rather suspect the interpersonal metaphorical… read moreWeekly Perl 6 mailing list summary for 01-07 April, 2007
April 21 2007
This week on the Perl 6 mailing lists “developers shouldn’t live in fear of $^O” – Jerry Gay, in ‘Use of English pragma’ Language Second Perl 6 Microgrant - Phil Crow on Java to Perl 6 declaration converter Leon Brocard announced that the second Perl 6 microgrant had been awarded to Phil Crow for… read moreWeekly Perl 6 mailing list summary for 25 February - 3 March, 2007
March 21 2007
This week on the Perl 6 mailing lists “It seems you are presuming a Waterfall model of development here. We’re not doing the Waterfall, we’re doing the Whirlpool, where the strange attractor whirls around with feedback at many levels but eventually converges on something in the middle. In other words, a… read moreWeekly Perl 6 mailing list summary for 18-24 February, 2007
March 04 2007
This week on the Perl 6 mailing lists “‘Course, if someone goes ahead and adds the Y combinator, one must naturally begin to wonder what the YY combinator would be… :-) “ – Larry Wall “Obviously it generates a function so anonymous that it can’t even refer to itself. I call… read moreWeekly Perl 6 mailing list summary for 4-10 February, 2007
February 25 2007
This week on the Perl 6 mailing lists “> Errrr … I’m the one who needs the tutorial, not the one to write it. “That makes you a prime person to capture the questions it needs to answer! You can’t evade the Responsibility Ponies that easily.” – chromatic, responding to James… read moreWeekly Perl 6 mailing list summary for 11-17 February, 2007
February 25 2007
This week on the Perl 6 mailing lists Remember that the European Perl Hackathon will be held next weekend, from 2-4 March, 2007 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Registration is open until Thursday, 1 March. For more information, please look at the hackathon website. Allison Randal and Jonathan Worthington will be coordinating… read moreWeekly Perl 6 mailing list summary for 29 January - 3 February, 2007
February 24 2007
This week on the Perl 6 mailing lists “: This mornings up date proposed “Now the da rn spam fi1ters are chang.ng my spelling to look like sp*m. Yeah, that’s the 4icket… :)” – Larry Wall, in ‘Enhancing array indices’ Language [svn:perl6-synopsis] r13540 - doc/trunk/design/syn A commit from Larry Wall reorganized S03. This… read moreWeekly Perl 6 mailing list summary for 21-28 January, 2007
February 23 2007
This week on the Perl 6 mailing lists “Take the longest token, lie down and if the unease persists, write some code…” – Brad Bowman, in ‘DFA/NFA context is non-local’ perl6-language RAII in Perl6/Parrot Previously on this thread, Blair Sutton asked if Perl 6 would be able to do RAII. He cited some articles which… read moreWeekly Perl 6 mailing list summary for 14-20 January, 2007
January 21 2007
This week on the Perl 6 mailing lists “For the first time in the two months I’ve been working on Parrot, ‘make test’ completely succeeded — and with some TODO tests passing, to boot!” – James Keenan, sharing the good news in ‘All tests passing!’ Language Numeric Semantics When we last looked at… read moreWeekly Perl 6 mailing list summary for 07-13 January, 2007
January 14 2007
This week on the Perl 6 mailing lists “…I think you’re the path toward sanity.” – Larry Wall, in ‘Patterns’ Language Numeric Semantics Earlier, Luke Palmer asked for a clear definition of when math should use floating points and when it should be integer-based. This led to a great deal of discussion. This week, a subthread… read moreWeekly Perl 6 mailing list summary for 31 December, 2006 - 6 January, 2007
January 11 2007
This week on the Perl 6 mailing lists Remember, the next Parrot bug day is 13 January, 2007. Join the rest of the team at #parrot (irc.perl.org) to work on closing as many bugs as possible before the next Parrot release. Language Numeric Semantics Earlier, Luke Palmer asked for a clear definition of when… read moreWeekly Perl 6 mailing list summary for 24-30 December, 2006
December 31 2006
This week on the Perl 6 mailing lists “Grrr, otta profefreed my onw righting occashionaly.” – Larry Wall’s commit message for r13508–one typo correction of many Language Numeric Semantics Luke Palmer wanted a clear definition of when math should use floating points and when it should be integer-based. In response, Darren Duncan highlighted a recent… read moreWeekly Perl 6 mailing list summary for 17-23 December, 2006
December 25 2006
This week on the Perl 6 mailing lists “Short answer: absolutely. “Long answer: emphatically not.” – Larry Wall, in ‘RAII in Perl6/Parrot’ Language supertyping Earlier, TSa asked about supertyping, specifically if supertyping will exist in Perl 6. Larry Wall wanted to see some more complicated use cases which would demonstrate that the concept was… read moreWeekly Perl 6 mailing list summary for 10-16 December, 2006
December 17 2006
This week on the Perl 6 mailing lists “With the little sense of smell I have left, this smells like INTERCAL’s ‘COME FROM’ statement to me…” – Larry Wall, who has a cold, in ’supertyping’ Language supertyping In this thread, TSa brought up the concept of supertyping again. The example of Square <: Rectangle was… read moreWeekly Perl 6 mailing list summary for 3-9 December, 2006
December 10 2006
This week on the Perl 6 mailing lists “Your faithful Dynamic Environmentalist” – closing signature of Bob Rogers in ‘RFC: Proposal for dynamic binding’ Language [svn:perl6-synopsis] r13487 - doc/trunk/design/syn Last week, a commit from Larry Wall related to expanding tabs led TSa to ask if array equivalence should be defined in terms of Bags. Larry… read moreRecent Posts | All Posts
