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Weekly Perl 6 mailing list summary for 08-14 April, 2007
April 23 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 25-31 March, 2007
April 19 2007
This week on the Perl 6 mailing lists “I don’t think that it’s possible to make this non-conformity a fatal heresy :-( (gcc –spanish-inquisition)” – Nicholas Clark in ‘[perl #42110] [PATCH] Returning values from void functions’ Language [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14359 - doc/trunk/design/syn A commit by Larry Wall introduced user-definable array indexing. Darren Duncan wondered how… read moreWeekly Perl 6 mailing list summary for 18-24 March, 2007
April 18 2007
This week on the Perl 6 mailing lists This week saw the introduction of the Perl 6 Microgrants. Read more about them in ‘Perl 6 Microgrants. Now accepting proposals.’ Language Re: Synopsis 26 Thom Boyer responded to Damian Conway’s post from November which thanked people for offering feedback on the first draft. Thom said that he… read moreWeekly Perl 6 mailing list summary for 11-17 March, 2007
April 03 2007
This week on the Perl 6 mailing lists Due to a lack of free time, I will be unable to continue creating the Perl 6 summaries after April. We are looking for a volunteer or group of volunteers to take over the task. Please contact me if you would like more… read moreWeekly Perl 6 mailing list summary for 4-10 March, 2007
March 31 2007
This week on the Perl 6 mailing lists “Q: Can February March? A: No, but April May…” – Larry Wall’s r14313 log message for a date correction Language [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14308 - doc/trunk/design/syn David Green asked if the reason behind Larry Wall’s decision not to have ranges automatically go in either direction is to prevent… 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 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 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 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 more
