This Week on Perl 6 (9 - 15 December 2001)
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There were 137 messages across 44 threads, with 41 authors contributing.
(10 posts) Piers Cawley gave a huge list of slice examples, wondering what the expected context would be.
Damian Conway's first, second, and third answers and explanations.
make Make
(33 posts) There were several threads centered around getting
make to work everywhere - with
nmake being the most problematic.
Jaen Saul had not
one, but
two major threads on
nmake incompatibilities in the Parrot makefile, causing a failed build on Win32.
Both Jeff Goff and Robert Spier are working on a complete Perl replacement
for the build process. (With Jeff having already committed a
preliminary one.)
distclean to keep any CVS-related files.
(5 posts) Jeff Goff committed an early version of a Parrot optimizer, while Gregor Purdy submitted a simple JIT runtime loop for experimentation.
(1 post) Jeff Goff also turned in the aggregate keys code, leading the way for development on arrays and hashes.
(7 posts) Bryan C. Warnock posted his thoughts on Parrot bytecode.
Dave Mitchell has finally been given a PDD number (7) for the coding standards, so they should be up on dev.perl.org soon.
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