As I threatened last week, I’m moving the rollover point for these summaries from midnight on Sunday/Monday to midnight on Friday/Saturday, but rather than do it in one swell foop, I’m doing a couple of six-day weeks. The theory…
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…
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…
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…
Good evening. You find me typing away in a motel room on the edge of the Lake District on the shortest night of the year. I suppose, by rites, I should be spending the night by some stone circle drinking,…
Whee! There’s a new graphics card in the G5, which means I can type this at the big screen again, which makes me happy. Well, it would make me far happier if the new card didn’t leave horrible artifacts…
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…
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 run on more…
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 is guaranteed to leave a chap…
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 still…
The only problem with summarizing two week’s worth of Perl 6 happenings is that there’s twice as much stuff to summarize. Still, there’s no way I could have made the time to write a summary last week so I’ll…
Wednesday? Why did I leave it ‘til Wednesday to write the summary? I must have some reason. Or maybe not. I’ll give fair warning that I won’t be doing a summary for next week though, what with Easter and everything,…
Operator Renaming Several operators have been given new names to increase clarity and better Huffman-code the language: -> becomes ., like the rest of the world uses. The string concatenation . becomes ~. Think of it as “stitching” the two…
Editor’s note: this document is out of date and remains here for historic interest. See Synopsis 7 for the current design information. What a piece of work is Perl 6! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In…
Editor’s note: this document is out of date and remains here for historic interest. See Synopsis 6 for the current design information. As soon as she walked through my door I knew her type: she was an argument waiting…
This is the 7th annual State of the Perl Onion speech, wherein I tell you how Perl is doing. Perl is doing fine, thank you. Now that that’s out of the way, I’d like to spend the rest of…
Editor’s note: Perl 6 Essentials is the first book to offer a peek into the next major version of the Perl language. It covers the development of Perl 6 syntax as well as Parrot, the language-independent interpreter developed as…
London.pm technical meetings are always inspiring events with top notch speakers. At our most recent gathering Richard Clamp and Mark Fowler gave us “Wax::On, Wax::Off - how to become a Perl sensei”; Paul Mison showed us how to make…
This Week Perl Doesn’t Suck Multiple Classifications Once Inherited, Twice Shy Class::Object The Internal String API Miscellany Last Words You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending an empty message to perl6-digest-subscribe@netthink.co.uk. Please send corrections…
Michael Schwern will be speaking at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention in San Diego, CA, July 23-27, 2001. Excuse me, I’m going to ramble a bit about traffic lights as they relate to language design to see whether something…
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