Perl 6 Design Minutes for 28 January 2009

The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 28 January 2009. Larry, Allison, Patrick, Will, Jerry, and chromatic attended.

Larry:

• still working through various operator questions
• thinking about a better model for preventing unfortunate backtrackings
• current commit model is too simple-minded
• otherwise thinking about various questions people are asking me
• they're on the backburner, mulling in my subconscious
• heading up to Seattle this next week

Allison:

• cleaned up library loading
• generated Debian packages
• trying to get Parrot 1.0 into Debian
• working on documentation, especially make html
• decided to try a POD parser in Parrot
• in PGE, a full POD parser takes about four hours
• wrote the PCT AST nodes, but didn't write the action rules
• seems like kjs took a stab at those
• merged in half of the STRING refactors
• resolved a handful of tickets last night

Will:

• finished the release manager document through May
• ripping out a lot of deprecated items again
• seems like our list gets longer every release
• we really need to make a push to rip it out in February
• working on Tcl, on and off
• all of the details are on the partcl blog

Patrick:

• mostly making plans to move Rakudo to its new repository
• should have that all decided in the next few hours
• will make that happen, so that Parrot will make its move tomorrow with no trouble
• suspect that we'll work on that over the next couple of days
• responding to some questions
• have a new laptop, which is 33% faster at building Parrot than my desktop
• getting ready for Frozen Perl next week

Jerry:

• added portable NaN/Inf support to Parrot and Rakudo
• the 60 or so spectests which failed on non-Linux platforms now pass
• all tests pass for Parrot and Rakudo on Windows
• working a little on the infrastructure
• trying to get e-mail to Trac installed
• opened 14 tickets yesterday
• challenging others to join in on closing them
• S19 could use Larry's review

c:

• working on the support, release, and deprecation policies
• will submit that draft for review this afternoon
• have a couple of bugs to fix
• will close as many tickets as possible

Jerry:

• the Open Group's C99 model suggests inf or INF
• should we follow that or the dynamic language model of Inf?

Larry:

• I like the latter

Patrick:

• the Open Group says when you parse a string, it's case insensitive
• when you produce a string, it's all uppercase or lowercase

Larry:

• Perl 6 doesn't care what other standards groups say

Patrick:

• if we stringify infinity, we get Inf
• if we numify inf, do we get zero or infinity?

Larry:

• infinity