This week's summary. Part 1

2006-02-14 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 2006-02-12 Welcome to part one of this week's summary. Owning to chronic problems with deadlines I've only got time to summarize perl6-compiler and perl6-internals tonight; I'll do perl6-language when I get back from $paying_

Um... this week's summary

2006-01-18 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
Unless Matt takes pity on me, and writes a summary at disgustingly high speed, there won't be a summary this week. Assorted things got in the way on Monday or Tuesday, and I'm now at my consulting gig 'til the end of the week with no time for summarizing. I'm really, really sorry. -- Piers Cawley

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2006-01-03 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 2006-01-01 Another year, another summary. You might think I'm going to summarize the events of the whole year, but it turns out that chromatic's already done it. So in the spirit of laziness, I'll just point you at his year end summary.

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2005-12-19 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 2005-12-18 Welcome to another Perl 6 summary. This has been a week of shootouts, cleanups, relationships and cunning translations. Read on for the details (or, this being a summary, pointers to the details). This week in perl6-compiler 2 messa

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2005-12-08 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-12-04 I heard a rumour on the London.pm mailing list week. Apparently the Perl 6 Summaries are no longer being published. As I'm sure you can imagine, it came as something of a surprise to me. This week has been all about Parrot, Leo's go

Re: This week's summary

2005-11-30 Thread Matt Fowles
d by the distraction of preparing > this week's summary. I hope to be writing next week's summary as well > because the week after I'll be moving house and don't quite know when > I'll have my bandwidth back. That sounds fine to me. After next weeks I will

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2005-11-30 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
shin off on the bottom of the aforementioned tube train. Luckily the driver noticed my plight and did not drive off, taking my left foot with him. Instead he opened the doors and waited for me to dust myself off and board his vehicle, which carried me to Paddington where, after much hobbl

Re: This week's summary => Perl 6 perlplexities

2005-11-15 Thread Michele Dondi
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Perl 6 perlplexities Michele Dondi worries that the increase in complexity of some aspects of Perl 6 is much bigger than the increase in functionality that the complexity buys us. In particular Michele is concerned that the Perl 6 pa

Re: This week's summary

2005-11-15 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Nov 15, 2005, at 17:24, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 2005-11-13 "string_bitwise_*" Leo, it seems to boil down to a choice between throwing an exception or simply mashing everything together and marking the 'resulting bit mess'

Re: This week's summary

2005-11-15 Thread Roger Browne
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 16:24 +, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > ...Roger Browne (whose name I keep wanting to use as a Clerihew)... Thanks for the summaries, Piers! Here's a Clerihew for you: Roger Browne took his Parrot to town Wearing an upside-down Amber crown >:) How to w

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2005-11-15 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 2005-11-13 Welcome to another fortnight's worth of summary. We'll get back to a weekly schedule one of these fine days, you see if we don't. This fortnight in perl6-compiler There was a surprisingly large amount of activity on the list, but

Re: This week's summary

2005-11-05 Thread Michele Dondi
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Slightly tangentially to this, Dan Sugalski blogged a couple of weeks ago about his successes and failures with Parrot. The comments are worth reading -- there's a fair few more or less well founded complaints about the way the Perl 6

RE: This week's summary

2005-11-04 Thread Garrett Goebel
> Rejigging NCI to use the ffcall library > Nick Glencross wondered about rejigging NCI, the parrot Native Call > Interface to use the ffcall library. In fact he went so far as to offer > up a proof of concept implementation. Apparently the ffcall approach > makes it much easier to write callba

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2005-11-04 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-10-30 Hmm... Thursday afternoon and I've only just started writing the summary... What happened to professionalism? What happened to rigid, albeit self-imposed deadlines? Um... I've had a cold. The cats ate my homework. This week in perl

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2005-10-10 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-10-09 Hello, and welcome to the first Perl 6 Summary to be published on my website rather than its former home at This week in perl6-compiler PGE error on failing subrules Allison broke the resounding silence of the l

Re: This week's summary

2005-09-26 Thread Yuval Kogman
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 18:12:23 +0100, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > Allomopherencing > Not satisfied with inventing Exceptuations, Yuval invented > Allomopherencing as well. Just don't ask me what it means because I > don't know. It was just a bad joke on Exceptuation's expense ;-

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2005-09-26 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-09-25 Hello all. It's another Monday afternoon, which means I'm writing another summary. There's no cricket to distract me this week, so I'm letting iTunes Party Shuffle attempt to distract me instead. This week in perl6-compiler Nobody s

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2005-08-15 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20050814 As you will note from the date in the title, it's been a short week. We're switching back to a midnight Sunday/Monday rollover in order to make life easier for the perl.com types. So, if I can avoid being distracted too much by the sec

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2005-08-03 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-08-02 In case you were wondering, Darwin ports didn't work it's magic and I still don't have a working Haskell compiler. Thank Juerd for feather, even if I did have to turn my laptop upside down to read the MOTD. Rot-180: oN hes +snf This

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2005-07-20 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-07-19 Welcome to another Perl 6 Summary, brought to you by the words 'displacement' and 'activity'. So far today I've caught up with everything unread in NetNewsWire, my Flickr groups, every other mailing list I'm subscribed to and complet

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2005-07-06 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 2005-07-05 My, doesn't time fly? Another fortnight gone and another summary to write. It's a hard life I tell you! This week in perl6-compiler Where's everyone gone? It seems that most of the Perl 6 compiler development is being discussed at

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2005-06-23 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 summary for the fortnight ending 2005-06-21 Surprise! It's me again. You may be wondering what happened to last week's summary (I know I was) and where Matt had gone. Well, I'm not entirely sure where exactly he is now, but last week was moving week for him. Those of

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2005-06-23 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 summary for the fortnight ending 2005-06-21 Surprise! It's me again. You may be wondering what happened to last week's summary (I know I was) and where Matt had gone. Well, I'm not entirely sure where exactly he is now, but last week was moving week for him. Those of

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2005-06-08 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 2005-06-07 Crumbs. I've remembered to write the summary this week. Now if I can just remember to bill O'Reilly for, err, 2003's summaries. Heck, it's not like waiting for the dollar to get stronger has paid off. Ah well, no use crying over spi

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2005-04-27 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-04-26 It's my turn again. What fun. "What," I hear you all ask, "has been going on in the crazy mixed up world of Perl 6 design and development"? Read this summary and, beginning with perl6-compiler, I shall tell you. This week in perl6-

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2004-09-26 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-09-24 So, this is my last summary before I start my teaching practice. Hopefully I've got things set up so writing the summary isn't going to interfere with that, and vice versa. This week in perl6-compiler State of Rules Discussion of

Re: This week's summary

2004-09-23 Thread Peter Sinnott
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 09:12:32AM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote: > On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:11:02 +0100, The Perl 6 Summarizer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-09-17 > >Another week, another summary, and I'm running late. So: > > > > This week in perl6-com

Re: This week's summary

2004-09-23 Thread Buddha Buck
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:11:02 +0100, The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-09-17 >Another week, another summary, and I'm running late. So: > > This week in perl6-compiler > > Bootstrapping the grammar >Uri Guttman had some thoughts

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2004-09-22 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-09-17 Another week, another summary, and I'm running late. So: This week in perl6-compiler The current state of the compiler Discussion of the current state of the nascent perl 6 compiler and how best to contribute to its development even b

Re: This week's summary

2004-09-13 Thread Gregory Keeney
The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Namespaces (Am I the only person who wants to repeat Namespaces! with the same intonation used for 'Monorail!' in the Simpsons?) Not any more...

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2004-09-13 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
This week on perl6-compiler Yes you read that right; development of the Perl 6 compiler now has its own mailing list. Hopefully, in the coming weeks, the current perl6-internals list will get renamed parrot-internals to reflect that split. As I write this, groups.google.com has

This week's Summary

2004-09-06 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-09-03 Another week, a free weekend, and still I haven't started writing the summary until Monday. Still, I don't actually start at college 'til next week, so that's all right then. We start with perl6-internals. Compile op with return

This Week's Summary

2004-09-02 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
NB: The links are probably broken at present. Normal service will hopefully be resumed once Google gets caught up with the perl6 lists. The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-08-27 Where does the time go? I blame folk festivals. Once I'm getting busy with the teacher training I'm goin

RE: This week's summary

2004-07-29 Thread Simon Glover
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Butler, Gerald wrote: > > Of course American and Right are synonymous! Just ask OUR WONDERFUL GOD (I > mean President) GEORGE W. BUSH. He'll tell ya' > OK, gentlemen, this is both way off topic and starting to head into flame war territory, so I suggest that we either qu

RE: This week's summary

2004-07-29 Thread Butler, Gerald
L PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: This week's summary Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Piers Cawley wrote: >> Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>Care to explain what those are, O great math tea

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-29 Thread Piers Cawley
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Piers Cawley wrote: >> Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>Care to explain what those are, O great math teacher? >> What's a math teacher? > > It's the right^H^H^H^H^HAmerican way to say "maths teacher". You mean American

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-28 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 2004-07-28 at 20:55:28, Piers Cawley wrote: > What's a math teacher? Oh, come now. You may refuse to *use* the Leftpondian short form, but pretending not to *recognize* it is a bit much. :) -- Mark REED| CNN Internet Technology 1 CNN Center Rm SW0831G | [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-28 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Piers Cawley wrote: Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Care to explain what those are, O great math teacher? What's a math teacher? It's the right^H^H^H^H^HAmerican way to say "maths teacher". -- Brent "Dax" Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perl and Parrot hacker Oceania has alway

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-28 Thread Piers Cawley
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: >> The infinite thread >> Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at >> least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack >> surreal numbers into Perl 6.1 then

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-27 Thread Michele Dondi
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: > The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > > The infinite thread > > Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at > > least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack > > surreal numbers into Perl 6.1 t

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-26 Thread Kurt Starsinic
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:29:15 -0700, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > > The infinite thread > > Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at > > least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack > >

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-26 Thread Stéphane Payrard
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 10:29:15AM -0700, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: > The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > > The infinite thread > >Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at > >least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack > >surreal numbers

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-26 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: The infinite thread Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack surreal numbers into Perl 6.1 then that would be cool. Care to explain what those are, O great math tea

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2004-07-26 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-07-25 Monday morning, all's well, and Piers sits down at his desk to bash out another in his ongoing series of Perl 6 Summaries. I've just realised that I missed noting the second anniversary of my writing these summaries. It came up a mo

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-22 Thread Austin Hastings
--- The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, so the interview was on Tuesday 13th of July. > It went well; I'm going to be a maths teacher. "As usual, we begin with maths-geometry: In Mathematics last week, one Pythagoras suggested there might be a relationship between the sides

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-21 Thread Piers Cawley
Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Okay, so the interview was on Tuesday 13th of July. >> It went well; I'm going to be a maths teacher. [...] > As we all know, time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a > banana. If you

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2004-07-20 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-07-18 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 filled with the

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2004-07-12 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-07-10 Another week down, another summer summary. On a Monday no less. Last week I even managed to get the summary to the mailing lists before the Perl 5 Porters summary. I may have been even more surprised that Rafael by that. Let's see if

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2004-07-05 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-07-04 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 he'

Re: This week's Summary

2004-07-01 Thread Leopold Toetsch
The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Congratulations Ion, don't forget to send in a patch to the CREDITS > file. $ grep -1 Ion CREDITS N: Ion Alexandru Morega D: string.pmc Thanks again for your summary, leo

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2004-06-29 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-06-27 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 you are

Re: This week's summary

2004-05-26 Thread a. c. yardley
lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 10:07 AM Subject: This week's summary The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 2004-05-23 Yes. I know. This week's summary is a week late. So it's a summary of the last two weeks. So let

This week's summary

2004-05-26 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 2004-05-23 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 ev

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2004-05-11 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-05-09 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

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2004-05-05 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-05-02 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 (and no, rapper does not involve large shouty men wearing p

Re: This week's Summary

2004-04-28 Thread Leopold Toetsch
The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Passing arrays of structs to NCI subs Is working in the meantime. > Separating allocation and initialization of objects > Last week, Leo posted the latest object benchmarks, and things were > fast. But there was one test where Python

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2004-04-28 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-04-25 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

Re: This week's Summary

2004-04-08 Thread Piers Cawley
Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Subroutine calls >> Leo announced that he's added a "pmc_const" opcode to parrot. The idea >> being that, [ ... ] >> you would instead fetch a preexisting Subroutine PMC >> from the

Re: This week's Summary

2004-04-07 Thread Leopold Toetsch
The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subroutine calls > Leo announced that he's added a "pmc_const" opcode to parrot. The idea > being that, [ ... ] > you would instead fetch a preexisting Subroutine PMC > from the PMC constant pool. Not quite. I've implemented it

This week's Summary

2004-04-07 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
but you'll get a fortnight's summary the week after, because I'm good to you like that. We'll start this week's summary with perl6-internals. MMD vtable functions in bytecode Dan had announced that he was working on adding parrot bytecode support fo

This week's summary

2004-03-29 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-03-28 ... and we're back! Another interesting week in Perl 6. Your Summarizer even wrote some [parrot] code and it's been simply ages since he did that. In accordance with ancient custom, we'll start the summary with perl6-internals. Bu

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2004-03-22 Thread Piers Cawley
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-03-21 Spring is sprung, the Equinoctal gales seem to have blown themselves out, I'm a proud step grandfather and life is generally grand. "So, what's been going on in perl6-internals?" I hear you ask. Let's find out shall we? Parrot gr

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2004-03-16 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-03-14 Another week, another summary. It's been a pretty active week so, with a cunningly mixed metaphor, we'll dive straight into the hive of activity that is perl6-internals. Benchmarking Discussion and development of Sebastien Riedel'

Re: This week's summary

2004-03-09 Thread Jerome Quelin
The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > Parrotbug reaches 0.0.1 > Jerome Quelin responded to Dan's otherwise ignored request for a > parrot equivalent of perlbug when he offered an implementation of > parrotbug for everyone's perusal, but didn't go so far to add it to > the distribution. I don't think i

Re: This week's summary

2004-03-08 Thread Brent \"Dax\" Royal-Gordon
Leopold Toetsch wrote: The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It turned out to be a simple matter of unimplemented functions, which he and Leo rapidly implemented. s/he and Leo/he/ I was just the one hitting Ctrl-C Ctrl-V. (Actually, I was using the mouse, since I was working

Re: This week's summary

2004-03-08 Thread Leopold Toetsch
The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good news! Bad news! > Good news! Dan says the infrastructure is in place to do delegated > method calls for vtable functions with objects. Bad news! It doesn't > actually work That's solved already. You can override e.g. "inc Px" w

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2004-03-08 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-03-07 Time marches on, and another summary gets written, sure as eggs are eggs and chromatic is a chap with whom I will never start a sentence. We start, as always, with perl6-internals. Platform games Work continued this week on expand

Re: This week's summary

2004-03-02 Thread Leopold Toetsch
The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040229 > Native PBC issues > It turns out that, just at the moment, Parrot bytecode isn't actually > platform independent. This will, of course, get fixed, but it's not > Leo's top priority at

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2004-03-01 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040229 Welcome to the leapday summary. We'll crack straight on with perl6-internals Running up to release time As Leapday had been chosen as the release date for Parrot 0.1.0, the week was mostly spent getting things ready for release. A c

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2004-02-26 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040222 Welcome to the latest belated Perl 6 Summary. I'm running late, so we'll just dive straight into perl6-internals Loading bytecode at runtime Last week Dan had specced out the rules for runtime loading of bytecode. This week, Leo Töt

This week's summary delayed

2004-02-23 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
I'm afraid that this week's summary won't be posted until at least Wednesday. Sorry.

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2004-02-17 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040215 In his talk on Parrot at OSCON last year, Dan said that Parrot would have objects 'by the end of the week'. It's been a very long week, and it's not finished yet. Right, venting over, time for the summary. I'll start with perl6-in

Re: This week's summary

2004-02-10 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Scott) writes: > On 10 Feb 2004, at 14:09, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > > I wonder how long it'll be before someone reimplements > > them in in PIR... > > or Perl6 perchance. Well, Perl6::Rules should be coming out soon, so that should help. -- The problem with

Re: This week's summary

2004-02-10 Thread Michael Scott
On 10 Feb 2004, at 14:09, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: I wonder how long it'll be before someone reimplements them in in PIR... or Perl6 perchance.

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2004-02-10 Thread Leopold Toetsch
The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Backward branch, Warnocked > Sadly the answer was "We're not sure when it'll be fixed, it's really > hard to fix Its already fixed. Thanks for your summary, leo

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2004-02-10 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040208 Another Monday evening. Another day of displacement activity out of the way. There's a huge lump of belly pork braising slowly in a mixture of stock, rice wine & soy sauce, and nothing on the telly. It must be time to write the Perl 6

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2004-02-03 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040201 Welcome once again to Gateshead, where the skies are grey, the view is uninspiring, and the workmen across the road seem determined to fall off the ladder before they get the double glazing fitted. But enough of the gay Gateshead life

Re: This week's summary

2004-02-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:03 AM +0100 1/29/04, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: At 10:40 +0100 1/28/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: The costs of sharing Leo Töposted a test program and some results for timing the difference between using shared and unshared PMCs. ... Hopefully the benchmar

Re: This week's summary

2004-01-29 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Elizabeth Mattijsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:40 +0100 1/28/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >>$ time parrot shared_ref.pasm >> >>real0m0.375s > Ah.. I want a Ponie! ;-) Actually some bits are still missing: - The SharedRef construction code has to ensure that the refered PMC is share

Re: This week's summary

2004-01-28 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
At 10:40 +0100 1/28/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: The costs of sharing Leo Töposted a test program and some results for timing the difference between using shared and unshared PMCs. ... Hopefully the benchmark will get checked into examples/benchmarks as sug

Re: This week's summary

2004-01-28 Thread Leopold Toetsch
The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: The costs of sharing Leo Töposted a test program and some results for timing the difference between using shared and unshared PMCs. ... Hopefully the benchmark will get checked into examples/benchmarks as suggested by Luke earlier. Done now. $ time perl58

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2004-01-27 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040125 Welcome to the first summary from my new home in Gateshead. The same old wibble, with a different view from its window and fewer trips to London. Right, time to see what's been going on in perl6-internals this week. Global labels in IMC

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2004-01-20 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
Ops file hints Leo had a list of suggestions for extra data that he thinks needs to go into the ops files. Dan agreed with everything on the list and added a todo item to the Parrot RT queue. http://tinyurl.com/3h8za Meanwhile in perl6-language run-once code David Storrs wan

Re: This week's summary

2004-01-14 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:36 PM -0500 1/13/04, Uri Guttman wrote: > "TP6S" == The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TP6S> Congratulations Dan TP6S> Melvin Smith offered his congratulations to Dan for the TP6S> first commercial use of Parrot. I think I can safely say we TP6S> al

Re: This week's summary

2004-01-13 Thread Uri Guttman
> "TP6S" == The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TP6S> Congratulations Dan TP6S> Melvin Smith offered his congratulations to Dan for the TP6S> first commercial use of Parrot. I think I can safely say we TP6S> all echo those congratulations. shouldn't that

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2004-01-13 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040111 It's Monday. People have been talking about Perl 6, Parrot and the European Union Constitution. Let's find out what they've been saying about Parrot first shall we? Threads Threads were discussed some more. Dan's deadline is coming

Re: This week's summary

2004-01-05 Thread Harry Jackson
The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Problems with "make test" Harry Jackson couldn't get his build of parrot to finish running "make test". After a certain amount of thrashing about by the team, Dan narrowed it down to issues with the mutant '2.96' version of GCC that some versions of Re

Re: This week's summary

2004-01-05 Thread Piers Cawley
Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 09:30 PM 1/5/2004 +, Piers Cawley wrote: >>Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > At 07:55 PM 1/5/2004 +0100, Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote: >> >>The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > people's salaries will depend on

Re: This week's summary

2004-01-05 Thread Melvin Smith
At 09:30 PM 1/5/2004 +, Piers Cawley wrote: Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 07:55 PM 1/5/2004 +0100, Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote: >>The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > people's salaries will depend on Parrot. I confess I wouldn't be >> > surprised if, b

Re: This week's summary

2004-01-05 Thread Piers Cawley
Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 07:55 PM 1/5/2004 +0100, Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote: >>The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > people's salaries will depend on Parrot. I confess I wouldn't be >> > surprised if, by the end of the year, we haven't seen the full

Re: This week's summary

2004-01-05 Thread Piers Cawley
Lars Balker Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Me? I think Perl 6's design 'in the large' will be pretty much >> done once Apocalypse 12 and its corresponding Exegesis are >> finished. Of course, the devil is in the details, but

Re: This week's summary

2004-01-05 Thread Melvin Smith
At 07:55 PM 1/5/2004 +0100, Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote: The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > people's salaries will depend on Parrot. I confess I wouldn't be > surprised if, by the end of the year, we haven't seen the full > implementation of at least one of the big non-

Re: This week's summary

2004-01-05 Thread Lars Balker Rasmussen
The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Me? I think Perl 6's design 'in the large' will be pretty much done once > Apocalypse 12 and its corresponding Exegesis are finished. Of course, > the devil is in the details, but I don't doubt that the hoped for > existence of a w

This week's summary

2004-01-05 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040104 What a surprise, a scant week after the last Perl 6 Summary of 2003, it's the first Perl 6 Summary of 2004. Will wonders never cease? Without further ado, we'll start with perl6-internals as usual. Garbage Collection Tasks Dan noted

This week's summary

2003-12-30 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20031228 It's the last Perl 6 Summary of 2003 already. Where did the year go? A large part of my year went down the plughole in the great double disk disaster which saw about 3 years of mail, a few gigabytes of photos and my entire summary arc

Re: This week's summary

2003-12-26 Thread Michael Joyce
Thank you for a lovely Christmas Present. Michael On Dec 24, 2003, at 2:37 AM, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20031221 Welcome one and all to the penultimate Perl 6 Summary for 2003. The nights are long, the air is cold, freezing fog made the journey

Re: This week's summary

2003-12-25 Thread Piers Cawley
Michael Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thank you for a lovely Christmas Present. Any time.

This week's summary

2003-12-24 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20031221 Welcome one and all to the penultimate Perl 6 Summary for 2003. The nights are long, the air is cold, freezing fog made the journey home from watching *The Return of the King* a deeply fraught experience (though probably not as fraught

Re: This week's summary

2003-12-16 Thread Piers Cawley
Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Piers Cawley writes: >> The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > >> > http://groups.google.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> This should, of course, read: >> >> http://groups.google.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or even: > > http://groups.google.c

Re: This week's summary

2003-12-16 Thread Luke Palmer
Piers Cawley writes: > The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Vocabulary > > If you're even vaguely interested in the workings of Perl 6's object > > system, you need to read the referenced post. > > > > Luke Palmer, worrying about people using Object related vocabulary

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