Exegesis 7
Editor’s note: this document is out of date and remains here for historic interest.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…
This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-02-22
Loading bytecode at runtime Last week Dan had specced out the rules for runtime loading of bytecode. This week, Leo Tötsch started implementing it. There was a certain amount of quibbling about syntax, but that was quickly sorted out….
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-02-15
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…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-02-08
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…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-02-01
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…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-01-25
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….
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-01-11
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 up soon,…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-01-04
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…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-12-07
Another week, another late summary. Luckily it’s been a quiet week so I should get this written faster than usual. As is traditional, we start with perl6-internals Parrot build system tinkering Andy Dougherty and other discussed extending the Parrot build…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-11-30
Welcome back to the weekly Perl 6 Summary, which I’m hoping to keep on a weekly cycle for the foreseeable future. It’s been a relatively low volume week this week, I’m assuming that Thanksgiving had something to do with…
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This fortnight on Perl 6, week ending 2003-11-23
Right, hopefully things are back to normal(ish) after the disk crashes that rather spoilt the last summary. I’ve managed to fill in my mail archive too so this summary will cover the events of the last fortnight (that’s two…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-11-09
Traditionally this paragraph concerns itself with a few words on what I’ve been up to before finally settling down to get the summary written. But despite the fact that it’s nearly four o’clock, it’s been one of those days…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-11-02
It’s Monday morning, the croissants have been baked, the focaccia is glistening with all the extra virgin olive oil I poured on it as it left the oven and, in the airing cupboard, a raisin borodinsky slouches towards full…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-10-26
Where does the time go? It seems like only yesterday that I was sat hiding Leon Brocard in the first letters of the first 11 body paragraphs of the last summary. Now, here I am, on the train, typing…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-10-19
Lumme! Another week, another summary. Every week (almost) we start with the perl6-internals list, so here goes. An Evil task for the interested Our Glorious Leader, Dan Sugalski, last week asked for volunteers to work on making ordered destruction…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-10-12
Good afternoon readers. You find me sitting comfortably and tired after a vaguely frantic week involving large amounts of new (and huge) equipment, the delivery of a new Mini Cooper, and four days offline at a large format photography…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-09-21
Deadlines, I love the sound they make as they fly past. Those of you who receive this summary via mail may have noticed that this summary is a little late, with any luck it will make up for its…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-09-07
Welcome to the last Perl 6 summary of my 35th year. Next week’s summary will (in theory) be written on my 36th birthday (a year of being square, so no change there then). I’ll give you fair warning that…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-08-31
Welcome to this week’s Perl 6 summary. This week, for one week only I’m going to break with a long established summary tradition. No, that doesn’t mean I won’t be mentioning Leon Brocard this week. Nope, this week we’re going…
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-08-17
Picture, if you will a sunny garden, unaffected by power cuts, floods, plagues of frog or any of the other troubles that assail us in this modern world. Picture, if you will, your summarizer, sat in this garden with…
