On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 01:25:58AM -0500, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
> Simon's preoccupied.
Aye. Book deadline due next week. You'll be lucky to hear anything
from me until then. And when I do get back, I'm going to be starting
planning compiler front-end stuff.
> An updated TODO list is needed. As is maybe a reminder on bugs.perl.org.
The "problem", as far as I see it, is that people like playing with
cool things. Now, I'm all for cool things, and I'm really, really
impressed with the cool things that people are playing with. The
stuff that Gregor and Daniel are doing with the JIT is really exciting.
(Have you played with parrot -j yet? Do it, it's great.)
The things that I want to happen for 0.0.4 are not sexy. They are
definitely not cool things, so I don't exactly expect people to be
jumping at the chance to do them. That's fine. However, what I really
would like to see happening as well as all the cool things are:
Support for hashes. (I think Jeff's nearly got this.)
Many more of the PMC methods implemented.
UTF support to become as well-implemented as the native stuff.
I'd actually also like to see at least one Python and maybe one Scheme
data type in core, just so that we know we can deal properly with non-Perl
stuff.
Simon
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