This week's summary

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

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-11-27 Another week passes. Another summary is written. Another sentence remains steadfastly in the passive voice. This week in perl6-compiler Perl 5 tests for PGE::P5Regexp Jerry Gay announced that he'd checked in a subset of perl 5.9.2's r

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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

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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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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.

Um... this week's summary

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

This week's summary. Part 1

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_job on Thursday nig

This weeks summary, part 2

The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 2006-02-12 Did I say Thursday night? What was I thinking? Blame Nikon for finally delivering my D200; or just blame me for being a lazy git who spent Thursday night recovering from the drive home from Liverpool and Friday playing with a new toy

Re: Perl Summarizing

"Matt Fowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the hopes of inspiring someone to take my place, I would like to > encourage any interested party to just start summarizing and thus > become the official perl 6 summarizer. Strongly seconded! > NB - I do not assume to speak for Piers in this, so int

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-05-24 Note to self: It's generally not a good idea to go installing Tiger on the day you return from holiday. It's especially not a good idea to fail to check that it didn't completely and utterly radish your Postfix configuration. And you

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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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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

This week's summary, correctly formatted

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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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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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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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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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

Summary for the last 3 weeks

The Perl 6 Summary from 2005-08-24 to 2005-09-11 It's been a while hasn't it? We'll start as usual with perl6-compiler This week in perl6-compiler Changed "??::" to "??!!" in Pugs Following discussion of the ternary operator in perl6-language, Benjamin Smith altered pugs to use

Summary rollover date

I thought we'd switched to a Monday deadline for the summary and a Sunday night roll over. I just noticed your last summary ended on a Monday night. -- Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.bofh.org.uk/

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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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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

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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

Summary for the week ending 2005-04-12

The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-04-12 Whoa! Deja vu! Where'd Matt go? Don't worry, Matt's still writing summaries. As you may have noticed, Matt's been writing summaries every two weeks. And now so am I. Because we love you, we've decided to arrange things so I write su

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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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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-04-04 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, but you'll get

This fortnight's summary

The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 2004-04-18 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 take my lumps. I am

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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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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

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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

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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 ever patch, which upd

This fortnight's summary

The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 2004-06-06 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 all over the screen like

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The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 20040621 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, dancing and generally mak

This week's Summary

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

This week's summary

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

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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'

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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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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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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

This "week"'s summary

The Perl 6 Summary for the six days ending 2004-07-31 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 i

This "week"'s summary

The Perl 6 Summary for the six days ending 2004-08-06 Another short week and the rollover point is now set to Friday nights in preparation for September when I'll almost certainly not have weeknights free. (Of course, I don't expect the summary will be coming out any earlier in the

Absence of summary

You may have noticed that the mailing lists weren't working for a large chunk of last week. So I'm taking a break in summarizing this week. I'll catch up next week.

This fortnight's summary

The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 2004-08-20 Harrumph. Note to self; never miss a week when you could actually have written the summary. I lulled myself into a false sense of security with the quiet week for the last summary. The last two weeks have been rather more busy a

This Week's Summary

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

I tried, I really did, but I'm afraid that I must raise the white flag to my teacher training for the next while and give up writing the Perl 6 Summary until at least after Christmas. I've had a great time doing this for the last two and a half years, I hope you've all enjoyed it too. It's been a

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20031114 Evening all. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin. Undoubtedly, over the last week, some or all of the following happened: * Dan Sugalski thought about design, and maybe even nailed a few more things down. * Leo

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The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 20031123 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 weeks

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The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 20031130 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 it (I hope tho

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The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 20031207 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 ext

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20031214 It looks like things are starting to slow down slightly as we run up to Christmas, but the quality of discussion remains high. We'll start with the usual trawl through perl6-internals. Testing for null Dan ruled on last week's discu

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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

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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

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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

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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

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The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040118 I hope you'll forgive the lack of banter before we start in on perl6-internals. Threads. Again. Still more proposals about threads this week. Jeff Clites offered some notes based on the Java Virtual Machine's threading model. Surpri

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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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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

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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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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

This week's summary delayed

I'm afraid that this week's summary won't be posted until at least Wednesday. Sorry.

This week's summary

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

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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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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

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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'

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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