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Welcome to another Perl 6 summary. In this summary, we will explore such thrilling issues as multi-dimensional slices of Chinese food. After all, the amount of sauce any piece of Chinese food can absorb is proportional to its surface area, which is a direct function of the number of dimensions in which it is sliced (provided that we ignore degenerate cases like fractal cuts of Peking duck).
Craig DeForest wondered how to disambiguate a 1x6 2D array slice from a 6 element 1D array slice. He suggested a syntax inspired by PDL. Larry admitted to not having examined this particular issue and stated that he was open to suggestions. Some suggestions arrived.
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St\xE9phane Payrard wanted to know if there is an easy way to alias arguments to a function. Thus allowing a longer version for readability when calling the function and a short version inside the function. Larry suggested $s is named<subject>, which I like. The thread then devolved into punning in French.
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Sven Schubert asked about the feasibility of putting Pascal on Parrot. He noted that with the infrastructure mentioned in "Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials" the problem would not be too bad. Apparently "Essentials" makes a few promises that we have yet to live up to. But we are working towards it. In the mean time, St\xE9phane Payrard suggested a way for him to kill to bird with one stone: Pcode.
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Luke Blanshard submitted some rules for Perl6::Grammar. Luke Palmer committed a slight variantion of his work, and the hacking commences...
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Peter Christopher wondered why pop_pad had not been implemented last week. This week Leo implemented it and asked for tests.
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Simon Glover asked why ResizablePMCArray was so different from all of it Resizable*Array bretheren. The answer is the Leo improved it. This brings up an obvious task for someone looking for a reasonably friendly chunk of Parrot to work on. Rationalizing the implementation of the various Resizable*Arrays would probably be a good task for a novice looking to dig into something. Perhaps one who is on winter break...
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Ian Joyce noticed that parrot 0.1.1 was having some trouble with nci.t. Leo admitted that this was the case, but it is fixed in CVS.
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Nicholas Clark wondered if resizablestringarray.t was actually a benchmark, because it had a big number which was really hurting his poor machine. Simon Glover admitted to the copy paste error.
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Andy Bach and Nicholas Clark worked towards getting parrot happier on the aforementioned architecture. This thread seemed to peter out when Nicholas asked "how do we run a callback unconditionally after gccversion is known, independent of its value?".
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Leo and Sam had a disagreement about whether a call_method vtable would make sense. I think that we are waiting for higher intervention...
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Will Coleda applied Bernhard's patch updating perlhist.txt and streams.t.
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Will Coleda applied the long Warnocked update to Warnock's contact information with only a trace of irony.
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Simon Glover got perlarray.pmc to have full test coverage. Nifty. Some brave soul (possibly fitting an earlier description) should try this with the Fixed*Arrays...
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Nicholas Clark, Andy Doughery, and Christian Aperghis-Tramoni all tried to convince Parrot to work on Solaris. They are brave souls.
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Peter Christopher asked questions about the parrot-config.imc. He also provided an initial solution.
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Simon Glover noticed some bad behavior with respect to Key PMCs. Leo and Sam both admitted that it was bad and that some work needed to be done.
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Bernhard Schmalhofer posted a pointer to PDL. Luke Palmer pondered Piddles as Parrot PMCs. Craig DeForest proposed a path passing through PDL's PP and pausing at Parrot. (Parenthetically, perhaps the preponderance of Ps in Perl, Parrot, and Python should push me to alliterate with another available letter.)
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Henrik Gulbrandsen introduced the powerful Parrot Syntax Engine. Leo asked a few questions to which Henrik provided answers. All in all, it looks really cool and makes me a little jealous that I did not develop the Tomita algorithm first.
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Bernhard Schmalhofer moved libnci.so to libnci_test.so, as it really is for testing. Leo applied it.
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Matt Diephouse managed to segfault Parrot using readline. Leo fixed it. Matt pointed out a new bug that it introduced.
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Matt Diephouse noticed that taking a substring of an invalid range had odd results. Simor Glover provided a bunch of tests for it. Leo applied the patch, but mentioned that these corner cases needed to be hammered out authoritatively.
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