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The Perl 6 Development Log
Maintainer: Simon Cozens <simon@brecon.co.uk> Date: Sep 24 2000 Mailing List: perl6-internals@perl.org Number: 281 Version: 1 Status: Developing
Proposes a way of creating a specification for Perl 6 internals and getting a development log and internals documentation for free.
Perl 5's internals are a scary place, and it's probable that Perl 6's are going to be at least mildly scary as well. Since we're planning to have a lot of people working on the guts, we need a lot of people to know how they work, and this means good guts documentation. Here's how we do it.
Dan, or whoever, produces the specifications for the internals, and this gets hammered out right down to the function level. We split this thing up into the files the functions will go into, and we have a document per file.
As people implement the functions, they add to the file, noting who they are, what they've done, when they did it and what approach they took. Some of this can probably be automated. As people make changes to the functions in the future, they also add to the log.
This means we've got a document for each file which explains what the function's supposed to do, how it fits in to the grand scheme of things, why it's coded as it is, and how it's developed.
JFDI.
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