Beginning PMCs

One of the best things about Parrot is that it’s not just for Perl implementors. Parrot 0.0.3 came with support for extensible data types that can be used to implement the types used in your favorite language. The mechanism…

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Apocalypse 4

Editor’s Note: this Apocalypse is out of date and remains here for historic reasons. See Synopsis 04 for the latest information. Table of Contents Accepted RFCs RFC 022: Control flow: Builtin switch statement Table 1: Matching a switch value…

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Exegesis 3

Editor’s note: this document is out of date and remains here for historic interest. See Synopsis 3 for the current design information. Diamond lives (context-aware); Underscore space means concatenate; fat comma means pair; A pre-star will flatten; colon-equals will…

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Apocalypse 3

Editor’s Note: this Apocalypse is out of date and remains here for historic reasons. See Synopsis 03 for the latest information. Table of Contents • RFC 025: Operators: Multiway comparisons • RFC 320: Allow grouping of -X file tests…

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This Week in Perl 6 (27 May - 2 June 2001)

3 June 2001 Notes You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending an empty message to perl6-digest-subscribe@netthink.co.uk. Please send corrections and additions to perl6-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org, where YYYYMM is the current year and month. It was a…

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