Off to Portland...

My plane to Portland is taking off in a few hours.  So, short recaps:

• fglock++ is hacking relentlessly on the next generation of Perl6-to-Perl5 emitter, incorporating type constraints and autoboxing into the mix.
• lanny++ fixed Perl6::Doc's Makefile.PL to work with nmake 1.5. This reminds me that we still need to upload it to CPAN separately as a replacement to the horribly outdated Perl6::Bible.
• andara++ continues to tune runpugs to avoid exhausting the dreaded resource limits. Help welcome, especially for some Ajaxy sugar to make it as sexy as tryruby...

Some short term post-release plans:

• Drop support for GHC 6.4.1, as soon as ghc-6.6 (with extralibs) makes it to Debian and FreeBSD.  The build system is haunted by workarounds for old semi-broken Haskell Cabal versions, and I'd be very happy to get rid of them.
• Integrate the MOH (Meta Objects in Haskell) codebase, a port of the MO (Meta Objects in Perl) framework currently being worked on by cmarcelo++and nothingmuch++, into Pugs itself so we can finally provide useful introspection like $obj.^methods.
• Rewrite the multi dispatcher to use new-style Capture/Signature objects. They are already available as literal expressions in 6.2.13 thanks to gaal++, but normal sub foo () {...} declarations need to be switched to use them as well.

However, let jag may take precedence as usual. We'll see how fast I recover this time... :-)

Comments

[thickas]

s/let\s+jag # anagrams that sometimes produce apropos of the original are startling: "The eyes" => "They see"/jet lag/x

I really enjoy your summarising the news of Perl 6 (and am grateful that you make the news too) !

Thank you very much.