Greetings from the city that will host The (European) Perl Conference this week. A lot colder and wetter than yours truly got used to the past 6 weeks. It takes a little getting used to.
FOSDEM 2019 – Call for Speakers
Wendy van Dijk has issued a Call for Speakers for the Perl DevRoom at next year’s FOSDEM in Brussels (2/3 February 2019). This would be a good time to send in your Perl 6 related talk proposals!
Blog Posts
- Why I still think Camelia is a mistake by Benji.
- Small stuff #5: Gather around, it’s time to get lazy (…but why?) by Jo Christian Oterhals.
- The 100 Day Plan: The Update on Perl 6.d Preparations by Zoffix Znet.
- Small stuff #6: Century — a new name for a hundred-year language? by Jo Christian Otherhals.
- Building Cordova packages for UWP using VSTS and Sparrowdo by Alexey Melezhik.
- Perl 6 By Example by Benjamin Frady (Reddit comments).
Core Developments
More about that next week when yours truly is less tired.
Meanwhile on Twitter
- Grammar
ruleauto-complete by Jonathan Worthington. - Materiel de promotion de Perl 6 by Mongueurs de Perl.
- Same thing in Perl 6 by Zoffix Znet.
- Interesting paper on
OSRby Jonathan Worthington. - Obvious in hindsight by Jonathan Worthington.
- Writing single core apps is silly by Zoffix Znet.
- Happy? Or not so much? by Zoffix Znet.
- Not so random Perl 6 by Moritz Lenz.
- Toasting very widely by Zoffix Znet.
- Still makes my day by JJ Merelo.
- Marketing alias info by Zoffix Znet.
- Cpannican view by The Perl Shop.
- Interesting by Simon Proctor.
- Isn’t widespread enough to recommend by ryn1x.
Meanwhile on FaceBook
- Thank you by Wendy van Dijk.
- At Wacken by Wendy van Dijk.
- Nice series of blogs by Wendy van Dijk.
- Cloud Perl 6 Interpreter by Chris Jack.
Meanwhile on StackOverflow
- Changing
$*DISTROvalues for testing by JJ Merelo. - Changing a class variable from outside the class by JJ Merelo.
- List repetition (
xx) without evaluation? by Jo King. - Why Rakudo Star for Windows still compiled/linked for exact FS locaton (c:\rakudo)? by gapsf.
Meanwhile on perl6-users
- Force integers in an array? by ToddAndMargo.
- string to integer? by ToddAndMargo.
- Why use
ddto convert a string to an integer? by ToddAndMargo. - RE: return code? by Mark Devine.
- Is there a limit to a
s/? by ToddAndMargo. Data::Dump::Treemaintenance by JJ Merelo.- Making sure Perl 6 is in all of the Wikipedia examples articles by Benji.
- Special token names, or my mistake by yary.
Perl 6 in comments
- A piece of sample code by athenot.
- Already taken by Roboprog.
- Fibonacci sequence, with cache by Zoffix Znet.
- Fix it permanently. Like Perl 6 by kamaal.
- So many cool things by Mutant321.
- Subclassing a grammar – a bit crazy by dan-robertson.
- Future versions of macro’s by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
- From a Perl 67 flyer by grokify.
- Without having to parse “another language” by setr.
- Similar to Perl 6 by hpcjoe.
- Fun Fact by Dave Rolsky.
Perl 6 Modules
New Modules:
- AttrX::Mooish by Vadim Belman.
- Attribute::Predicate, Method::Also by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
Updated Modules:
- DateTime::DST, GetOpt::ForClass, Amazon::DynamoDB by Sterling Hanenkamp.
- CamelPub by Don Park.
- Test::HTTP::Server by Simon Proctor.
- MeCab by Itsuki Toyota.
- PDF::Class, HTML::Canvas by David Warring.
- Digest::BubbleBabble by Ben Davies.
- Async::Command by Mark Devine.
- Sparrowdo::VSTS::YAML::Cordova by Aleksei Melezhik.
Winding Down
As predicted last week, this week’s Perl 6 Weekly is slightly later and smaller than usual. Hopefully next week yours truly will have more time while feeling better. So, see you next week!
Weekly changes in and around Raku (Née Perl 6) 