2018.34 A Quick One From Tyndrum

While enjoying some touristic activities in the Northern parts of Scotland (well, North of Glasgow anyway), this Perl 6 Weekly comes from the town of Tyndrum. According to the Wikipedia article:

Thus unusually there are two stations serving the same small village, only a few hundred yards apart, but about 10 miles (16 km) apart by rail.

Which yours truly finds oddly descriptive of the situation in the Perl community: so close, yet seen as so far apart by some.

The Perl Conference in Glasgow

And what an excellent conference it was! And live-streamed as well all over the world. Some blog reports have already surfaced, all of them referencing Perl 6 in some form or another:

• The Perl Conference in Glasgow by Dave Cross.
• The European Perl Conference in Glasgow by Lance Wicks.
• The Perl Conference in Glasgow – Report by Mohammad S Anwar.
• My First Perl Conference by Sam Anderson.
• Perl is Perl by JJ Merelo.
• My First Perl Conference by Simon Proctor.

By next week, there will be separate videos for each presentation. Until then, you will have to do with the raw recorded live-streams.

Alas, not all things where hunky dory: Mark Keating issued a formal apology for things that had gone wrong (Reddit comments).

Other Blog Posts

• TIO are looking into installing Perl 6 modules incl. IP5! 🙂 Which modules would we like? by Ralph Mellor.
• I’m writing an ORM for Perl 6 and I’d love some comments by Fernando Correa de Oliveira.
• Garbage Collection in Perl 6 by Elizabeth Mattijsen (Reddit comments).
• The first public release by Timo Paulssen.
• Macro’s and Perl 6 by bobthecimmerian.

Core Developments

Alas, too much R&R to dive into this with the appropriate amount of depth and precision. Hopefully next week a 3-week overview.

Meanwhile on Twitter

• More complaints about Camelia by Joelle Maslak.
• Riga Again! by Kenichi Ishigaki.
• 56 minutes by Joelle Maslak.
• JJ Broke Everything by Granada PM4.
• It’s working! by Zoffix Znet.
• Incrementing a Camel by Joelle Maslak.
• The Book Cover by brian d foy.
• $a == 1 && $a == 2 && $a == 3 by Andrew Shitov.
• Massive Camelia by Sam Anderson.
• In Production by Joelle Maslak.
• 1300 issues closed by JJ Merelo.
• Receiving a BGP open by Joelle Maslak.
• Never Do That by Moritz Lenz.
• A different point of View by JJ Merelo.
• Not yet by JJ Merelo.
• Filling in details by The Perl Shop.

Meanwhile on FaceBook

• Olga Kovalska++ by Wendy van Dijk.
• I didn’t know Perl  could do that! by Jeff Goff.

Meanwhile on StackOverflow

• Sub MAIN / command line Parsing by Beuss.
• Why don’t new operator definitions persist in the REPL? by Daniel Mita.
• More concise way to build a configuration class using environment variables? by wbn.
• How to add an attribute to an object using the meta-object protocol? by Håkon Hægland.

Meanwhile on PerlMonks

• The Future of Perl 5 by Laurent Rosenfeld (Reddit comments).

Meanwhile on perl6-users

• I need the rules for running modules from the command line by ToddAndMargo.
• How do I test my substitutions? by ToddAndMargo.
• Perl 6 POSIX IEEE Std 1003.1 by Mark Devine.
• Curious effects in debugging by Theo van den Heuvel.
• How do I write this? by Todd Chester.
• Tip: grep and sed stopped working by Todd Chester.

Perl 6 in comments

• Rebranding won’t gain much by bobthecimmerian.
• Arcane examples by Zoffix Znet.
• Nice built-in CLI construction by slobotron.
• Works well with all programming styles by kamaal.
• More verbose and slower by Ralph Mellor.
• Gently scales up by Ralph Mellor.
• Just going to leave this here by MattEOates.
• So dead that they can not even move into a better perl by shevegen.

Perl 6 Modules

New Modules:

• Range::SetOps, Trait::Env by Simon Proctor.
• Array::Circular by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• Term::ReadKey by Jonas Kramer.
• Sparrowdo::Cordova::OSx::Build by Aleksei Melezhik.

Updated Modules:

• AttrX::Mooish by Vadim Belman.
• Sparrowdo, Sparrowdo::VSTS::YAML::Cordova by Aleksei Melezhik.
• Test::HTTP::Server by Simon Proctor.

Winding Down

Having done a whole-day workshop + a last-minute presentation has taken a lot of energy from your truly. Good thing the weather cooperated for a time by being typical late-summer weather for Glasgow. Please check in again next week for more Perl 6 news!