Re^3: OO in Perl 6

[doom]

While it is true that the Perl 6 design is still floating around a bit, the switch from "->" to "." is pretty much engraved in stone.

If you really want to keep track of what's going on with perl 6, you should probably be at least skimming the perl 6 mailing list weekly summaries.

You can also peruse the "Perl 6 Design Meeting Minutes" over at use.perl.org, but you should be forewarned that it's not likely to give you the warm fuzzies about the progress of Perl 6. For example:

• 11 October 2006

  Larry:

  * only redesigning the basic syntax of the language

  * other than that...

• October 06, 2006

  Larry:

  * getting caught up with work after my Europe trip

  * attempting to use Perl 6 for some of that

  * Pugs is not terribly fast at that, so it's not entirely practical

  * getting some experience with programming Perl 6

  * it's kinda cool

  * but in spots I think "who thought up this?"

[TimToady]

You left out the fact that the program ran 60x faster after upgrading to ghc-6.6, so it's actually quite usable now.

But yes, transcribed phone meeting notes are not designed to convey humor well, nor do they shield the reader from the fact that most reports consist of busy people complaining that they have only 24 hours in a day. :-)

A much better view of where things stand comes from mailing lists and the irc channels, but those take a certain amount of ongoing attention.