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What one Christmas elf has been up to

Here’s a look over the many things I’ve been working on in recent weeks to bring us closer to the Christmas Perl 6 release. For the most part, I’ve been working through the tickets we’ve attached to our “things to … Continue reading

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Last week: Unicode case fixes and much more

This report covers a two week period (September 28th through Sunday 11th October). However, the first week of it was almost entirely swallowed with teaching a class and the travel to and from that – so I’d have had precisely … Continue reading

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Those weeks: much progress!

This post is an attempt to summarize the things I worked on since the last weekly report up until the end of last week (so, through to Friday 25th). Then I’ll get back to weekly. :-) GLR The Great List … Continue reading

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Updates

It’s amazing just how long has gone by since I last wrote something here. I intend to get back to writing weekly posts about my Perl 6 work again starting around now, but here’s a few big-picture updates of what … Continue reading

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This week: fixing lots of RTs, digging into the GLR

This report covers the week starting 27th July. The first half was spent teaching the course that I was busy finishing up writing last week; happily, it went extremely well and was a lot of fun to deliver. And since … Continue reading

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This week: too little sleep and too little Perl 6

This report covers the week starting the 20th July – which turned out to be the week I had to finish preparing course material and labs for one of Edument’s new courses. That managed to swallow most of the week, … Continue reading

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This week: concurrency stuff, multi-dimensional stuff, stuff stuff…

Finally, I got a week of peaceful hacking time at home and not-too-bad health, and so Stuff Got Done. Here’s what. Progress on multi-dimensional arrays Last time, I’d gotten decent support into MoarVM for multi-dimensional arrays (including packing natively typed … Continue reading

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This week: less than hoped, but still good stuff

This week actually means “the week starting 6th July”, which is around the time much of Europe was being unreasonably hot. I spent the week in lovely Kyiv with my wife – where the weather was, predictably, also hot. I’d hoped … Continue reading

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This week: digging into multi-dimensional arrays – and plenty more

This report covers what I got up to during the closing days of June and the opening days of July. Multi-dimensional array support in MoarVM I’ve been pondering how to approach the multi-dimensional array aspects of the S09 Perl 6 … Continue reading

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Grant status update

Over the last 3 months, I’ve been working on my Perl 6 Development Fund grant. Those of you following the blog will have seen plenty of posts in that time about what I’ve been up to. This post, 3 months … Continue reading

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