Perl 6

Perl 6 hackathon targets: Revision 8

These are topics and/or tasks that are likely candidates to be addressed or worked on at the [Oslo Perl 6 hackaton 2009]. They're here as a list to remind us of (1) important issues we may want to address when we have a gathering of the principals, and (2) ideas for things that we can recruit others to work on.

^^ Rakudo-specific targets

* Update the development roadmap
* Review RT tickets, verify that open bugs/tickets have corresponding spectests
* Ideas/planning for initial module implementations, where hosted, if/how distributed with implementations
* Update documentation on rakudo.org
* Create/update FAQ on rakudo.org
* Update "committer's guide", "release manager's guide", etc. documents
* Plan for handling .leave
* Spectest coverage review
* Fix 'make install' target
* Planning for laziness and lazy lists
* Identify critical stumbling blocks for newcomers to Rakudo / Perl 6
* Clean up handling of True, False, .true, .not, etc.

^^ Perl 6 language targets

(Language design issues that may involve discussions with Larry or proposals to p6l)

* Handling of take() values, especially in loops
* Details of infix:<cmp>
* Do we want want() ?
* See also [perl6 tasks]
* String Range semantics
* Clarify enum/boolean stringification semantics
* Type constraints in arrays