Developer's Notes

Purpose

This document is a shared notebook for developers working on the prototype Perl 6 compiler. It's a place to record observations, obstacles, solutions, plans, etc. It's not generally intended for people who are just using the compiler, but if you run across a feature that doesn't quite work, you may find it mentioned here.

Compiling

At the moment, P6C will only work if you configure parrot with the icudatadir specified:

perl Configure.pl --icudatadir="`pwd`/blib/lib/icu/2.6.1"

or equivalent.

Subroutines

I'm having a problem with user-defined subroutines. Subroutines without any defined parameters work fine (arguments are passed in @_). Subroutines with one defined parameter get 1 as the value of the parameter. With two defined parameters, the first has the value 2, the second is a NULL PMC.

I haven't had time to look into it further, but I added SKIP tests that demonstrate the problem(s) in t/subs/simple.t. --Allison

To install Ruby, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.

cpanm

cpanm Ruby

CPAN shell

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Ruby

For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.

	Global
`s`	Focus search bar
`?`	Bring up this help dialog

	GitHub
`g` `p`	Go to pull requests
`g` `i`	go to github issues (only if github is preferred repository)

	POD
`g` `a`	Go to author
`g` `c`	Go to changes
`g` `i`	Go to issues
`g` `d`	Go to dist
`g` `r`	Go to repository/SCM
`g` `s`	Go to source
`g` `b`	Go to file browse

	Search terms
module: (e.g. module:Plugin)
distribution: (e.g. distribution:Dancer auth)
author: (e.g. author:SONGMU Redis)
version: (e.g. version:1.00)

Developer's Notes

Purpose

Compiling

Subroutines

Module Install Instructions