The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 21 April 2010. Larry, Allison, Patrick, Will, Jerry, and chromatic attended.

Larry:

• been under the weather, so didn't get much done other than keeping up with questions
• S05 now allows negative quantifier ranges on reversible patterns
• S02 now defines the term now to return the current instant
• like rand and self, it does not parse as a function, since it never takes arguments
• we now specify what kinds of math are allowed on instants and durations
• improved error message on attempt to use old-school backreferences in regexes
• STD now implements the now term and several other time-related names
• we now allow enum names to be "constant variables" so that a class enum can declare an accessor
• thinking alot about a better unification of the semantics of protos
• this may also solve the current ambiguity in the meaning of postfix parens
• in any case, this is for post Rakudo *

Allison:

• mainly worked on packaging for Debian and Ubuntu before the release
• closed TT #389, no methods in namespaces
• collecting thoughts on what we need next from the GC
• we've done a lot of small cleanups
• now we need to solve some persistent problems
• might need to make some fundamental changes, like reducing copying
• coming up on my final week of classes, so lots of work there coming up

Will:

• updated a spectest
• minor ticket wrangling in Rakudo's RT queue

Jerry:

• GSoC will make its acceptance announcements soon
• expect TPF will get 10 slots

Patrick:

• reviewing Rakudo's current state
• made a couple of minor NQP patches
• reviewing patches, especially from Moritz and Bruce Keeler
• should check them in, probably with some refactorings
• hope to work on the List implementation, especially laziness and context

c:

• fixed as much of line numbering as I found broken
• working on branch merges
• still looking at optimizations
• will focus most energy this month on the sweep-free GC
• hope to encourage other people to work on identified optimizations
• will review Solomon Foster's Mandlebrot example, especially with regard to performance