During June, Taiki Kawakami continued work on "his grant to write Perl::Lint, a static analyzer for Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/03/grant-proposal-perllint---yet.html. Taiki has implemented more than half the policies and has almost finished work representing complex structures such as block scope. If you would like to see this work in progress, please take a look at the project's "public GitHub repository":https://github.com/moznion/Perl-Lint or attend "Taki's talk about Perl::Lint at YAPC::Asia":http://yapcasia.org/2014/talk/show/6e5b28f4-0191-11e4-b7e8-e4a96aeab6a4. If you have any ... read more |
Taiki Kawakami started work on "his Perl::Lint grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/03/grant-proposal-perllint---yet.html in May. You can track his work in a "public repository":https://github.com/moznion/Perl-Lint at Github. Encouragingly, Taiki reports that he has already completed a third of his work. ... read more |
It's over a year since my "last update":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/11/perl-6-tablets-first-progress.html here on Herbert Breunung's "Perl 6 Tablets":http://tablets.perl6.org/. Work continues on this project, however, and tablets 2 to 4 on Perl 6's "basic syntax":http://tablets.perl6.org/tablet-2-basic-syntax.html, "variables":http://tablets.perl6.org/tablet-3-variables.html and "operators":http://tablets.perl6.org/tablet-4-operators.html have progressed. The tablets have moved to their own site at "http://tablets.perl6.org/":http://tablets.perl6.org/ so please use this new address when referencing them. Herbert has written "three":http://blogs.perl.org/users/lichtkind/2012/04/a-real-grant-report.html "blog":http://blogs.perl.org/users/lichtkind/2012/04/perl-6-tablets-what-happened-this-week.html "posts":http://blogs.perl.org/users/lichtkind/2012/04/how-perl-documentation-could-look-like.html about his recent work. His "perl blog":http://blogs.perl.org/users/lichtkind/ will keep ... read more |
In November, I wrote a progress report about work beginning on the Perl 6 Tablets grant. These tablets aim to offer both an in-depth tutorial and reference for Perl 6 Herbert Breunung, the tablets' author, has done considerable work since then on the overall structure of this documentation as well as describing particular details of the Perl 6 language. The tablets have reached a stage where we welcome feedback from ... read more |
In August 2010, The Perl Foundation awarded Herbert Breunung a grant to work on the Perl 6 tablets a tutorial and reference for Perl 6. You can view Herbert's progress at any time from the Perl 6 Tablets section of the Perl 6 Wiki. Herbert's work has started slowly, but he has completed the tablet number two and plans to work on tablets one and three in parallel over the ... read more |