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The Perl 6 Summary extracts and distills the latest information from the Perl 6 mailing lists. Though Perl.com no longer publishes the newest summaries, Perl.org's This Week in Perl 6 stays up to date.

This Week in Perl 6, August 17-23, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists, with p6i seeing the most HLL discussion yet; p6l debating binding, parameters, and primitives; and p6c appreciating pretty graphics. [Aug. 25, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, Through August 14, 2005
Piers Cawley summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with containers and metamodels on the Perl 6 compiler list, metamodel and trait questions on the Perl 6 language list, and opcode changes and test modules on the Perl 6 internals list. [Aug. 18, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, August 2-9, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists, with p6i seeing build and platform patches, p6l exploring meta-meta discussions, and p6c enjoying Pugs and PxPerl releases. [Aug. 11, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, through August 2, 2005
Piers Cawley summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with PIL discussion on the Perl 6 compiler list, type and container questions on the Perl 6 language list, and a Lua compiler on the Perl 6 internals list. [Aug. 8, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, July 20-26, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists, with p6i discussing garbage collection schemes, p6l rethinking object attribute access and plotting GC APIs and access, and p6c reporting problems, documenting PIL, and discussing the grammar. [Jul. 28, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, July 13-19, 2005
Piers Cawley summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with Pugs running on a JavaScript engine, GMC plans for Parrot, and typechecking and metamodel discussions about Perl 6. [Jul. 21, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, July 5-12, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists, with p6l discussing metamodels, MMD, and invocants; p6i handling Leo's new calling conventions; and p6c plotting on retargeting Pugs to different back ends. [Jul. 14, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, June 29-July 5, 2005
Piers Cawley summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with YAPC::NA hackathons, a request for better archives, DBI v2 plans from Tim Bunce, and PGE interoperability questions. [Jul. 7, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, June 21-28, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with p6c discussing self-hosting options for Perl 6, Parrot segfaults and changes; and AUTOLOAD and self method invocation discussions continuing on p6l. [Jun. 30, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, June 8-21, 2005
Piers Cawley summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with the Austrian Perl Hackathon, rejiggered registers, frames, and calling conventions in Parrot, and lots of bikeshed painting in Perl 6 language. [Jun. 23, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, June 1-7, 2005
Piers Cawley summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with Parrot 0.2.1 released, mod_parrot bundled with mod_pugs (or vice versa), an end to the reduce operator debate, and a paean to Parrot lead architect Dan Sugalski. [Jun. 9, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, May 25, 2005-May 31, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with Parrot keys, MMD, Tcl, Python discussion, Pugs' continued evolution, introspection, generation, and more Perl 6 meta-programming goodness. [Jun. 2, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, May 18 - 24, 2005
Piers Cawley summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with Inline::Pugs bridging the gap, ParTcl coming into existence, and many questions about multimethod dispatch in Perl 6. [May. 27, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, May 3, 2005 - May 17, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with Pugs gaining object support, Parrot 0.2.0 released, and Perl 6 going through a reduction (though not in volume). [May. 19, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, April 26 - May 3, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with Pugs 6.2.2 released, Parrot freezing for a release, and the great debate over invocant naming continuing. [May. 5, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, April 20 - 26, 2005
Piers Cawley summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with Pugs 6.2.1 released, more MMD schemes, and big discussions of blocks, invocants, and parameters. [May. 2, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, April 12 - 19, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with Pugs 6.2.0 released, documentation patches, a switch to Subversion, and scope, whitespace, and character class questions. [Apr. 21, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, April 4-11, 2005
Piers Cawley summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with a new plan for Ponie, a Parrot/Pugs hackathon announcement, and identity tests. [Apr. 14, 2005]

This Fortnight in Perl 6, March 22 - April 3, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with p6l discussing converters and S03 and S29 updates, p6c finding and fixing bugs in Pugs, and p6i cleaning up code and welcoming Chip. [Apr. 7, 2005]

This Fortnight in Perl 6, March 7 - March 21, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with the resurgence of Perl 6 language questions, implementation decisions galore, and a new Parrot chief architect. [Mar. 24, 2005]

This Fortnight in Perl 6, Feb. 23 - March 7, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with the release of Parrot 0.1.2, lots of Pugs patches, and a plea for off-list summarization help. [Mar. 10, 2005]

This Fortnight in Perl 6, Feb. 9-22, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with kudos to Autrijus, still more plans for the Parrot 0.1.2 release, and lots and lots and lots of words about junctions. [Feb. 24, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, Feb. 1 - 8, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with bugfixes, plans for a Parrot 0.1.2 release, and the introduction of Featherweight Perl 6, an actual implementation. [Feb. 10, 2005]

This Fortnight in Perl 6, Jan. 19-31, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with more Parrot calling conventions, Perl 6 loop-ending and loop-continuing semantics, and evil thoughts from Luke Palmer. [Feb. 3, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, Jan. 11-18, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with idioms, loop counters, method-calling semantics, and the return of Dan Sugalski. [Jan. 20, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, January 03 - January 11, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with bugfixes, multimensional data structures, and a new syntax engine. [Jan. 13, 2005]

This Fortnight in Perl 6, December 21 - 31 2004
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with the final summary of 2004. What's on the lists? Patches, design decisions, and lots of theory. [Jan. 6, 2005]

This Fortnight in Perl 6, December 7-20 2004
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists: the Perl 6 language list discusses hashes, classes, and variables; the Perl 6 Compiler list launches code; and the Parrot list fixes lots and lots of bugs. [Dec. 29, 2004]

This Fortnight in Perl 6, December 1 - 6 2004
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists: the Perl 6 language list discusses a shiny new syntax update, and the Parrot list discusses what is and isn't up for grabs. [Dec. 9, 2004]

This Fortnight in Perl 6, November 16-30 2004
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists, with the introduction of the Parrot Grammar Engine! [Dec. 2, 2004]

This Week in Perl 6, November 9 - 15 2004
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists, with the Parrot list discussing continuations and the unchanging calling conventions, the Perl 6 folks discussing exports, and the Perl 6 Compiler list still strangely quiet. [Nov. 18, 2004]

This Week in Perl 6, November 2 - 8 2004
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists, with the Parrot folks talking about optimizations not to apply yet, the Perl 6 people receiving updated Synopses and Apocalypses, and the Perl 6 Internals team being strangely quiet. [Nov. 11, 2004]

This Fortnight on Perl 6, October 2004 Part Two
Matt Fowles summarizes two more weeks of the Perl 6 mailing lists in the last half of October. [Nov. 4, 2004]

This Fortnight on Perl 6, October 2004
In a stunning achievement, Matt Fowles makes his debut as the new Perl 6 summarizer, covering all three major mailing lists through the first half of October. [Oct. 28, 2004]

This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-09-24
Piers Cawley has the latest from the Perl 6 mailing lists. The perl6-compiler list discusses rule engine flexibility, the Parrot people discuss the Parrot versions of Forth, Tcl, and Python as well as lexical pads, and the Perl 6 Language list argues about what being in the core really means. [Sep. 28, 2004]

This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-09-17
Piers Cawley has the latest from the Perl 6 mailing lists. The perl6-compiler list discusses grammar bootstrapping, the Parrot people debate namespaces again, and the Perl 6 Language list ponders the freshly updated Synopsis 5. [Sep. 23, 2004]

This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-09-10
Piers Cawley has the latest from the Perl 6 mailing lists. The perl6-compiler list makes its introduction as Parrot people argue about configuration and namespaces and play Minesweeper and the Perl 6 language list continues to discuss Synopsis 9. [Sep. 16, 2004]

This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-09-03
Piers Cawley has the latest from the Perl 6 mailing lists. The Parrot folks create some TODOs, hash out math semantics, and discuss cross-compiling. The Perl 6 language folks argue about ranges, roles, pipelines, and PRE and POST hooks. [Sep. 9, 2004]

This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-08-20
Better register spilling, COBOL on Parrot, and a re-examination of lookahead from Apocalypse 12. All this and more in the latest Perl 6 summary. [Aug. 26, 2004]

This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-07-31
The pie hits! --more-- [Aug. 6, 2004]

This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-07-18
The Piethon benchmark contest is beginning to loom, and the language list discusses how scalars should be interpolated and subscripted. [Jul. 23, 2004]

This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-07-04
Work begins on a Perl 6 regexp parser, and Unicode manipulation of strings prompts discussion on the language list. [Jul. 9, 2004]

This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-06-27
Getting ready for the Piethon is a major concern, while the language list deals with various ways of modifying and annotating expressions. [Jul. 2, 2004]

This Week on Perl 6, Fortnight Ending 2004-06-21
Arrays and other classes go into the basic Parrot PMC hierarchy, and Dan finally embraces Unicode while perl6-language ... doesn't. [Jun. 24, 2004]

This Week on Perl 6, Fortnight Ending 2004-06-06
Parrot gets the beginnings of library dynamic loading, and Perl 6 gets a... periodic table? [Jun. 9, 2004]

This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-05-23
Lots of documentation effort on the Parrot list this week, and some work on the Perl 6 compiler, while on the language list, magical new syntaces for filling hashes... [May. 27, 2004]

This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-05-09
The native call interface raises questions on the internals list; Piers Cawley has the details on this and everything else from the Perl 6 effort. [May. 14, 2004]

This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-05-02
The internals list mulls over strings and multi-method dispatch, while Apocalypse 12 continues to intrigue and entertain the language list. [May. 7, 2004]

This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-04-25
Now that Apocalypse 12 is out, what do the Perl 6 developers think about it? Piers has all the details... [Apr. 29, 2004]

This Fortnight on Perl 6, Weeks Ending 2004-04-18
Parrot gains the beginnings of some Unicode support, causing much fallout; meanwhile, there's a fight over who gets the backtick operator, and what Perl 6 does to recognize and run Perl 5 code. [Apr. 22, 2004]