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The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 13 January 2010. Larry, Patrick, and chromatic attended.

Larry:

• made constant declarations more consistent with type declaration syntax
• removed various spec fossils regarding the old :by modifier
• reworked KeyHash docs to make the semantics clearer
• refactored regex AST methods out of Cursor
• symbol table files are now compiled into their own subdirectory
• STD can now use modules defined in the test suite
• testing STD against the test suite now produces many fewer warnings about missing modules
• STD now specifically disallows forms like :!foo(0) and :5bar[42] that supply unexpected args
• STD now tracks 'of' types in declarations and prevents spurious 'of' types
• STD treats anon enums, subsets, and constants etc more consistently
• removed old type slot from constant declarator, now uses more standard type slots
• random bug fixing
• errors with expectation lists are less noisy, no longer reporting lookaheads and whitespace

Patrick:

• lots of thinking
• looking at Rakudo-ng today
• plan to do lists tomorrow
• want to get those out of the way
• Jonathan and I think we can merge it for the January release
• should know more after the weekend

c:

• working on TT #389
• :method should not add entries to NameSpace
• PGE/TGE have problems
• will not land for 2.0
• may add (and immediately deprecate) an experimental op to help migration