Raku-Steering-Council VS MoarVM

Should be https://github.com/Raku/Raku-Steering-Council/blob/main/minutes/20230429.md

There is a link in the announcement itself. But since the program just have started there are no projects on the list yet. For now I'd suggest asking on #raku IRC channel.

The Raku community decided recently to setup a steering council.

The Raku Community has a Steering Council and a Code of Conduct, and a Community Affairs Team (CAT). This CAT has issued a ban for this person.

A correction: Liz has been entirely supportive the Raku Steering Council's efforts to establish our Code of Conduct[0] and to enforce that Code.

(I know that part of this comment is referring to events that took place years ago; I don't have any firsthand knowledge about those events but want to correct the record about the present)

[0]: https://github.com/Raku/Raku-Steering-Council/blob/main/pape...

However, as Liz said, the Raku Conf is being organized by Andrew, so he is (appropriately!) the only one who gets a vote – he's doing the work, and so he gets to make the calls. The RSC's role is limited to making sure that participants follow the Raku Code of Conduct at the conference – that is, we have a purely support function.

Raku CAT has finished investigating the case. An action has been taken and a statement made: https://github.com/Raku/Raku-Steering-Council/blob/main/announcements/20210630.md

Implement return prioritization #1786: superseeded

Now, as to how that's done at the low level, and whether the way it's done is a good way to do it, well, I can't help. Suffice to say, the main place to look for how this is handled at the low-level is MoarVM. I dug around for a couple minutes and have a link to a commit from nearly a decade ago. Does that help?

For a class the default representation is P6Opaque. This is one of a few dozen stock representations that Raku requires compiler backends implement as standard. See, for example, the 46 .c/.h pairs of C89 source files in the relevant MoarVM directory. A quick glance at the names of the source code files should paint a broad picture. A look at their code will fill in some details.

I'm hoping someone who knows C89 can take a quick gander at the C89 code implementing 47 representations in here and comment on it.

This is (yet another) very un(der)documented Raku feature (over a decade after it was introduced!), but one can browse what looks to me like reasonably clean and commented C89 code implementing 47 representations in the relevant MoarVM directory.

FROM alpine:latest as base ARG RAKU_RELEASE=2021.12 ENV PKGS="git make gcc musl-dev perl linux-headers bash" RUN apk update && apk upgrade \ && apk add --no-cache $PKGS \ && git clone --depth 1 --branch ${RAKU_RELEASE} https://github.com/MoarVM/MoarVM.git \ && cd MoarVM \ && perl Configure.pl --prefix /usr \ && make --print-data-base \ && make install\ && cd .. \ && git clone --depth 1 --branch ${RAKU_RELEASE} git://github.com/Raku/nqp.git \ && cd nqp \ && perl Configure.pl --backends=moar --prefix /usr \ && make install \ && cd .. \ && git clone --depth 1 --branch ${RAKU_RELEASE} https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo.git \ && cd rakudo \ && perl Configure.pl --backends=moar --prefix /usr \ && make install \ && ls /usr/share/nqp/ FROM alpine:latest ARG UID=1000 LABEL version="0.5.0" maintainer="[email protected]" raku_release=${RAKU_RELEASE} raku_user_uid=${UID} COPY --from=base /usr/lib/libmoar.so /usr/lib COPY --from=base /usr/share/nqp/ /usr/share/nqp COPY --from=base /usr/share/perl6/ /usr/share/perl6 COPY --from=base /usr/bin/moar /usr/bin/nqp /usr/bin/raku /usr/bin/perl6 /usr/bin/rakudo /usr/bin/ RUN mkdir /github \ && addgroup -S raku && adduser -S raku -G raku --uid ${UID} USER raku WORKDIR /home/raku ENTRYPOINT ["raku"]

Visit the MoarVM project's home page and/or its github repo.

MoarVM's representation is very cool https://github.com/MoarVM/MoarVM/blob/master/docs/strings.asciidoc