#784

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 04:20:48PM -0700, bsdz wrote:
> This is the same as bug #562 I filed months ago. I also sent several
> messages to the newsgroups and asked several questions in IRC.
> However, no one wanted to rise to the challenge and decide how this
> should work - no architect (or perhaps, one more interested in being
> in control rather than deciding on important behaviour). It was this
> bug or at least the way key players in the parrot team lacked interest
> in it that led me to feel that Parrot isn't interested in supporting
> any language other than Perl 6. This just made it all a bit too
> cliquey for me.

I'm not sure why Perl 6 enters the discussion here ("Parrot isn't 
interested in supporting any language other than Perl 6").  

It's worth noting that both #562 and #784 are the same issue as 
RT #60036, which I reported as being a problem back in 
October 2008.  That ticket still hasn't been addressed, and so 
Rakudo has basically worked around the bug for now by avoiding
any use of inplace opcodes whatsoever.

I'm not trying to provoke a language war here (and thus will drop
this thread if it appears to head that way) -- I'm just curious 
as to why Perl 6 is being singled out as a reason for this particular
bug not being resolved, given that it's an obstacle for Rakudo as well.
(I grant that because of the existence of workarounds, it's not
the highest priority bug that Rakudo needs to have addressed at the
moment.)

Pm