* Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> [2008-09-02 20:30]:
> But I've tried touting this task before, and everyone seems> instantly busy.I can see why.
I can tell you some trivial things that have *not* changed, which
is all of `~~`’s spec outside of that section, such as
precedence, interaction with `when`, exception matching, etc. pp.
This is so easy to figure out that I assume everyone else before
me who may have attempted this task has also figured out this
much, and that my work so far has therefore produced no value.
That leaves the Smart Matching sections themselves. In Feb 2006,
the section was 80 lines long. It has quadrupled since. This’ll
take a rather long chunk of quality time to figure out.
> So it would be useful for someone to compare the Perl 6> smartmatch table as of February 2006> L<http://svn.perl.org/viewvc/perl6/doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod?view=markup&pathrev=7615>> and the current table> L<http://svn.perl.org/viewvc/perl6/doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod?revision=14556&view=markup>> and tabulate the differences in Perl 6.Actually, the old table was in S04 @7615, with a note saying it
should be in S03.
> The annotated view of changes is> L<http://svn.perl.org/viewvc/perl6/doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod?view=annotate>> and the diff is> C<svn diff -r7615:14556 http://svn.perl.org/perl6/doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod>> -- search for C<=head1 Smart matching>. (In theory F<viewvc>> can generate that, but in practice when I tried it hung> forever, I assume "thinking")Even the annotate link hangs until it times out, for me. Not that
in either case it matters, because the table moved from S04 to
S03 in the meantime, so both the diff and annotate views are
actually completely useless. Since the section has grown several
times I’ll assume here that shaving yaks with git-svn to get a)
acceptable performance with b) a local repo browser, will only
lead me to discover that following diffs over time is no more
helpful than reading the two revisions in isolation and entirety.
Therefore I am reading them thusly.
I’ll report back with my findings.
Regards,
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