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Postings from January 2012
On 2012-01-16, at 12:35:14 +0000, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the December period.
>
> Spent it continuing my overhaul of the re_eval mechanism.
> This month I finished off fixing literal code blocks within patterns; that
> is to say, in all places where a code block appears literally within a
> quoted-regex context in perl source, that code block will only be compiled
> once, at the same time as the surrounding perl code, and then passed round
> as necessary rather than being recompiled.
That sounds pretty awesome!
> The main things left to do are to fix non-literal code blocks, e.g.
>
> $code = '(?{...})';
> use re 'eval';
> /abc$code/;
>
> and make the code blocks be invoked in such a way that things like die,
> return and caller() will work.
>
> ---
>
> Over the last month I have averaged 8 hours per week.
>
> As of 2011/12/31: since the beginning of the grant:
>
> 94.9 weeks
> 1052.4 total hours
> 11.1 average hours per week
>
> There are now 248 hours left on the grant.
>
> ---
Signed off by me.
Cheers,
Marcus
> Report for period 2011/12/01 to 2011/12/31 inclusive
>
> SUMMARY
> -------
>
> Effort (HH::MM):
>
> 0:00 diagnosing bugs
> 37:00 fixing bugs
> 0:00 reviewing other people's bug fixes
> 0:00 reviewing ticket histories
> 0:00 review the ticket queue (triage)
> -----
> 37:00 TOTAL
>
> Numbers of tickets closed:
>
> 0 tickets closed that have been worked on
> 0 tickets closed related to bugs that have been fixed
> 0 tickets closed that were reviewed but not worked on (triage)
> -----
> 0 TOTAL
>
>
> SHORT DETAIL
> ------------
>
> 37:00 [perl #34161] METABUG - (?{...}) and (??{...}) regexp issues
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