[m-dev.] for review: Minutes for 24/11/00 Mercury meeting.
Tyson Dowd
trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Fri Nov 24 17:35:44 AEDT 2000
Hi,
'nother one.
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Minutes for today's Mercury meeting.
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+We had a meeting of the Mercury group on Fri Nov 24, 3:15pm to 4:15pm.
+
+Attendees:
+ David Jeffery <dgj>
+ Mark Brown <dougl>
+ Zoltan Somogyi <zs>
+ Tyson Dowd <trd>
+ Simon Taylor <stayl>
+ Kevin Glynn <keving>
+
+1. General Discussion
+
+ Summer students are starting next week, on Monday. Tyson and
+ Fergus are giving talks on Mercury (mostly following Zoltans
+ 433-257 notes, but unlike last year we will intersperse the
+ talks with "lab classes" to break up the lectures and give
+ students a bit of time to practice).
+
+ Accounts need to be created for the students on the Mercury
+ machines. We need to decide where machines will be put for the
+ students in the Mercury office.
+
+ We also discussed the possibility of making the module qualifier
+ `.' in time for this release. We decided this might be better
+ as a post-release change, and we will backport it to the release
+ and make a point release (Zoltan's pun, not mine).
+
+ One possible project that we would like someone to do in future
+ is a Mercury code reformatter that preservers commenting. This
+ would help us provide transitional tools for syntax changes.
+
+ The long names of mercury scripts were discussed and everyone
+ was happy enough with the `mercury_*' names that have been
+ suggested on mercury-developers.
+
+2. Progress reports.
+
+ We went around the table, with each person in turn discussing what
+ they had been working on recently and/or what they were planning
+ to work on.
+
+ Tyson Dowd <trd>
+
+ - has been working on getting the IL backend library
+ working. All the changes have been made, but there
+ are some hitches with :- external and the multiple
+ foreign language interface.
+
+ - zs suggested writing a proposal on the intended goal
+ and workings of the foreign language system, which
+ Tyson agreed was a good idea.
+
+ Mark Brown <dougl>:
+
+ - has been working on his recently submitted change to
+ do term dependency analysis in the declarative debugger.
+
+ Simon Taylor <stayl>
+ - Working on getting aditi to call Mercury -- now
+ list__append works.
+
+ David Jeffery <dgj>:
+ - Has been working HAL
+
+ Zoltan Somogyi <zs>:
+ - Has been working on putting MR_ prefixes on everything
+ to make Mercury namespace clean (this is a release
+ goal).
+ - Plans to work on retry across IO, an accurate GC code
+ generator abort, and a typeclass bug before the
+ release.
+
+ Kevin Glynn <keving>:
+ - Once again, Kevin has done no Mercury work.
+ Is this the laziness that functional programmers talk
+ about?
+
+Minutes taken by Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.oz.au>.
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Tyson Dowd #
# Surreal humour isn't everyone's cup of fur.
trd at cs.mu.oz.au #
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~trd #
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