Plumage Requests

Features of NQP that Plumage needs:

• Signatures and calling
  • Optional, named, named optional params (already done —Pm)
  • Param defaults (already done —Pm)
  • Slurpy params (already done —Pm)
  • Flatten into args
• Callables
  • Cloned closures
  • Pointy blocks (added in 992b220 —Pm)
• Hashes
  • Iterate over kv pairs (requires either real pairs or pointy blocks with params) (pointy blocks with signatures done, see above)
• Strings
  • Closure interpolation (added in 5559916 —Pm)
• Floats
  • Support for them
• Classes
  • Attribute declaration (already done —Pm)
  • CREATE (or other simplification of overridden new() methods)
• Grammars/Rules/Regexen
  • Get next match on same string
• Variables
  • “Globals” declared and initialized by a module without aid of mainline; could be any of:
    • GLOBAL pseudo-namespace + cross-namespace variable references (@GLOBAL::ARGS)
    • Contextuals (@*ARGS) look in PIR’s ‘namespace []’ as fallback
    • Compile-time lexical export
• PIR output
  • Use fetch and vivify opcodes

Pm also wants:

• @*ARGS