Scala Meeting report, 2010-02-02

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Report from the Scala Core Team meeting, 2010-02-02:

People attending the meeting: Hubert, Martin, Eugene, Phil, Alex, Tiark,
Adriaan, Lukas, Toni, Gilles, Iulian, Philipp, Donna, Ingo.

* Current work
- New-style dependent method types: when part of the method type depends
on a value argument, it now uses symbols available from namedefaults (the
old version used DebruijnIndex).
- New reactive framework implementation.
- Ray-tracer example that uses the uniqueness types plugin.
- Scala syntax colorization and project manager works in Visual Studio.
- Refactored key compiler structures to be available as an abstract
representation independent from the compiler. Will be used for reflection,
Scalap and the like.

* 2.8 roadmap
- Still to be added:
- continuations
- immutable maps
- vector concatenation
- parallel arrays and vectors
- update specification
- dependent method types
- implementation of new equality
- scaladoc
- java 6 backend
- specialize standard library
- specialize function and tuple types
- actors cleanups
- join-style actors
- updated specification for self-types
- small additions to build mamanger
- plus, general bugfixing
- Move changes to trunk only once they are sure to make the 2.8 release.
- In five weeks (9 March), we will consider the situation, aiming to
release a first RC around then. We'll strive to have these features ready
by then.

* Regex has java Sequences in its interface
- That is not compatible with .net
- Remove? No: removing it would decrease Java compatibility.

* Style Guide
- Will add a link. Do not endorse as the only possible guide.