[scala] Maintaining the Scala pattern matcher

[David MacIver]

I note from http://www.scala-lang.org/node/292 that the Scala pattern
matcher is currently lacking a maintainer. I'd be interested in the
role, as I've been looking for a good opportunity to to get properly
to grips with the Scala compiler and this looks like a nice self
contained area of it that I'm interested in.

As suggested by the above, I'm not exactly the most experienced
compiler developer in the world (more accurately: I've skimmed a few
books on the subject and meant to do more but have never actually
gotten around to playing with any code except for one patch submitted
to the Scala compiler), but I think I'd do a reasonably good job at
this. If nothing else the pattern matcher would benefit from the huge
pile of tests I'd throw at it because I was terrified of breaking
anything. :-)

[Antonio Cunei]

Great! :) Thank you for your help!

I've updated the maintainers page in order to list you as the current
maintainer of the pattern matcher, with a link to a contact page that
people can use to contact you.

If you need any assistance with your new role as maintainer of the pattern
matcher, or with the related code, please just let us know and we'll try
our best to assist.

Thanks!
Toni


David MacIver wrote:

> I note from http://www.scala-lang.org/node/292 that the Scala pattern
> matcher is currently lacking a maintainer. I'd be interested in the
> role, as I've been looking for a good opportunity to to get properly
> to grips with the Scala compiler and this looks like a nice self
> contained area of it that I'm interested in.
>
> As suggested by the above, I'm not exactly the most experienced
> compiler developer in the world (more accurately: I've skimmed a few
> books on the subject and meant to do more but have never actually
> gotten around to playing with any code except for one patch submitted
> to the Scala compiler), but I think I'd do a reasonably good job at
> this. If nothing else the pattern matcher would benefit from the huge
> pile of tests I'd throw at it because I was terrified of breaking
> anything. :-)
>

[Burak Emir-2]

Hi David,

Great to hear that you want to take care of the matcher. yes, you will surely learn a few things about the Scala compiler, especially frontend stuff, types, desugarings and the abstract representations. oh, and optimization of pattern matching.

Though i don't have time to hack myself, feel free to ask me if you get stuck or if you are wondering why things have been implemented in the way they are now.

Throwing test cases at it sounds good, fixing the recently discussed exhaustiveness and null related bug should not be too hard either.

Burak

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:01 PM, David MacIver <david.maciver@...> wrote:

I note from http://www.scala-lang.org/node/292 that the Scala pattern
matcher is currently lacking a maintainer. I'd be interested in the
role, as I've been looking for a good opportunity to to get properly
to grips with the Scala compiler and this looks like a nice self
contained area of it that I'm interested in.

As suggested by the above, I'm not exactly the most experienced
compiler developer in the world (more accurately: I've skimmed a few
books on the subject and meant to do more but have never actually
gotten around to playing with any code except for one patch submitted
to the Scala compiler), but I think I'd do a reasonably good job at
this. If nothing else the pattern matcher would benefit from the huge
pile of tests I'd throw at it because I was terrified of breaking
anything. :-)

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