On Tuesday, February 10, 2026, abdelsalam mostafa <
abdelsalam.lance@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I’m interested in contributing to PL/Julia and would like to better understand this issue:
https://gitlab.com/pljulia/pljulia/-/issues/5The issue is about handling arrays passed as IN parameters, but I’m still not fully clear on the problem and the expected behavior. I’d really appreciate it if someone could explain what currently happens and what is missing, at a high level.
I’m planning to contribute to PL/Julia as part of GSoC 2026, and this explanation would help me approach the issue correctly.
A quick skim of the code (with blame enabled) turned up this commit:
The wording of the issue is basically “missing feature addition”. The commit happened a month after the issue was raised. Personally I’d have closed the issue as resolved. Probably have added a “limitations” note to the docs stating that only arrays of base types are presently accepted (that may not be a true claim anymore though - I didn’t look).
Suggest you create some more test functions with different kinds of inputs, and skim the test suite, to see what limitations do exist. Can you get the PL to crash or bug out with a simple echo function with various inputs?
David J.
P.S. I’m confused how you ended up on -hackers for the core project talking about GSoC for a non-core extension. Shouldn’t your mentor be providing this kind of guidance? Also, it seems problematic to contribute to an abandoned project as a mentee unless working with the last maintainer/owner (though I’m not really up on the goals/guidelines GSoC puts out in that respect either…).
