more entries to S99

Author: cognominal

S99-glossary.pod

@@ -244,6 +244,12 @@ Be Right Back.  Only L</afk> for a little while.
 
 Bounded Serialization.
 
+=head2 BSON
+
+BSON is the binary counterpart to the textual L</JSON> data format.
+Used by Mongodb and supported by the
+L<MARTIMM/BSON|https://github.com/MARTIMM/BSON/> L</project>.
+
 =head2 Bug report
 
 The way to report problems to the implementors.  For the interpreters
@@ -328,7 +334,14 @@ A regex definition for one of the term kinds :
 1) Context Free Grammar.
 2) see L</Control Flow Graph>.
 
-=head character
+=head2 character
+
+A L</string> is a sequence of characters.  Like in Perl 6, there is no
+character type in Perl 6 so when someone says a I<characte> about a
+L</value>, he means a string with one character. In L</Unicode> a
+character may be composed of many codepoints.  But a string represented
+in the L</NFG> normalization form proper to Perl 6 has a codepoint per
+character. That leads to O(1) performance for many string operations.
 
 =head2 channel
 
@@ -1068,6 +1081,12 @@ NQP.
 L<Just-in-time compilation|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation>,
 a technique for improving the performance of virtual machines.
 
+=head2 JSON
+
+A popular data format. Its L<specification|http://json.org/>
+The ecosystem includes many JSON related L</projects>.
+Its binary counterpart is L</BSON>.
+
 =head2 Junction
 
 A compound type that is transparent to many operations. See
@@ -1231,6 +1250,12 @@ See also L</parse>.
 
 =head2 memory
 
+=head2 META.info
+
+A L</JSON> file that lies in the root of a L</repository> for a project written
+in Perl 6. It describes a project and list its dependancies.
+Documented in L<spec.pod|https://github.com/perl6/ecosystem/blob/master/spec.pod>.
+
 =head2 metamodel
 
 The metamodel describes some L<OO> behaviors, like where to find a
@@ -1690,12 +1715,22 @@ L</symbol>s.
 
 =head2 program
 
+=head2 project
+
+A project is a L</version>ed L</repository>.
+It typically contains a C<bin> folder and a C<lib> and <t> hierarchy.
+They respectively contain executable scripts, Perl 6 libraries and tests.
+The list of projects is maintained in the L<ecosystem> repository.
+
+
 =head2 pseudo-scope
 
 =head2 pseudo-package
 
 =head2 proto
 
+A proto is a generic L</dispatcher> to L</multi>s by the same L</shortname>.
+
 =head2 PR
 
 Short for L</pull request>.