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| author | Moritz Lenz <moritz@faui2k3.org> | 2012-07-21 21:13:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Moritz Lenz <moritz@faui2k3.org> | 2012-07-21 21:13:12 +0200 |
| commit | 0fe428ed12f5d3fc4e5e33f68c0b42b1300d871e (patch) | |
| tree | ccf59563d766999b3a39e1bf67c630ad813f71d4 | |
| parent | 1034038cd72b78db47b7d05f22710672ca192979 (diff) | |
add some deprecation notices to the release announcement
maybe we need to find a better place for them as they grow larger
| -rw-r--r-- | skel/docs/announce/2012.07 | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2012.07 b/skel/docs/announce/2012.07 index 0282ebe..b8ca2ca 100644 --- a/skel/docs/announce/2012.07 +++ b/skel/docs/announce/2012.07 @@ -24,6 +24,26 @@ reporting and better failure modes. More exceptions are thrown as typed exceptions, and more meta-model errors have been fixed to properly report line numbers. +The following features are deprecated due to changes in the Perl 6 +specification, and will be removed or changed: + +* the method Str.bytes will be removed. To get the number of codespoints + in a string, use .codes instead. To get the number of bytes in a + given encoding, use $str.encode($encoding).bytes + Scheduled for the 2012.08 release. + +* the method Str.lcfirst will be removed without replacement + Scheduled for the 2012.08 release. + +* the method Str.ucfirst will eventuelly be removed, and replaced by + Str.titlecase + No schedule yet, depends on having titlecase implementef first. + +* 'abs' right now is a prefix operator, and will be changed to a normal + subroutine. + Scheduled for the 2012.08 release. + + There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming releases. Some of the not-quite-there features include: |