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authortimo <timonator@perpetuum-immobile.de>2014-12-26 13:49:58 +0100
committertimo <timonator@perpetuum-immobile.de>2014-12-26 13:49:58 +0100
commit1df8fdfa2781d4acd3631910c7b741555c83a83c (patch)
tree1e6ec5ef6bbdbf1314170fbbc21d4ec163b3aff3
parentb8f06b8fd866f4864c23fed2e2a32edd9412ded3 (diff)
tiny changes to the announcement
-rw-r--r--docs/announce/2014.12.md10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/announce/2014.12.md b/docs/announce/2014.12.md
index 66e5468..5e598ed 100644
--- a/docs/announce/2014.12.md
+++ b/docs/announce/2014.12.md
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Some of the new compiler features added to this release include:
- Introduce IO::Handle.slurp-rest for slurping rest from the handle
- Fix tie-breaking issues with longest literal matching
- Method FALLBACK implemented
-- $*DISTRO and $*KERNEL updated ($*DISTRO now actually report the Linux dist)
+- $\*DISTRO and $\*KERNEL updated ($*DISTRO now actually report the Linux dist)
- Added Metamodel::Primitives, to open up more meta-programming possibilities
(publishing method caches, completely custom meta-objects, etc.)
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Changes to modules included in Rakudo Star:
- panda now ignores POD while determining module dependencies.
- panda now can [upload test results to testers.perl6.org server](http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2014/12/21/day-21-community-smoke-testing/).
- panda now displays help with correct command descriptions when using `--help`.
-- panda has an `smoke` option to download and test all Perl 6 modules.
+- panda has a `smoke` option to download and test all Perl 6 modules.
- panda can now use `look` option in order to download modules without doing anything else.
- [HTTP::Easy](https://github.com/supernovus/perl6-http-easy) has received a few algorithm optimizations that made it faster.
- HTTP::Easy now binds to all interfaces by default when acting as a web server.
@@ -66,12 +66,12 @@ Some of the not-quite-there features include:
* threads and concurrency (in progress for the JVM and MoarVM backend)
* Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
* interactive readline that understands Unicode
- * non-blocking I/O
+ * non-blocking I/O (in progress for the JVM and MoarVM backend)
* much of Synopsis 9 and 11
There is an online resource at <http://perl6.org/compilers/features>
-that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo and
-other Perl 6 implementations.
+that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo's
+backends and other Perl 6 implementations.
In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are many