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author | pmichaud <pmichaud@pobox.com> | 2013-05-01 01:10:26 -0500 |
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committer | pmichaud <pmichaud@pobox.com> | 2013-05-01 01:10:26 -0500 |
commit | baae3b64ad29d331a383028144cd05ccd51de8f2 (patch) | |
tree | 9862081e2e7edb73fcc7b62ebfde0a3ca976cd62 /docs/announce | |
parent | e050eea08fe9a1afcf49b74b6d49ae9daac0b918 (diff) |
Remove 2013.03 draft announcement -- there was no 2013.03 Star release.
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diff --git a/docs/announce/2013.03.md b/docs/announce/2013.03.md deleted file mode 100644 index 2615329..0000000 --- a/docs/announce/2013.03.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,88 +0,0 @@ -# Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2013.03 - -## A useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6 - -On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to -announce the March 2013 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable -distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the March 2013 release is -available from <http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/>. A Windows .MSI -version of Rakudo star will usually appear in the downloads area -shortly after the tarball release. - -In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language -("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as -"Rakudo Perl". This Star release includes [release 2013.03] of the -[Rakudo Perl 6 compiler], version 4.10.0 of the [Parrot Virtual -Machine], plus various modules, documentation, and other resources -collected from the Perl 6 community. - -[release 2013.03]: - https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2013.03.md -[Rakudo Perl 6 compiler]: http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo -[Parrot Virtual Machine]: http://parrot.org - -Some of the new features added to this release include: - - * ... - * ... - -This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error -reporting and better failure modes. - -The following features have been deprecated or modified from previous -releases due to changes in the Perl 6 specification, and are being -removed or changed as follows: - - * postcircumfix:`<[ ]>` and postcircumfix:`<{ }>` will become - multi-subs rather than multi-methods. Both at_pos and at_key will - remain methods. - - * Unary hyper ops currently descend into nested arrays and hashes. - This will change to make them equivalent to a one-level map. - - * The Str.ucfirst builtin is deprecated; it will be replaced by - Str.tc. - - * Leading whitespace in rules and under :sigspace will no longer be - converted to `<.ws>`. For existing regexes that expect this - conversion, add a `<?>` in front of leading whitespace to make it - meta again. - - * The ?-quantifier on captures in regexes currently binds the - capture slot to a List containing either zero or one Match - objects; i.e., it is equivalent to "`** 0..1`". In the future, - the ?-quantifier will bind the slot directly to a captured Match - or to Nil. Existing code can manage the transition by changing - existing ?-quantifiers to use "`** 0..1`", which will continue to - return a List of matches. - -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: - - * advanced macros - * threads and concurrency - * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints - * interactive readline that understands Unicode - * non-blocking I/O - * much of Synopsis 9 - -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. - -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 -that we've missed. Bug reports about missing and broken features are -welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>. - -See <http://perl6.org/> for links to much more information about -Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference -materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources. A -draft of a Perl 6 book is available as docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf in -the release tarball. - -The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for -making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see -<http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the <perl6-compiler@perl.org> -mailing list, or join us on IRC \#perl6 on freenode. |