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-Announce: Rakudo Star - 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 June 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and
-usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the June 2012
-release is available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-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 2012.06 [0] of the
-Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.5 of the Parrot Virtual
-Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other
-resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-Here are some of the major improvements in this release over the
-previous distribution release.
-
-* Transitive longest-token matching in protoregexes
-
-* Longest token matching for alternations
-
-* Enhanced list and .map handling, including laziness fixes and performance
- improvements
-
-* Can use an argument list with require
-
-* Compile time errors in loaded modules now show a module loading backtrace
-
-* String to number conversion now recognizes radix notation
-
-* The &push and &unshift functions can now autovivify
-
-* Rakudo is now compiled with the same regex engine that user-space
- regexes use; some parsing bugs are fixed as a result
-
-* p6doc is now shipped with Rakudo Star. It is a small collection of
- user-oriented documentation, along with the `p6doc` script for viewing
- them.
-
-This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error
-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.
-
-This release contains an important breaking change to number parsing.
-Previously, a string such as "foo" would numify to 0. Now this will
-return a Failure.
-
-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:
-
- * 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 a new online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features
-that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo Star
-2012.06 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.
-An updated 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.
-
-[0] https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2012.06
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/