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diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2012.08 b/skel/docs/announce/2012.08 deleted file mode 100644 index f734c36..0000000 --- a/skel/docs/announce/2012.08 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,104 +0,0 @@ -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 August 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and -usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the August 2012 -release is available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>. -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 2012.08 [0] of the -Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.6 of the Parrot Virtual -Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other -resources collected from the Perl 6 community. - -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. More exceptions are thrown as typed -exceptions, and more meta-model errors have been fixed to properly -report line numbers. - -Starting with this release, we will also identify changes to the -implementation or specification that can cause breakages in existing -Perl 6 code. The following features have been deprecated or modified -due to changes in the Perl 6 specification, and are being removed -or changed as follows: - -[TODO: update the below list] - -* IO::File and IO::Dir will go away, and &dir now returns values of type - IO::Path (which is currently the superclass of IO::File and IO::Dir). - The return values of &dir will still stringify to the base name of the - returned file and directory names, and you can call .path on them to - obtain the full path. - -* 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. - Scheduled for the 2012.08 release. - -* 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. - Scheduled for the 2012.08 release, but may end up in 2012.09 . - -* The method Str.bytes will be removed. To get the number of codepoints - 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 eventually be removed, and replaced by - Str.tc. - No schedule yet, depends on having tc implemented first. - -* 'abs' is currently a prefix operator, and will be changed to a normal - subroutine. - Scheduled for the 2012.08 release. - -* The integer argument to IO::Socket.recv will be interpreted as number of - characters/codepoints. - 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: - - * 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 -2012.08 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/2012.08 -[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo -[2] http://parrot.org/ |