From 76b69c9f264fcfd7f4deb053e1e2002b4e2444f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lue Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 13:16:11 -0700 Subject: Create 2013.10 announcment [RG Step 6] --- docs/announce/2013.10.md | 94 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 94 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/announce/2013.10.md diff --git a/docs/announce/2013.10.md b/docs/announce/2013.10.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7b63a54 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/announce/2013.10.md @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +# Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2013.10 + +## 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 October 2013 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable +distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the October 2013 release is +available from . 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 2013.10] of the +[Rakudo Perl 6 compiler], version 5.9.0 of the [Parrot Virtual +Machine], plus various modules, documentation, and other resources +collected from the Perl 6 community. + +[release 2013.10]: + https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2013.10.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: + ++ postcircumfix {} and [] are now implemented as multi subs rather than multi methods. ++ Add support for "is deprecated", making it easy for early adopters to stay current. ++ Track multiple spec changes for various container classes. ++ Greatly reduce object creation during Regex parsing. ++ Various portability fixes. ++ qx// and run() now auto-quote correctly. ++ Allow #`[...]-style comments in regexes. ++ unlink() behaves like P5's, it deletes write-protected files on Windows. + +This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error +reporting and better failure modes. + +Please note that this release of Rakudo Star does not support the JVM +backend from the Rakudo compiler. While the JVM backend mostly implements +the same features as the Parrot backend, many bits are still missing, +most prominently the native call interface. +We hope to provide a JVM-based Rakudo Star release soon. + +The following notable features have been deprecated or modified from previous +releases due to changes in the Perl 6 specification, and are planned to be +removed or changed as follows: + + * `postcircumfix:<[ ]>` and `postcircumfix:<{ }>` are now multi-subs rather + than multi-methods. Both at_pos and at_key remain as methods. + + * All unary hyper ops currently descend into nested arrays and + hashes. In the next release, those operators and methods that are + defined "nodal" will behave like a one-level map. + + * The Str.ucfirst builtin is deprecated; it will be replaced by + Str.tc. In this Rakudo Star release, use of Str.ucfirst will actually + generate a warning upon first usage. + + * In the next release, leading whitespace in rules and under :sigspace will no + longer be converted to `<.ws>`. For existing regexes that expect this + conversion now and in the future, add a `` in front of leading whitespace + to replicate the old behavior. (Adding `` today will have no adverse + effects on your code.) + +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 and 11 + +There is an online resource at +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 . + +See 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 +, ask on the +mailing list, or join us on IRC \#perl6 on freenode. -- cgit v1.1