From ba342ac4dce81c561916727380d8ba566c046b83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pmichaud Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:06:16 -0500 Subject: More release announcement updates; fix some obsolete text. --- docs/announce/2012.08 | 14 +++++--------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/announce/2012.08 b/docs/announce/2012.08 index da6e5a8..cca741a 100644 --- a/docs/announce/2012.08 +++ b/docs/announce/2012.08 @@ -49,10 +49,8 @@ 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 +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: * Parameters preceded by a | or \ can no longer have a sigil. @@ -68,7 +66,6 @@ or changed as follows: * 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 @@ -76,7 +73,6 @@ or changed as follows: 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 . There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming @@ -89,7 +85,7 @@ releases. Some of the not-quite-there features include: * non-blocking I/O * much of Synopsis 9 -There is a new online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features +There is an 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. @@ -101,8 +97,8 @@ features are welcomed at . 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 - in the release tarball. +A draft of a Perl 6 book is available as +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, -- cgit v1.1