From ddb6e0f655ffbbe0bef8b967bccbf028493c4626 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jnthn Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:52:26 +0200 Subject: Add a draft announce for 2012.06. --- skel/docs/announce/2012.06 | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 78 insertions(+) create mode 100644 skel/docs/announce/2012.06 diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2012.06 b/skel/docs/announce/2012.06 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3cb9952 --- /dev/null +++ b/skel/docs/announce/2012.06 @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +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 May 2012 +release is available from . + +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 + +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 . + +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. + +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 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/ -- cgit v1.1