From fc649f7d11353c7c24614a8c6b29d4e3176b35db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pmichaud Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 07:50:57 -0500 Subject: Rename 2013.04.md announcement to 2013.05.md. --- docs/announce/2013.04.md | 105 ----------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 105 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 docs/announce/2013.04.md (limited to 'docs/announce/2013.04.md') diff --git a/docs/announce/2013.04.md b/docs/announce/2013.04.md deleted file mode 100644 index e5ba1bf..0000000 --- a/docs/announce/2013.04.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,105 +0,0 @@ -# Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2013.04 - -## 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 April 2013 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable -distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the April 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 2013.04] of the -[Rakudo Perl 6 compiler], version 5.3.0 of the [Parrot Virtual -Machine], plus various modules, documentation, and other resources -collected from the Perl 6 community. - -[release 2013.04]: - https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2013.04.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: - -* Rakudo warns when pure expressions are used in sink context -* .substr(...) now correctly accepts whatever-star closures -* Implemented shellwords postcircumfix (%h<< $x 'foo bar' >>) -* Defining operators spelled like the empty string is now illegal -* Array interpolations now properly do LTM -* Autothread "none" and "all" junctions before "any" and "one" -* Helpful error if you write "else if"/"elif" instead of "elsif" -* Throw exception if a Range is used as a Range endpoint -* Corrected argument order in IO.seek -* wrap low level VM objects in ForeignCode, allowing perl6 OO calls on them -* for loops are eager again -* add link and symlink to IO -* add Capture.Bool() -* improvements to DUMP() -* various optimizations in the optimizer and the runtime -* smartmatch against list now supports Whatever wildcards - -This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error -reporting and better failure modes. - -The following 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:`<{ }>` will become - multi-subs rather than multi-methods. Both at_pos and at_key will - remain methods. - - * Unary hyper ops currently descend into nested arrays and hashes. - This will change to make them equivalent to a one-level map. - - * The Str.ucfirst builtin is deprecated; it will be replaced by - Str.tc. - - * 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. - - * 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. - - * The result of failed matches will be Nil instead of a Match - object returning boolean False. - -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 - -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