From 2284987cd1b6c886148b6ab50ead7b2cccc9ec99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Moritz Lenz Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:28:42 +0100 Subject: markdown template for release announcement, uvtc++ makes it easier to convert to HTML for the rakudo.org wordpress blog --- docs/announce/2013.03.md | 88 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 88 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/announce/2013.03.md (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/announce/2013.03.md b/docs/announce/2013.03.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8b08ddc --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/announce/2013.03.md @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +# Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2013.03 + +## 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 MONTH 2013 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable +distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the March 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 2013.03] of the +[Rakudo Perl 6 compiler], version 4.10.0 of the [Parrot Virtual +Machine], plus various modules, documentation, and other resources +collected from the Perl 6 community. + +[release 2013.03]: + https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2013.03.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: + + * ... + * ... + +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 being +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. + +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