From c012d8b882480151d8eb7da92c4cca80d1d9b814 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pmichaud Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:36:53 -0500 Subject: Move skel/ into top-level directory, to try building directly from the repo. --- skel/docs/announce/2012.06 | 82 ---------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 82 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 skel/docs/announce/2012.06 (limited to 'skel/docs/announce/2012.06') diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2012.06 b/skel/docs/announce/2012.06 deleted file mode 100644 index 0384ded..0000000 --- a/skel/docs/announce/2012.06 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,82 +0,0 @@ -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 June 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 - -* p6doc is now shipped with Rakudo Star. It is a small collection of - user-oriented documentation, along with the `p6doc` script for viewing - them. - -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