From 259e3d3ae8cdefcc5a6ba12940db55eecefeea88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Moritz Lenz Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:03:08 +0200 Subject: [announce] try to clarify a few deprecations --- skel/docs/announce/2012.07 | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'skel/docs/announce/2012.07') diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2012.07 b/skel/docs/announce/2012.07 index 7fe1058..2aba6c0 100644 --- a/skel/docs/announce/2012.07 +++ b/skel/docs/announce/2012.07 @@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ or changed as follows: * IO::File and IO::Dir will go away, and &dir now returns values of type IO::Path (which is currently the superclass of IO::File and IO::Dir). + The return values of &dir will still stringify to the base name of the + returned file and directory names, and you can call .path on them to + obtain the full path. * Leading whitespace in rules and under :sigspace will no longer be converted to <.ws> . For existing regexes that expect this conversion, @@ -56,7 +59,7 @@ or changed as follows: Scheduled for the 2012.08 release. * The method Str.ucfirst will eventually be removed, and replaced by - Str.titlecase . + Str.tc. No schedule yet, depends on having titlecase implemented first. * 'abs' is currently a prefix operator, and will be changed to a normal @@ -64,7 +67,7 @@ or changed as follows: Scheduled for the 2012.08 release. * The integer argument to IO::Socket.recv will be interpreted as number of - codepoints. + characters/codepoints. Scheduled for the 2012.08 release. There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not -- cgit v1.1