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/CREDITS | 57 ------------------- skel/docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf | Bin 702794 -> 0 bytes skel/docs/announce/2010.07 | 125 ----------------------------------------- skel/docs/announce/2010.08 | 79 -------------------------- skel/docs/announce/2010.09 | 80 -------------------------- skel/docs/announce/2010.10 | 77 ------------------------- skel/docs/announce/2010.11 | 72 ------------------------ skel/docs/announce/2010.12 | 72 ------------------------ skel/docs/announce/2011.01 | 73 ------------------------ skel/docs/announce/2011.04 | 79 -------------------------- skel/docs/announce/2011.07 | 84 --------------------------- skel/docs/announce/2012.01 | 122 ---------------------------------------- skel/docs/announce/2012.02 | 101 --------------------------------- skel/docs/announce/2012.04 | 80 -------------------------- skel/docs/announce/2012.05 | 67 ---------------------- skel/docs/announce/2012.06 | 82 --------------------------- skel/docs/announce/2012.07 | 108 ----------------------------------- skel/docs/announce/2012.08 | 104 ---------------------------------- skel/docs/cheatsheet.txt | 64 --------------------- 19 files changed, 1526 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 skel/docs/CREDITS delete mode 100644 skel/docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf delete mode 100644 skel/docs/announce/2010.07 delete mode 100644 skel/docs/announce/2010.08 delete mode 100644 skel/docs/announce/2010.09 delete mode 100644 skel/docs/announce/2010.10 delete mode 100644 skel/docs/announce/2010.11 delete mode 100644 skel/docs/announce/2010.12 delete mode 100644 skel/docs/announce/2011.01 delete mode 100644 skel/docs/announce/2011.04 delete mode 100644 skel/docs/announce/2011.07 delete mode 100644 skel/docs/announce/2012.01 delete mode 100644 skel/docs/announce/2012.02 delete mode 100644 skel/docs/announce/2012.04 delete mode 100644 skel/docs/announce/2012.05 delete mode 100644 skel/docs/announce/2012.06 delete mode 100644 skel/docs/announce/2012.07 delete mode 100644 skel/docs/announce/2012.08 delete mode 100644 skel/docs/cheatsheet.txt (limited to 'skel/docs') diff --git a/skel/docs/CREDITS b/skel/docs/CREDITS deleted file mode 100644 index f933c37..0000000 --- a/skel/docs/CREDITS +++ /dev/null @@ -1,57 +0,0 @@ -=pod - - Following in the steps of other open source projects that - eventually take over the world, here is the partial list - of people who have contributed to Rakudo and its supporting - works. It is sorted by name and formatted to allow easy - grepping and beautification by scripts. - The fields are: name (N), email (E), web-address (W), - description (D), repository username (U) and snail-mail - address (S). - - Thanks, - - The Rakudo Star Team - PS: Yes, this looks remarkably like the Linux CREDITS format - PPS: This file is encoded in UTF-8 - ----------- - -N: Carl Masak -E: cmasak@gmail.com -U: masak - -N: Jonathan Scott Duff -U: perlpilot -E: duff@pobox.com - -N: Jonathan Worthington -U: jnthn -E: jnthn@jnthn.net -W: http://www.jnthn.net/ - -N: Martin Berends -E: mberends@autoexec.demon.nl -D: Rakudo patch(es) - -N: Moritz Lenz -E: moritz@faui2k3.org -U: moritz -U: moritz_ -D: Test infrastructure, tests, various Rakudo features and built-ins - -N: Patrick R. Michaud -U: pmichaud -D: Perl 6 (Rakudo Perl) lead developer, pumpking -E: pmichaud@pobox.com - -N: Dave Olszewski -E: cxreg@pobox.com -U: cxreg -D: Bugfixes and moral support - -N: Tadeusz Sośnierz -E: tadzikes@gmail.com -U: tadzik - -=cut diff --git a/skel/docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf b/skel/docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf deleted file mode 100644 index 0a3ded4..0000000 Binary files a/skel/docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf and /dev/null differ diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2010.07 b/skel/docs/announce/2010.07 deleted file mode 100644 index 5896acc..0000000 --- a/skel/docs/announce/2010.07 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,125 +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 July 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable -distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the July 2010 release is -available from . - -Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6. We know that -it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and -there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification -that aren't implemented yet. But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form -is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications -and exploring a great new language. These "Star" releases are -intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow -the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the -Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it. - -In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language -("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as -"Rakudo Perl". "Rakudo Star" is a distribution that includes -release #31 of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 2.6.0 of -the Parrot Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, -and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community. We -plan to make Rakudo Star releases on a monthly schedule, with -occasional special releases in response to important bugfixes or -changes. - -Some of the many cool Perl 6 features that are available in this -release of Rakudo Star: - * Perl 6 grammars and regexes - * formal parameter lists and signatures - * metaoperators - * gradual typing - * a powerful object model, including roles and classes - * lazy list evaluation - * multiple dispatch - * smart matching - * junctions and autothreading - * operator overloading (limited forms for now) - * introspection - * currying - * a rich library of builtin operators, functions, and types - * an interactive read-evaluation-print loop - * Unicode at the codepoint level - * resumable exceptions - -There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not -yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming -releases. Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a -"Perl 6.0.0" or "1.0" release. Some of the not-quite-there -features include: - * nested package definitions - * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack - * typed arrays - * macros - * state variables - * threads and concurrency - * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints - * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers - * interactive readline that understands Unicode - * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes - * non-blocking I/O - * most of Synopsis 9 - * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools - -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. - -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. - -Rakudo Star also bundles a number of modules; a partial list of -the modules provided by this release include: - * Blizkost - - enables some Perl 5 modules to be used from within Rakudo Perl 6 - * MiniDBI - - a simple database interface for Rakudo Perl 6 - * Zavolaj - - call C library functions from Rakudo Perl 6 - * SVG and SVG::Plot - - create scalable vector graphics - * HTTP::Daemon - - a simple HTTP server - * XML::Writer - - generate XML - * YAML - - dump Perl 6 objects as YAML - * Term::ANSIColor - - color screen output using ANSI escape sequences - * Test::Mock - - create mock objects and check what methods were called - * Math::Model - - describe and run mathematical models - * Config::INI - - parse and write configuration files - * File::Find - - find files in a given directory - * LWP::Simple - - fetch resources from the web - -These are not considered "core Perl 6 modules", and as module -development for Perl 6 continues to mature, future releases -of Rakudo Star will likely come bundled with a different set -of modules. Deprecation policies for bundled modules will be -created over time, and other Perl 6 distributions may choose -different sets of modules or policies. More information about -Perl 6 modules can be found at http://modules.perl6.org/. - -Rakudo Star also contains a draft of a Perl 6 book -- see - 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. - -Rakudo Star releases are created on a monthly cycle or as needed -in response to important bug fixes or improvements. The next planned -release of Rakudo Star will be on August 24, 2010. - -[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo -[2] http://parrot.org/ diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2010.08 b/skel/docs/announce/2010.08 deleted file mode 100644 index 42ac145..0000000 --- a/skel/docs/announce/2010.08 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,79 +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 August 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable -distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the August 2010 release is -available from . - -Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6. We know that -it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and -there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification -that aren't implemented yet. But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form -is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications -and exploring a great new language. These "Star" releases are -intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow -the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the -Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it. - -In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language -("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as -"Rakudo Perl". The August 2010 Star release includes release #32 -of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 2.7.0 of the Parrot -Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, -and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community. - -This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the -previous Star release: - * Nil is now undefined - * Many regex modifiers are now recognized on the outside of regexes - * Mathematic and range operations are now faster (they're still slow, - but they're significantly faster than they were in the previous release) - * Initial implementations of .pack and .unpack - * MAIN can parse short arguments - * Removed a significant memory leak for loops and other repeated blocks - -This release (temporarily?) omits the Config::INI module that was -included in the 2010.07 release, as it no longer builds with the -shipped version of Rakudo. We hope to see Config::INI return soon. - -There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not -yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming -releases. Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a -"Perl 6.0.0" or "1.0" release. Some of the not-quite-there -features include: - * nested package definitions - * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack - * typed arrays - * macros - * state variables - * threads and concurrency - * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints - * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers - * interactive readline that understands Unicode - * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes - * non-blocking I/O - * most of Synopsis 9 - * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools - -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. - -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. - -Rakudo Star releases are created on a monthly cycle or as needed -in response to important bug fixes or improvements. The next planned -release of Rakudo Star will be on September 28, 2010. - -[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo -[2] http://parrot.org/ diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2010.09 b/skel/docs/announce/2010.09 deleted file mode 100644 index 5fac9da..0000000 --- a/skel/docs/announce/2010.09 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,80 +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 September 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable -distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the September 2010 release is -available from . - -Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6. We know that -it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and -there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification -that aren't implemented yet. But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form -is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications -and exploring a great new language. These "Star" releases are -intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow -the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the -Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it. - -In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language -("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as -"Rakudo Perl". The September 2010 Star release includes release #33 -of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 2.8.0 of the Parrot -Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, -and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community. - -This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the -previous Star release: - * Several performance improvements have been implemented; - notably in the slurp() and reverse() functions - * The series operator has been refactored and updated to the current - specification - * Temporal objects (DateTime, Date, Instant, and Duration) are now - completely implemented - * Enumeration objects now conform much closer to the specification - * 'now' and 'time' are now terms instead of functions. This means - you can write 'time - 1' and it will do what you mean, but - 'time()' is no longer valid. - * The Perl 6 specification tests [3] are now included in the distribution. - -There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not -yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming -releases. Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a -"Perl 6.0.0" or "1.0" release. Some of the not-quite-there -features include: - * nested package definitions - * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack - * typed arrays - * macros - * state variables - * threads and concurrency - * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints - * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers - * interactive readline that understands Unicode - * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes - * non-blocking I/O - * most of Synopsis 9 - * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools - -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. - -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. - -Rakudo Star releases are created on a monthly cycle or as needed -in response to important bug fixes or improvements. The next planned -release of Rakudo Star will be on October 26, 2010. - -[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo -[2] http://parrot.org/ -[3] http://github.com/perl6/roast diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2010.10 b/skel/docs/announce/2010.10 deleted file mode 100644 index e85bf33..0000000 --- a/skel/docs/announce/2010.10 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,77 +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 October 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable -distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the October 2010 release is -available from . - -Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6. We know that -it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and -there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification -that aren't implemented yet. But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form -is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications -and exploring a great new language. These "Star" releases are -intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow -the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the -Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it. - -In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language -("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as -"Rakudo Perl". The October 2010 Star release includes release #34 -of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 2.9.1 of the Parrot -Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, -and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community. - -This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the -previous Star release: - * A simple implementation of 'require' - * Local timezone is available in $*TZ - * Implementations of ms// ss/// (samespace) - * Speed improvements to Str.flip - * Hyperoperator versions of += - * Improved diagnostic messages and warning messages - * True and False now stringify properly - * Attribute modification via introspection - -There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not -yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming -releases. Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a -"Perl 6.0.0" or "1.0" release. Some of the not-quite-there -features include: - * nested package definitions - * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack - * typed arrays - * macros - * state variables - * threads and concurrency - * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints - * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers - * interactive readline that understands Unicode - * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes - * non-blocking I/O - * most of Synopsis 9 - * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools - -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. - -Rakudo Star releases are created on a monthly cycle or as needed -in response to important bug fixes or improvements. The next planned -release of Rakudo Star will be on November 23, 2010. - -[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo -[2] http://parrot.org/ -[3] http://github.com/perl6/roast diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2010.11 b/skel/docs/announce/2010.11 deleted file mode 100644 index 294159d..0000000 --- a/skel/docs/announce/2010.11 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,72 +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 November 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable -distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the November 2010 release is -available from . - -Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6. We know that -it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and -there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification -that aren't implemented yet. But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form -is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications -and exploring a great new language. These "Star" releases are -intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow -the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the -Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it. - -In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language -("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as -"Rakudo Perl". The November 2010 Star release includes release #35 -of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 2.10.1 of the Parrot -Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, -and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community. - -This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the -previous Star release: - * qw// is implemented - * The .trans method is 5x faster - * Indexing with ranges and Whatever offsets now works - -There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not -yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming -releases. Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a -"Perl 6.0.0" or "1.0" release. Some of the not-quite-there -features include: - * nested package definitions - * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack - * typed arrays - * macros - * state variables - * threads and concurrency - * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints - * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers - * interactive readline that understands Unicode - * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes - * non-blocking I/O - * most of Synopsis 9 - * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools - -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. - -Rakudo Star releases are created on a monthly cycle or as needed -in response to important bug fixes or improvements. The next planned -release of Rakudo Star will be on December 28, 2010. - -[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo -[2] http://parrot.org/ -[3] http://github.com/perl6/roast diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2010.12 b/skel/docs/announce/2010.12 deleted file mode 100644 index 67d088f..0000000 --- a/skel/docs/announce/2010.12 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,72 +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 December 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable -distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the December 2010 release is -available from . - -Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6. We know that -it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and -there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification -that aren't implemented yet. But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form -is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications -and exploring a great new language. These "Star" releases are -intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow -the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the -Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it. - -In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language -("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as -"Rakudo Perl". The December 2010 Star release includes release #36 -of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 2.11.0 of the Parrot -Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, -and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community. - -This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the -previous Star release: - * New .trans algorithm - * Configuration improvements - * More bug fixes - -There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not -yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming -releases. Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a -"Perl 6.0.0" or "1.0" release. Some of the not-quite-there -features include: - * nested package definitions - * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack - * typed arrays - * macros - * state variables - * threads and concurrency - * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints - * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers - * interactive readline that understands Unicode - * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes - * non-blocking I/O - * most of Synopsis 9 - * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools - -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. - -Starting with the January 2011 release, Rakudo Star releases will be -created on a three-month cycle, or as needed in response to important -bug fixes or improvements. The next planned release of Rakudo Star -will be on January 25, 2011. - -[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo -[2] http://parrot.org/ diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2011.01 b/skel/docs/announce/2011.01 deleted file mode 100644 index be3c8a3..0000000 --- a/skel/docs/announce/2011.01 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,73 +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 January 2011 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable -distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the January 2011 release is -available from . - -Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6. We know that -it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and -there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification -that aren't implemented yet. But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form -is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications -and exploring a great new language. These "Star" releases are -intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow -the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the -Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it. - -In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language -("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as -"Rakudo Perl". The January 2011 Star release includes release #37 -of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 3.0.0 of the Parrot -Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, -and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community. - -This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the -previous Star release: - * faster subroutine calls (type cache) - * implemented 'handles Rolename' trait - * 'use Devel::Trace' debugging pragma - * improved parsing of keyword boundaries - * faster .comb - -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: - * nested package definitions - * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack - * typed arrays - * macros - * state variables - * threads and concurrency - * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints - * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers - * interactive readline that understands Unicode - * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes - * non-blocking I/O - * most of Synopsis 9 - * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools - -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. - -Starting with this January 2011 release, Rakudo Star releases will be -created on a three-month cycle, or as needed in response to important -bug fixes or improvements. (The Rakudo compiler will continue with -monthly releases.) The next planned release of Rakudo Star will be -in April 2011. - -[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo -[2] http://parrot.org/ diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2011.04 b/skel/docs/announce/2011.04 deleted file mode 100644 index c441c12..0000000 --- a/skel/docs/announce/2011.04 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,79 +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 April 2011 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable -distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the April 2011 release is -available from . - -Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6. We know that -it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and -there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification -that aren't implemented yet. But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form -is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications -and exploring a great new language. These "Star" releases are -intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow -the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the -Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it. - -In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language -("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as -"Rakudo Perl". The April 2011 Star release includes release #40 -of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 3.3.0 of the Parrot -Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, -and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community. - -This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the -previous Star release: - * Modules MiniDBI, form, HTTP::Daemon, Yaml and Module::Tools are - removed in this release. - * New modules Pies (including panda, the module installer) and - HTTP::Server::Simple have been added. - * New implementation of IO::Socket::INET, with basic IPv6 support - * -p and -n command-line options are now available - * Many new IO improvements, including stat-related methods - * New --ll-backtrace command-line switch for printing PIR level stack traces - * Preliminary implementation of Infix 'orelse' - * Added Str.indent - * Bugfixes to negation meta operator - * Support for complex conjugation - -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: - * nested package definitions - * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack - * typed arrays - * macros - * state variables - * threads and concurrency - * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints - * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers - * interactive readline that understands Unicode - * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes - * non-blocking I/O - * most of Synopsis 9 - * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools - -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. - -Rakudo Star releases are created on a three-month cycle, or as -needed in response to important bug fixes or improvements. -(The Rakudo compiler will continue with monthly releases.) -The next planned release of Rakudo Star will be in July 2011. - -[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo -[2] http://parrot.org/ diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2011.07 b/skel/docs/announce/2011.07 deleted file mode 100644 index b51858b..0000000 --- a/skel/docs/announce/2011.07 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,84 +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 July 2011 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable -distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the July 2011 release is -available from . - -IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT UPCOMING RELEASES: This is the last Rakudo Star -release to use a compiler from the current "master" branch of Rakudo. -For the past several months, Rakudo compiler development has -primarily occurred in a separate "nom" ("New Object Model") branch of -its repository. Shortly after this release, the "nom" branch will -become the new "master" branch and will be the source for future -compiler and Star releases. - -In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language -("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as -"Rakudo Perl". The July 2011 Star release includes release #43 -of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 3.6.0 of the Parrot -Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, -and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community. - -The Rakudo team plans to issue another distribution release -in August 2011 based on the new "nom" compiler. The new -compiler contains many improvements over the current line -of development (including vastly improved performance), but also -will not be 100% backwards-compatible due to changes in the -Perl 6 language specification and elimination of some workarounds. -Existing Rakudo Star users looking for stability should continue -to use the July 2011 release as the new distribution releases -stabilize over the next several months. - -Details about deprecations and migration guidelines will be -provided in future releases and on rakudo.org . - -This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the -previous Star release: - * 10%-30% improvement in compile and execution speed - * New gcd (greatest common divisor) and lcm (largest common multiple) operators - * Int.base - * Call counter for Perl 6-level subroutines - * Better handling of &infix:<=> right associativity - * Fix bug in exponentiation of negative numbers - * Fix building on systems with smaller RAM - -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: - * nested package definitions - * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack - * typed arrays - * macros - * state variables - * threads and concurrency - * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints - * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers - * interactive readline that understands Unicode - * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes - * non-blocking I/O - * most of Synopsis 9 - * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools - -There is a new online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features -that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo Star -2011.07 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. - -[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo -[2] http://parrot.org/ diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2012.01 b/skel/docs/announce/2012.01 deleted file mode 100644 index 44b1f11..0000000 --- a/skel/docs/announce/2012.01 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,122 +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 January 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and -usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the January 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 #48 of the -Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 3.11 of the Parrot Virtual -Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other -resources collected from the Perl 6 community. - -Significantly, this is the first distribution release based on the -"nom" (New Object Model) development branch of Rakudo. This work -has been carried out with the aim of increasing performance and -correctness, as well as providing a better base for taking on a -range of missing features. Here are some of the major improvements -in this release over the previous distribution release. - -* Greatly improved performance in many areas. For some scripts, this - release offers an order of magnitude performance improvement. - -* POD6 support, including the $=POD variable to make the POD available - at runtime and a --doc option to get at the POD - -* The Int type now has big integer semantics - -* Initial work on native types, which can be used to write much - more efficient code - -* LTM-driven protoregexes - -* Meta-programming support, including custom meta-classes, overriding - method dispatch and much more - -* Exception handling is much closer to the specification, and thus much - more useful - -* Better package handling, including true separate compilation, lexical - packages and better nested package handling - -* An optimizer, which improves generated code as well as catching - a range of issues at compile-time that previously made it to runtime - -* Backslash sequences in character classes - -* Stubbed methods from roles are now required, providing interface - style functionality - -* Typed arrays and hashes, as well as supporting for binding to - array and hash elements - -Due to improvements in the Perl 6 language specification, and -changes to Rakudo to track them, some existing code will need -changes. Here are some of the major differences to be aware of. - -* Attributes can no longer be initialized using "new" unless they - are declared as having an accessor; either give them one or write - a BUILD submethod - -* The proto keyword is no longer used to declare a multi-dispatch - fallback - -* You may no longer do 'filename'.lines; use 'filename'.IO.lines - -We have maintained backwards compatibility with some changed pieces -of syntax, but will drop them in an upcoming release: - -* "<...>" in proto regex bodies; now this should be written "*" - -* The use of "**" with a separator in regexes; this is now done by - using "%" or "%%" on another quantifier - -While this release does contain a great number of improvements, -unfortunately we have regressed in a few places. Of note: - -* Some cases of auto-vivification do not work - -* The binding of a capture against a signature literal is - broken - -We will be working to restore this functionality for future -Rakudo Star releases; if you depend heavily on it, you may -wish to stick with the previous Rakudo Star release for -another month. - -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: - * pack and unpack - * macros - * threads and concurrency - * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints - * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers - * 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 -2012.01 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. - -[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo -[2] http://parrot.org/ diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2012.02 b/skel/docs/announce/2012.02 deleted file mode 100644 index a32f5da..0000000 --- a/skel/docs/announce/2012.02 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,101 +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 February 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and -usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the February 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 #49 of the -Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.1 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. - -* The FatRat type is implemented, and Rat arithmetic now properly - defaults to Num if the denominator is too big - -* Object hashes are implemented, and can be declared with the syntax - my %h{Any} (for a hash with keys of type Any) - -* The syntax is now implemented in regexes; - can also be used to call predeclared lexical rules - -* The Int($x) coercion syntax is implemented - -* &rename and © are now implemented - -* Improvements to the reduction meta-operator (order of magnitude faster, - some parsing issues fixed) - -* The regex built-in is now available, and matches whatever the - last successful match matched - -* A $match.make(...) method is available to set the AST for a match - object not stored in the $/ variable - -* Improved backtraces - -This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error -reporting and better failure modes. Many more exceptions are thrown -as typed exceptions. - -Due to continued evolution of and convergence with the Perl 6 spec, there -are some changes to existing functionality that may affect your code: - -* You may no longer use the $.x form in submethods and attribute - initializers, as per spec; use the non-virtual $!x instead. - -* The LHS of the xx operator is now thunked - -* .conjugate is now called .conj - -* Enumeration values .gist to just the key, not the full name - -* An empty Buf is now False in boolean context - -Currently, we have maintained backwards compatibility with some -changed pieces of syntax, but will drop them in an upcoming release: - -* "<...>" in proto regex bodies; now this should be written "*" - -* The use of "**" with a separator in regexes; this is now done by - using "%" or "%%" on another quantifier - -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: - * pack and unpack - * macros - * threads and concurrency - * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints - * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers - * 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 -2012.02 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. - -[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo -[2] http://parrot.org/ diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2012.04 b/skel/docs/announce/2012.04 deleted file mode 100644 index 3acad8c..0000000 --- a/skel/docs/announce/2012.04 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,80 +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 April 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and -usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the April 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 2012.04.1 [0] of the -Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.3 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. - -* much improved startup time - -* much more robust module precompilation - -* autovivification for arrays and hashes is implemented again - -* many phasers like PRE, POST and REDO are now implemented - -* improved support for calling C functions and modelling structs and arrays - via NativeCall.pm6 - -* now includes modules URI, LWP::Simple, jsonrpc and Bailador (a Perl 6 port - of Dancer) - -This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error -reporting and better failure modes. Many more exceptions are thrown -as typed exceptions. - -Some notable incompatible changes from the previous release include - - * the 'lib' directory is not included in the default module search path - anymore. You can manipulate the search path with the PERL6LIB environment - variable - - * 'defined' used to be a prefix operator, and is now a regular subroutine. - This means you must updated code that relies 'defined' taking only one - argument. For example 'defined $x ?? $a !! $b' should be written as - '$x.defined ?? $a !! $b' or 'defined($x) ?? $a !! $b'. - -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: - * pack and unpack - * 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 -2012.04 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/2012.04.1 -[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo -[2] http://parrot.org/ diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2012.05 b/skel/docs/announce/2012.05 deleted file mode 100644 index d6f2575..0000000 --- a/skel/docs/announce/2012.05 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,67 +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 May 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 2012.05 [0] of the -Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.4 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. - -* -I and -M command-line options -* support for non-Int enums -* 'use' now accepts positional arguments and is able to import by tag name -* 'import' now works -* basic support for Version literals -* %*ENV now propagates into subprocesses -* basic implementation of pack and unpack ported from 'ng' branch -* fff flip-flop operator is now implemented, ff has been improved -* various new regex features and improvements - -Rakudo now also includes the lib.pm module. - -This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error -reporting and better failure modes. More exceptions are thrown -as typed exceptions. - -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 -2012.05 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/2012.05 -[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo -[2] http://parrot.org/ 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/ diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2012.07 b/skel/docs/announce/2012.07 deleted file mode 100644 index d8f5d56..0000000 --- a/skel/docs/announce/2012.07 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,108 +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 July 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and -usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the July 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 2012.07 [0] of the -Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.6 of the Parrot Virtual -Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other -resources collected from the Perl 6 community. - -Some of the new features added to this release include: - -* Built-in metaobjects (e.g. Metamodel::ClassHOW) now inherit from Any - -* &open now supports the :enc/:encoding option - -* anonymous subset types (e.g., 'subset :: of Int where { $_ > 0 }') - -* Rakudo Star now ships with the Template::Mojo module - -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. - -Starting with this release, we will also identify changes to the -implementation or specification that can cause breakages in existing -Perl 6 code. The following features have been deprecated or modified -due to changes in the Perl 6 specification, and are being removed -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, - add a in front of leading whitespace to make it meta again. - Scheduled for the 2012.08 release. - -* 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. - Scheduled for the 2012.08 release, but may end up in 2012.09 . - -* The method Str.bytes will be removed. To get the number of codepoints - in a string, use .codes instead. To get the number of bytes in a - given encoding, use $str.encode($encoding).bytes . - Scheduled for the 2012.08 release. - -* The method Str.lcfirst will be removed without replacement. - Scheduled for the 2012.08 release. - -* The method Str.ucfirst will eventually be removed, and replaced by - Str.tc. - No schedule yet, depends on having tc implemented first. - -* 'abs' is currently a prefix operator, and will be changed to a normal - subroutine. - Scheduled for the 2012.08 release. - -* The integer argument to IO::Socket.recv will be interpreted as number of - characters/codepoints. - Scheduled for the 2012.08 release. - -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 -2012.07 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/2012.07 -[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo -[2] http://parrot.org/ diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2012.08 b/skel/docs/announce/2012.08 deleted file mode 100644 index f734c36..0000000 --- a/skel/docs/announce/2012.08 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,104 +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 August 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and -usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the August 2012 -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 2012.08 [0] of the -Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.6 of the Parrot Virtual -Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other -resources collected from the Perl 6 community. - -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. More exceptions are thrown as typed -exceptions, and more meta-model errors have been fixed to properly -report line numbers. - -Starting with this release, we will also identify changes to the -implementation or specification that can cause breakages in existing -Perl 6 code. The following features have been deprecated or modified -due to changes in the Perl 6 specification, and are being removed -or changed as follows: - -[TODO: update the below list] - -* 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, - add a in front of leading whitespace to make it meta again. - Scheduled for the 2012.08 release. - -* 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. - Scheduled for the 2012.08 release, but may end up in 2012.09 . - -* The method Str.bytes will be removed. To get the number of codepoints - in a string, use .codes instead. To get the number of bytes in a - given encoding, use $str.encode($encoding).bytes . - Scheduled for the 2012.08 release. - -* The method Str.lcfirst will be removed without replacement. - Scheduled for the 2012.08 release. - -* The method Str.ucfirst will eventually be removed, and replaced by - Str.tc. - No schedule yet, depends on having tc implemented first. - -* 'abs' is currently a prefix operator, and will be changed to a normal - subroutine. - Scheduled for the 2012.08 release. - -* The integer argument to IO::Socket.recv will be interpreted as number of - characters/codepoints. - Scheduled for the 2012.08 release. - -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 -2012.08 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/2012.08 -[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo -[2] http://parrot.org/ diff --git a/skel/docs/cheatsheet.txt b/skel/docs/cheatsheet.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 8b8d104..0000000 --- a/skel/docs/cheatsheet.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,64 +0,0 @@ -Perl 6 cheat sheet v2 »ö« - -SIGILS MAJOR/MINOR CONTEXTS ACCESS ARRAYS HASHES -$scalar item list sink whole: @array[] %hash{} -@array Str flat/slice element: @array[0] %hash{'a'} -%hash Num lazy/eager/hyper (or) %hash -&code Bool slice: @array[0,2] %hash{'a','b'} - COMPOSERS (or) %hash -TWIGILS [ ] array -$normal-lexical { } block/hash AUTOMATIC DEREFERENCE -$?compiler-constant < > quotewords &($foo)(1,2) == $foo(1,2) -$*dynamic-or-global (,) parcel @($foo)[1] == $foo[1] -$.public-accessor :() signature %($foo){'bar'} == $foo -$!private-attribute \() capture @(@($foo)[1])[2] == $foo[1][2] -$^positional-param -$:named-parameter CONTROL SYNTAX -$=pod-info for LIST { } # implicit $_ arg -$ for LIST -> $a, $b { } # explicit args -$~slang-variable while/until EXPR { } - repeat while/until EXPR { } # do at least once -OPERATOR PRECEDENCE loop { } loop (a;b;c) { } # parens required! -.method .[] i if EXPR { } elsif EXPR { } else { } -++ -- unless EXPR { } # no else allowed! -** given EXPR { when EXPR { } default { } } -unary + - ~ ! ? ^ EXPR if EXPR for LIST; # list comprehension -* / % %% div next, last, redo # loop controls -+ - proceed, succeed # switch controls -x xx TYPES -~ Bool Bit Int Rat FatRat UInt Num Complex int32 complex64 etc. -& Str Cat Blob Char Byte Codepoint Grapheme Buf buf8 buf32 utf8 -| ^ IO Mu Any Cool Junction Whatever Match -sleep abs sin temp Parcel Capture Signature -<=> leg cmp .. but SCOPE DECLARATORS Pair Range Set Bag -~~ > == gt eq === eqv !op my lexical scope KeyHash KeySet KeyBag -&& our package scope Scalar Array Hash Code -|| ^^ // min max has instance scope Enum Order TrigBase -??!! ff anon no scope at all Block Routine Sub -= := op= => state persistent lexical Method Regex -so not augment benign parasitic Failure Exception -, : supersede deadly parasitic Instant Duration -X Xop Z Zop ... Date DateTime -say die map etc. OPERATOR DOMAINS -and Numeric: == !==(!=) + < > <=> <= >= -or xor Stringy: eq !eq(ne) ~ lt gt leg le ge -<== ==> Value: eqv !eqv before after cmp !after !before - ObjectID: === !=== -METAOPERATORS LINKS IRC -[op] reduce listop to A op B op C... perl6.org #perl6 irc.freenode.net -op= A = A op B rakudo.org #parrot irc.perl.org -!op !(A op B) -»op« hyper/vectorize REGEX METACHARS REGEX MODIFIERS -Zop zip with op ^ $ string begin/end :i ignore case -Xop cross with op ^^ $$ line begin/end :m ignore marks -Rop reverse args + one or more :g global -Sop sequentialize * zero or more :r ratchet - ? zero or one :s sigspace -SPECIAL VARIABLES **1..3 repeat in range :4th nth occurrence -$_ current topic () capture to $0,$1 :4x n times -$/ regex result [] no capture -$! error object subrule REGEX CHARCLASSES -@*ARGS command line <[]> character class . == anychar, \N non \n -@*INC include path | parallel or \s == , \S non -%*ENV environment || serial or \d == , \D non -$*PID process id « » word boundary \w == <+alpha+digit+[_]> -- cgit v1.1