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Incorporate jnthn++'s suggestions.
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colomon committed May 20, 2010
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Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release named
after a Perl Mongers group. The May 2010 release is code named
"Erlangen" in recognition of Erlangen.pm and the Perl 6 talk they had
Moritz Lenz, one of our core develepors, give this month.
"Erlangen" in recognition of Erlangen.pm and the Perl 6 talk that Moritz
Lenz, one of our core develepors, gave this month.

Some of the specific changes and improvements occuring with this
release include:

[Note: next five are leftovers from Moscow. -colomon]
* Expressions that begin with a variable and end with a circumfix now properly
interpolate into double-quoted strings, like "@array.sort()" or
"%hash<key>".
* Leixcal classes and roles were implemented. Additionally, anonymous classes
- which were never quite right in alpha - are now implemented more
correctly, and anonymous roles are also supported.

* Item assignment now has tighter precdence than list assignment, so both
'my @a = 1, 2, 3' and '$a = 1, $b = 2' magically work.
*

* Most of the DateTime built-in type has been backported from the "alpha"
branch, and is now accompanied by a Date type for date-only calculations.
*

* Many obsolete uses of Perl 5 constructs are now caught and give helpful
error messages.
* Numeric / Real roles much closer to the spec now.

* As always, many additional small features and bug fixes make working with
Rakudo more pleasant.
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