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Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #29 ("Erlangen") | |||
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On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the | |||
May 2010 development release of Rakudo Perl #29 "Erlangen". | |||
Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine | |||
(see http://www.parrot.org). The tarball for the May 2010 release | |||
is available from http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads . | |||
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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. | |||
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Some of the specific changes and improvements occuring with this | |||
release include: | |||
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[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>". | |||
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* Item assignment now has tighter precdence than list assignment, so both | |||
'my @a = 1, 2, 3' and '$a = 1, $b = 2' magically work. | |||
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* 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. | |||
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* Many obsolete uses of Perl 5 constructs are now caught and give helpful | |||
error messages. | |||
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* As always, many additional small features and bug fixes make working with | |||
Rakudo more pleasant. | |||
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* Rakudo now passes 32,347 spectests. We estimate that there are about | |||
39,500 tests in the test suite, so Rakudo passes about 82% of all tests. | |||
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For a more detailed list of changes see "docs/ChangeLog". | |||
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The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors for | |||
making Rakudo Perl possible. If you would like to contribute, | |||
see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help , ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org | |||
mailing list, or ask on IRC #perl6 on freenode. | |||
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The next release of Rakudo (#30) is scheduled for June 17, 2010. | |||
A list of the other planned release dates and code names for 2010 is | |||
available in the "docs/release_guide.pod" file. In general, Rakudo | |||
development releases are scheduled to occur two days after each | |||
Parrot monthly release. Parrot releases the third Tuesday of each month. | |||
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Have fun! |