Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into js

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<!--
+
+    The template below contains optional suggestions. If you cannot
+    provide some information, simply omit it.
+
+-->
+
+## The Problem
+
+## Expected Behavior
+
+## Actual Behavior
+
+## Steps to Reproduce
+<!-- Provide a set of steps to reproduce the problem.
+     If the program unexpectedly crashes, please run it with
+     `perl6 --ll-exception` and provide the produced output. -->
+
+## Environment
+* Operating system: 
+* Compiler version (`perl6 -v`): 
+

.gitignore

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ perl6-js
 perl6-js.bat
 t/localtest.data
 t/spec
-t/packages
+t/packages/tap-harness6
 /panda
 perl6.c
 perl6.o

.travis.yml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ addons:
     packages:
     # install toolchains
     - gcc-6
-    - openjdk-7-jdk
+    - oracle-java8-installer
 
 script:
     - perl Configure.pl $RAKUDO_OPTIONS --moar-option=--cc=$(command -v gcc-6 >/dev/null 2>&1; if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then printf "gcc"; else printf "gcc-6"; fi)
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ script:
 
 branches:
    only:
-     - nom
+     - master
      - /smoke-me/
 
 notifications:

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+# Filing Issues
+
+## Potential bugs
+
+Please include a way for developers to reproduce the problem. A small program
+that demonstrates a problem is best.
+
+Describe the behaviour you're observing and how it differs from expectations.
+Include the version of the compiler you're using (run `perl6 -v`) as well as
+the type and version of the operating system (e.g. `Windows 10`)
+
+--------------------------------
+
 # How to Contribute to Rakudo Perl 6
 
 Contributions to Rakudo are very welcome.

Configure.pl

@@ -18,8 +18,10 @@
 my $uclang = uc $lang;
 my $win    = $^O eq 'MSWin32';
 my $slash  = $win ? '\\' : '/';
-
-
+# We don't use ExtUtils::Command in Configure.pl, but it is used in the Makefile
+# Try `use`ing it here so users know if they need to install this module
+# (not included with *every* Perl installation)
+use ExtUtils::Command;
 MAIN: {
     if (-r 'config.default') {
         unshift @ARGV, shellwords(slurp('config.default'));

INSTALL.txt

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 
         $ perl Configure.pl --gen-moar --gen-nqp --backends=moar     # Moar only
     or:
-        $ perl Configure.pl --gen-nqp --backends=jvm  # needs JDK 1.7 installed
+        $ perl Configure.pl --gen-nqp --backends=jvm  # needs JDK 1.8 installed
     then:
         $ make
 

README.md

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ text file.
 
 ## Building and Installing Rakudo
 
-[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/rakudo/rakudo.svg?branch=nom)](https://travis-ci.org/rakudo/rakudo) [![Build status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/github/rakudo/rakudo?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/rakudo/rakudo/branch/nom)
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/rakudo/rakudo.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/rakudo/rakudo) [![Build status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/github/rakudo/rakudo?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/rakudo/rakudo/branch/master)
 
 See the INSTALL.txt file for detailed prerequisites and build and
 installation instructions.
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ https://github.com/MoarVM/MoarVM manually and install them individually.
 
 ### Configuring Rakudo to run on the JVM
 
-Note that to run Rakudo on JVM, JDK 1.7 must be installed. To automatically
+Note that to run Rakudo on JVM, JDK 1.8 must be installed. To automatically
 download, build, and install a fresh NQP, run:
 
     perl Configure.pl --gen-nqp --backends=jvm
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ Rakudo, its components, and the Perl 6 language specification.
 If you have a patch that fixes a bug or adds a new feature, please
 create a pull request using github's pull request infrastructure.
 
-See [our contribution guidelines](https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/CONTRIBUTING.md) for more information.
+See [our contribution guidelines](https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for more information.
 
 ## Line editing and tab completion
 

VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-2017.08
+2017.10

appveyor.yml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ configuration:
 # Monitored branches
 branches:
   only:
-    - nom
+    - master
     - /smoke-me/
 
 # To stop automatic build of VS solution files

docs/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,216 @@
+New in 2017.11:
+ + SPECIAL NOTES:
+ + Security:
+ + Deprecations:
+ + Fixes:
+ + Additions:
+ + Removals:
+ + Build system:
+ + Efficiency:
+ + Internal:
+
+New in 2017.10:
+ + SPECIAL NOTES:
+    + This release includes fixes to || alternation in :ratchet
+      mode. Code that was unintentionally relying on buggy behavior
+      (backtracking in :ratchet mode) may now produce unwanted
+      results (namely will fail to match) [963a0f06]
+ + Security:
+    + Restricted dynamic lookup metasyntax in rx EVAL [1d63dfd2][2448195d]
+ + Deprecations:
+    + Deprecated .new on native types [9d9c7f9c][cc6c0558]
+    + Deprecated :buffer `open` arg in favor of :out-buffer [f9c10c21]
+ + Fixes:
+    + Fixed Hash.perl to include Scalar indicators [47d6c66e]
+    + Fixed :delete with lazy Arrays [0385b2aa]
+    + Fixed sanitization of on-demand Supplies [93a66d75]
+    + Fixed duplicate done/quit messages [9e179355]
+    + Fixed non-blocking `react { await blah() }` [29863a0b]
+    + Fixed issues with Int.new [dff7d9b2][0d2ca0d7][0834036d]
+    + Fixed isa method on a subset [cee1be22]
+    + Fixed Supply.zip to eager-shift its values [f9400d9a]
+    + Fixed two utf8-c8 bugs [963a0f06]
+    + Fixed infinite loop in .^roles of a class that does Rational [0961abe8]
+    + Changed uniname to give better strings for non-unique names [9dba498f]
+    + Fixed .push-all/.skip-all on SlippyIterators [41896b7b]
+    + Fixed and improved `**` regex quantifier [681d6be9][4ca1fc3c]
+    + Made cmp-ok to try harder to give useful description [8479a1ba]
+    + Made List.ACCEPTS non-fatal for lazy iterables [1b9638e2]
+    + Fixed some unspace parsing cases [11070e0f]
+    + Fixed &chdir failing to respect :CWD attribute [4906a1de]
+    + Fixed Blob.gist to trim its guts to 100 elements [ac8e5f43]
+    + Improved .perl and .gist methods on Maps and Hashes [aad8991e]
+        [39461368][381c4c3b]
+    + Fixed explosion in IO::CatHandle.nl-out [83008443]
+    + Fixed .pick and .roll on object hashes [12fcece4]
+    + Made cmp-ok take its arguments raw [3684384d]
+    + Fixed `is default(Mu)` on attributes [54507ac9]
+    + Made Array.List fill holes with Nil [e1351219]
+    + Fixed BagHash.grab with large values [975fcf6c]
+    + Fixed .tail with large values [43e7b893]
+    + Improved .gist of nodal methods [b6982e68][bb1df2cb]
+    + Fixed IO::Pipe.close not always returning the Proc [74328278]
+    + Fixed handling of type objects in set operators [8a88d149]
+    + Fixed location of errors coming from Channel [82a38c29]
+    + Fixed lockup when scheduling with degenerate delays [df01ad97][031f8cf7]
+    + Fixed segfault in getlexdyn [4f5fc520][4c370072]
+    + Fixed poor error with some slurpies with defaults [a92950fb]
+    + Fixed Int.new to properly give a new object [e4a5bb17]
+    + Fixed .STORE leaving behind elements on native arrays [a85c8d48]
+    + Various async improvements [633a15b8][ef4d16fe][f53d3963]
+        [26a9c313][9d903408][0d600a0c][54783920][e0e5e6fa][b16aba01]
+        [d8890a82][73aeee6c][2a826238][3deda842][f58ac999][40c2d0cd]
+        [c46de00f][e5c17462][6e42b37e][80f883bc][6af44f8d][e70969e3]
+        [30462d76][97b11edd]
+    + Various fixes and improvements to hyper/race [cc2a0643][2352efe5]
+        [d43b3738][dfa230f7][1fdc84fe][cef4806f][ea51d19b][374ee3e2]
+        [ad0dd8e7][41729e93][d74ba041][83676112][2580a0a6][cf1673d9]
+        [7e9b9633][870eaa31][d37a19ea][da977785][270e7c8a][ee3f0f4f]
+        [a042fd92]
+    + Various improvements to warnings and error reporting [38186fcd]
+        [cf95ce81][66c2d05f][a845ac3d][48a84d6a][bb45791c][279bae08]
+        [6542bb80][5747bc71][c7a82d45][fb7abf06][ac97a401][64b001a1]
+        [1ea3297b][56eef696][25c87d0d][5d3ebc09][de2b9ff7][084078e1]
+        [3acde358][b3bb8c40][e611978f][12774237][33e113a2][9554a97c]
+ + Additions:
+    + Improved .Capture semantics on all core types [4ba12ff1]
+        [bad9fefd][cd5864cf]
+    + Added trim* subroutines taking Cool instance [5a19dffa]
+        [691f8b7b][e01e5bc3]
+    + Added Lock::Async [53dd776c][4a8038c2][85bdd38a][38896402][6170cb9d]
+    + Added atomic reference op support on JVM backend [32e4a1de][59c4117f]
+    + Added $*USAGE [0b15f672]
+    + Added :bin parameter to IO::Handle.slurp [e2ec569b]
+    + Added support for Bufs in &EVAL/&EVALFILE [6c928d61]
+    + Added warning on typical precedence errors with infix:<..> [26bdc95c]
+    + Added --repl-mode command line option [9ce896d8][20518454]
+        [5c7bbea0][93e599db][de0533c4]
+    + Implemented typed pointer increment and array dereference
+        [3ca6554f][bc5fbfcb][2fba0ba0]
+    + Added X::Numeric::CannotConvert exception type [2e726528]
+        [b377de1c][f04bd1d6]
+    + Added IO::Handle.out-buffer for controlling the buffer size
+        [f9c10c21][765dd694]
+    + Added IO::Path.parent(Int) for getting up more than one level
+        [7bea3a2d][78d8d509]
+ + Removals:
+    + Removed $*MAIN-ALLOW-NAMED-ANYWHERE [9cb4b167]
+    + Removed support for ornate parenthesis from quoting constructs [9ce896d8]
+    + Renamed $*INITTIME to $*INIT-INSTANT according to the spec
+        [6bdb2dd3][bd6c6403]
+ + Build system:
+    + Reworked REPL tests [be4d57de][338a0972][7c8a2739][f8edb829][1ce3a36d]
+    + Various changes related to v6.d prep [7d830d5c][6cb810d2][36bc8e2d]
+        [31cbdada][16f64182][50d2013d][f62950dc][dd8a6102]
+        [36122f15][2a512f0c][03b1febc][edce8f53][c6ff787a]
+ + Efficiency:
+    + Made startup time up to 5 ms faster [48406db6][a09f5f21][bb5583ae]
+    + Made chained ops up to 36x faster [a92d0369]
+    + Made ≥, ≤, and ≠ unicode ops as fast as ascii equivalents
+        [6ec21cb4][1af2a745][43c348a8][9ff2f98f][6ad06fad]
+    + Made &infix:<cmp> with Version:Ds 7.2x faster [1d9553f0]
+    + Made &DEPRECATED 27% faster when vfrom is too large [145e3156]
+    + Made Blob.gist 26x faster [20a99fc3]
+    + Made Hash.gist 24% faster [69af24c4]
+    + Made @a[42..*] 4.2x faster [456358e3]
+    + Various NativeCall speedups [a06ebaf2][269fe7db][80d6b425]
+    + Significantly faster interpolation of variables into regexes
+        [1761540e][0a68a18f][d73d500b][1775259a][e8003c87]
+        [4d3ccd83][04b171bd][317ae16c][dd880cad][2262cc47]
+    + Other small optimizations [9d4a833b][6902c590][fb4eb666]
+        [b9c98531][4fae0711][921db910][c91c4011][98fae3d8]
+        [a462d0a2][16c2a157][5f6896bd][397692ac][476741e7]
+ + Internal:
+    + New JIT [2724a851][ff063e7b]
+    + Better scheduler [d2eb7423][80b49320][340d8ed3][c50d35a9][9af5607d]
+        [683037be][7c18112c][c285b489][b5605c2d][3b98fb9e][596611c8]
+        [6f6e62ea][176a6fae][43b7cfde][59bfa5ab][27590e8b][e95eb42c]
+        [2c4868b8]
+    + Added RAKUDO_SCHEDULER_DEBUG_STATUS env var [de311f46]
+    + Bumped libuv to the latest version [198b8497]
+    + Reworked BUILDALL method autogeneration [9837687d][63cf246f]
+        [5ad2fffe][31a03a41][eb9c3d4d][346dfeff][70ca505a][af2ab751]
+        [5cd9197f][6824e192][7363f898][4959df3f][dd943ede][d3c48185]
+        [371befe8][4d0ead24][92f239b5][7fa707db][d76af6aa][e513b857]
+        [f80a8461][fcbd8adb][21788c89][e2f8a57d][b58bd8fb][0dd6af71]
+        [f946bd35][cef3bf3e][92e51c3d][5144216f][ebd6440c]
+
+New in 2017.09:
+ + Fixes:
+    + Fixed NativeCall signature check for unsupported native types [4077842c]
+    + Fixed .made called on a Match on which .make was never called [5db5b1db]
+    + Fixed flattening of a typed hash [6cec6b72]
+    + Fixed iterator on pairs with Mu's [a5014fd0]
+    + Fixed Supply.batch with non-int elems and elems == 1 [98f9fffe][7d1ece80]
+    + Improved error message on nameless postfix `.::` [5969f21e]
+    + Fixed ::("GLOBAL") [1f6a782c]
+    + Refined merging of one() junctions [79604a88]
+    + Fixed error message with leaking variable name in FailGoal [ed4f6cc9]
+    + Implemented missing Instant.Instant [51709e01]
+    + Fixed thread safety issues with signal introspection [1f411693]
+    + Fixed thread safety issues in the `signal` sub [13b6a33c]
+    + Fixed thread safety of "foo{$x}bar" [59454b03]
+    + Made Bool.enums consistent with Enumeration.enums [e7a58806]
+    + Fixed doubled path issue in IO::Notification.watch-path [2362dfd6]
+    + Disabled interactive REPL for non-TTY input [b6a60236]
+    + Fix ignoremark and casechange operations of graphemes which begin with
+        Unicode Prepend characters [7f526c1e]
+    + Suppress line number in X::Package::Stubbed [edac1d68][7ba9b7cd]
+    + Fixed race condition in Channel awaiter [b30ac08a]
+    + Fixed NYI compilation of NativeCall sigs with optional params [1818de98]
+    + Fixed missing deconts in nqp::eqaddr() tests [880b33e2]
+    + Fixed Enumeration:D === Enumeration:D [8d938461]
+    + Fixed non-blocking await when holding locks [f26d1e24]
+    + Fixed non-blocking await-all to respect Slip [a137c0de]
+ + Additions:
+    + Added support for Str operations with Junctions [753c9a5e][7cd153f4]
+        [95a70ca3][0b19baf0][d2f31bb7][e18291e2][8b5d283c]
+    + Added support for Unicode 10 [64dd94c2]
+    + Added complete Unicode Collation Algorithm implementation [9b42484a]
+        [5f335065][ec18efa0]
+    + .collate/coll/unicmp operators are no longer experimental
+        (Note: $*COLLATION dynamic variable is still experimental) [5f335065]
+    + Added Thread.is-initial-thread method [59a2056a]
+    + Added output buffering for non-TTYs [44680029][4b02b8aa]
+    + Made temp and let on a Failure throw it [80a3255b]
+    + Made sure that open files are properly closed on exit [3c9cfdba]
+        [97853564][347da8e5][dd8d0d89]
+    + Implement pred() and succ() for the Enumeration role [2645a1e9]
+        [8d442a52][8df53f34][43e41ec6][55aa7f28][f925c648][69dae1f3][2ad51a0f]
+    + Added isa method to SubsetHOW [0704cd97]
+ + Build system:
+    + Made t/harness* use 6 TEST_JOBS by default [8019c15b]
+    + Added --ignore-errors option to Configure.pl [0bc1c877][1da075f9]
+    + Fixed `make test` without `make install` first [fb0b3eb5]
+    + Made Configure.pl refuse to work without ExtUtils::Command [3f4a9ffa]
+    + Fixed non-installed gdb/valgrind runners [4e3f0fca]
+ + Efficiency:
+    + Knuth-Morris-Pratt string search has been implemented for string
+        indexing operations (needles between 2 and 8192 in length) [593fa5f8]
+    + 1.5-2x speedup of most string operations involving strands [5ebbc5ba]
+    + 2.5x speedup for eq() for comparing two flat strings (1.7-2x for others)
+    + 9x speedup when indexing with a needle one grapheme in length [8a215876]
+    + Made `Any ~ Str` and `Str ~ Any` about 25% faster [815faa35]
+    + Made index and eqat operations 2x faster [5ebbc5ba]
+    + Made all(@a), none(@a), one(@a) about 9x faster [51c3d86c]
+    + Various improvements to BUILDPLAN and BUILDALLPLAN [7da0c215][0ca5ffa4]
+        [760530a5][80e069a4][2574f883][b706b843][963b28d1][532f7092]
+    + Made object creation 25% faster in some cases [62fd5093]
+ + Internal:
+    + Simplified setting up auto-threading [8a0f6ac1]
+    + Streamlined Junction .defined, .Bool, .ACCEPTS [e8137b45]
+    + Added --no-merge option to t/harness5 to pass through STDERR [4af1d95c]
+        [84b40cf5]
+    + Various improvements to INTERPOLATE [215a5fa7][ea57cbec][c6aacafd]
+        [47439e69][4c25df74][fc632cd8]
+    + Some minor cleanup on R:I.FirstNThenSinkAll [9dbc3c50]
+    + Fixed --ll-exception to give full thread backtrace [0877278e]
+    + Various heap analyzer API changes [bfee5a1e]
+    + Streamlined exit / END phaser handling [1adacc72]
+    + Made junction optimizer only look at candidates [4de858a5]
+    + Assortment of low-level improvements [cbce6721][8a215876]
+        [9b42484a][a4ce97ca]
+
 New in 2017.08:
  + Security:
     + Removed '.' and 'blib' from nqp's default module search paths [7e403724]