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[announce] try to clarify a few deprecations
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moritz committed Jul 26, 2012
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* 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,
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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
subroutine.
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
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