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More release announcement updates; fix some obsolete text.
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pmichaud committed Aug 31, 2012
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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
The following features have been deprecated or modified from previous
releases due to changes in the Perl 6 specification, and are being removed
or changed as follows:

* Parameters preceded by a | or \ can no longer have a sigil.
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* 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 .

There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
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* non-blocking I/O
* much of Synopsis 9

There is a new online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features
There is an 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.

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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
<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
A draft of a Perl 6 book is available as <docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf>
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,
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