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Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v16 | |||
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This is the sixteenth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on | |||
the last Monday of the month. | |||
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You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a | |||
working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable for use with | |||
Mono or Microsoft .NET. If you wish to follow latest developments, | |||
you can obtain the source from [2]; however, you will still need a | |||
binary for bootstrapping, so you gain nothing from a "source is | |||
better" perspective. | |||
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Niecza is a Perl 6 compiler project studying questions about the | |||
efficient implementability of Perl 6 features. It currently targets | |||
the Common Language Runtime; both Mono and Microsoft .NET are known to | |||
work. On Windows, Cygwin is required for source builds only; see the | |||
README for details. | |||
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List of changes | |||
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[Minor changes] | |||
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Improved multi-dispatch failure error messages (Larry Wall). | |||
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Added @foo[1;2;3] multi-indexing syntax (but no real multidimensional | |||
arrays yet), and Zen slices @foo[]. | |||
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Added take-rw and return-rw functions for returning a read-write value. | |||
(This will allow you to futureproof your code against take and return | |||
becoming readonly by default.) | |||
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Containers bound into aggregates like %foo<k> := 1..3 now retain list | |||
nature for iteration. | |||
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Getting involved | |||
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Contact sorear in irc.freenode.net #perl6 or via the sender address of | |||
this mailing. Also check out the TODO file; whether you want to work | |||
on stuff on it, or have cool ideas to add to it, both are good. | |||
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[1] https://github.com/downloads/sorear/niecza/niecza-16.zip | |||
[2] https://github.com/sorear/niecza |