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| Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v11 | ||
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| This is the eleventh release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on | ||
| the last Monday of the month, at least in the US west coast time zone. | ||
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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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| [Major features / Breaking changes] | ||
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| The compile time / runtime metamodel unification mentioned in the v10 | ||
| announce is done now. Real Sub and ClassHOW objects are created at | ||
| compile time and stored in a .ser (serialized data) file alongside the | ||
| .dll. When using modules the .ser file is loaded; .nam files are gone. | ||
| Some operations are faster and others are slower. | ||
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| All non-dotnet backends no longer work and have been removed, since | ||
| niecza now requires much closer integration between the front and back | ||
| ends. Restoring them would not be impossible. | ||
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| BEGIN time code execution is now supported! In particular, a BEGIN in | ||
| a module is run *once*; any objects it creates will be serialized, and | ||
| the BEGIN is not re-run at runtime. It is erroneous to modify objects | ||
| owned by a different module at BEGIN time. | ||
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| [Minor new features] | ||
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| The x*+ syntax is now supported as a synonym of x**, doing possessive | ||
| quantification like Perl 5. | ||
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| "make spectest" now respects TEST_JOBS. (Will Coleda) | ||
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| todo is now supported in tests. | ||
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| Various improvemends to the p5 interop system. (Paweł Murias) | ||
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| CLR interop example improvements: make clock resizable, add notepad, | ||
| tetris, webbrowser. (Martin Berends) | ||
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| Fleshed out TextWriter and open to some semblance of usability. | ||
| Added close, unlink, mkdir. (Solomon Foster) | ||
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| Added .pick and .roll. (Solomon Foster) | ||
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| Added log, log10, exp, cis, polar, gcd, lcm. (Solomon Foster) | ||
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| Handling of variable types that are constrained to Mu but default to | ||
| Any are more consistant. | ||
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| [Selected bug fixes] | ||
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| grep /regex/, @list no longer crashes. | ||
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| " (a source file with an unclosed string) no longer crashes the compiler. | ||
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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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| Future directions | ||
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| In the wake of the /serialize branch merge there will be a lot of | ||
| bugs to fix and documents to update. I am also looking at designing | ||
| a good practical realization of S11 and module packaging. | ||
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| [1] https://github.com/downloads/sorear/niecza/niecza-11.zip | ||
| [2] https://github.com/sorear/niecza |