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Congratulations.
And nice timing. Right before Mozilla gets firefox.com working.
Cheers
Alberto
Nuno 'smash' Carvalho wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.6.3
> "Beautiful Parrot." Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine aimed
> at running all dynamic languages.
>
> Parrot 0.6.3 is available via CPAN (soon), or follow the download
> instructions at http://parrotcode.org/source.html. For those who
> would like to develop on
> Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Subversion on
> the source code repository to get the latest and best Parrot code.
>
> Parrot 0.6.3 News:
> - Specification
> + updated pdd09_gc.pod
> - Languages
> + Cardinal:
> - dramatically improved parsing speed
> - added support for defining and instantiating classes
> - started fleshing out the builtin class hierarchy
> - added support for hashes and arrays
> + Chitchat: added the start of a smalltalk compiler
> + Pheme: updated to match PGE changes
> + Pynie: return statement, other minor updates
> + Rakudo:
> - added working list and hash contexts
> - added 'return' statements
> - added => pair constructor
> - added ?? !! ternary
> - added Range, range operators, Complex
> - added common List, Hash methods
> - refactored base classes
> - added Mutable, Perl6Scalar classes
> - added type-checking, is readonly/rw/copy for parameters
> - added make localtest, docs/spectest-progress.csv
> - fix named unaries
> + Squaak: implement return statement
> + Tcl: updated control flow exceptions to use new builtin types
> - Compilers
> + All tools converted to P6object metamodel
> + PGE:
> - <?foo> is now a zero-width match
> - reduced backtracking to improve parsing speed
> + PCT:
> - added "return" PAST.op node type for subroutine returns
> - added "keyed_int" scoping to PAST::Var
> - fixed calls to closures
> - automatically transcode 7-bit unicode to ascii for faster processing
> + NQP: added "return" statement, ?? !! ternary operator
> - Configuration
> + expanded step gen::opengl
> - Implementation
> + updated function and macro names to match pdd09_gc.pod
> + removed Super PMC
> + add ".namespace []" as alternative to ".namespace"
> + "make codetest" target runs standard coding tests
> - Miscellaneous
> + added P6object class for Perl 6 interfaces to objects in Parrot
> + ported OpenGL/GLU/GLUT bindings to Win32, BSD, and more Mac OS X variants
> + generate OpenGL/GLU/GLUT bindings by parsing system headers
> + new OpenGL example shapes.pir, covering basic OpenGL 1.1 / GLUT 3 APIs
> + new float4.pir structure-packing benchmark
> + reduced memory use for variables
> + improved constant string caching
> + made code g++ and gcc (with optimizations) safe
> + the usual collection of bugfixes and optimizations
>
>
> Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors
> for supporting this project. Our next scheduled release is 15 July 2008.
>
> Enjoy!
> ./smash
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Alberto Simões - Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho
Campus de Gualtar - 4710-057 Braga - Portugal
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