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perl.perl6.announce http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/ ... Copyright 1998-2013 perl.org Mon, 20 May 2013 21:22:03 +0000 ask@perl.org Parrot 5.3.0 "W00tstock Parrot" Released! by Bruce Gray We are stardust. Billion year old carbon. We are golden. Caught in the devil's bargain And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden. (To some semblance of a garden.) -- "Woodstock", by Joni Mitchell On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 5.3.0, also known as "W00tstock Parrot". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages, and currently focusing on Perl 6. Parrot 5.3.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/5.3.0/), or by following the download instructions at http://parrot.org/download. For those who would like to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Git to retrieve the source code to get the latest and best Parrot code. Parrot 5.3.0 News: - Build + Files generated by `make cover` are now correctly cleaned by `make` and ignored by `git`. - Tests + Internal testing of the Configure probe for Fink now works correctly with the --verbose flag. + Tests added for .sort method of ResizableFloatArray and ResizableIntegerArray. [GH #926], [GH #927] + Benchmarks added for .sort methods of various Array objects. [GH #175] + Coverage analysis added for pbc_disassemble. The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are: 79d6f1fe20645b0afbc496cd0d7850a78b8940230e7637c5356d780f5aa1750b parrot-5.3.0.tar.gz 4cff32521c79d8a783ad57d9a13e205ea3c1b1585085e0da80138b58b77d0ed5 parrot-5.3.0.tar.bz2 Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors for supporting this project. Our next scheduled release is 21 May 2013. Enjoy! http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2013/04/msg693.html Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:53:19 +0000 Parrot 5.2.0 "Stuffed Parrot" Released! by Bruce Gray I am not dead yet I can dance and I can sing I am not dead yet I can do the Highland Fling I am not dead yet No need to go to bed No need to call the doctor Cause I'm not yet dead -- Spamalot On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 5.2.0, also known as "Stuffed Parrot". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 5.2.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/5.2.0/), or by following the download instructions at http://parrot.org/download. For those who would like to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Git to retrieve the source code to get the latest and best Parrot code. Parrot 5.2.0 News: - Core + IO now only syncs buffers for the IO types where syncing makes sense. = PIO_VF_SYNC_IO flag added - Build + installable_pdump now has the correct rpath (blib corrected to lib). - Libraries + Tcl/Glob.pir has been removed. (PGE/Glob.pir remains intact) - Ecosystem + All Parrot tarballs are now symlinked to the 'all' directory, regardless of their true homes ('devel' or 'stable'), to better allow for automated downloads. ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/all/ The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are: 1245d11f2b2ea44e6465aff6da5a533324d69b6eb3ddf7d84e81385ea95150ad parrot-5.2.0.tar.gz 0c538d780f9c70c510e142a8a663c30474125c9fcf9fe25d2129e68fc7baec8d parrot-5.2.0.tar.bz2 Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors for supporting this project. Our next scheduled release is 16 Apr 2013. Enjoy! -- Bruce Gray (Util of PerlMonks) http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2013/03/msg692.html Sun, 24 Mar 2013 13:58:55 +0000 Parrot 5.1.0 "Zombie Parrot" Released! by Bruce Gray Flat on the bunk again, he ran for his life. The Parrot stalked him through the grey hours of morning, smoothing its fractal feathers, shuffling itself slowly into clarity as though at the end of a flashy film-dissolve, until at last his mind's eye had to acknowledge a shape, a shape, a wink -- From BLIT, a short story by David Langford http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 5.1.0, also known as "Zombie Parrot". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 5.1.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/supported/5.1.0/), or by following the download instructions at http://parrot.org/download. For those who would like to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Git to retrieve the source code to get the latest and best Parrot code. Parrot 5.1.0 News: - Core + The .sort() method was added to the FixedFloatArray PMC + Improved detection of system memory for machines with >2GB + Improved pbc_to_exe support for spacey paths + Fixed Parrot_io_readall_s allocating too much string space - Build + Fixed generated MANIFEST files to omit $destdir - Documentation - Tests + .readall now checks that prior reads are respected. - Community + Weekly IRC meetings have resumed. #parrotsketch Tuesdays at 1930 UTC The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are: af26c2fcc806505ec516ebb013bdd37b218633f5fe63faaa6b843ffe55e0135e parrot-5.1.0.tar.bz2 2483963c1bec665be772cb40a71fd3d9d2621feca547932475017c81a2f7e49b parrot-5.1.0.tar.gz Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors for supporting this project. Our next scheduled release is 19 Mar 2013. Enjoy! -- Bruce Gray (Util of PerlMonks) http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2013/02/msg691.html Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:36:17 +0000 Parrot 4.11.0 "All together - Happy Birthday Lovebird" Released! by Reini Urban On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 4.11.0, also known as "All together - Happy Birthday Lovebird". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 4.11.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/4.11.0/), or by following the download instructions at http://parrot.org/download. For those who would like to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Git to retrieve the source code to get the latest and best Parrot code. Threads are considered experimental. There are a known GC bugs when running large threads on darwin and sometimes linux. There are no known problems when running large single-threaded programs. Reading from shared variables is transparent, writing must be done via scheduled updater subs on the owner thread. You can use the API without using native OS threads by configuring --without-threads. Parrot 4.11.0 News: - Core + Parrot now supports fast and lightweight OS threads, based on Nat Tucks's initial GSoC work on green threads and then Stefan Seifert's extension to true parallel OS threads as hybrid threads. See http://wknight8111.blogspot.co.at/2010/08/gsoc-threads-chandons-results.html and http://niner.name/Hybrid_Threads_for_the_Parrot_VM.pdf Summary: http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/day-11-parrot-threads/ + New parrot cmdline option --numthreads + Export new dynpmc_class_<ClassName> types [GH #870]. + Changed core_ops library format and ops2c to contain the PBC_COMPAT only, not the parrot version triple. Removed the duplicate PARROT_DYNOP_CORE_INIT cpp definition in include/parrot/oplib/core_ops.h, use only PARROT_CORE_OPLIB_INIT from config.h + Store PBC_MAJOR and PBC_MINOR in the config hash, stored by auto::revision + Added getprotobyname method to the Socket PMC - Documentation + Marked unused API parameters + Install man pages for all binaries - Languages + nqp-rx tests updated from perl6/nqp-rx.git, and enabled to run on make test - Platforms + More compilation fixes on Windows without working mt.exe or ranlib=rem, enable smoking without git binary. - Tools + Re-enabled pbc_dump -h --header-only + Improved pmc2c, added more UNUSED(arg) macros [GH #836]. Parrot is now almost -Wunused-parameters safe. - Tests + failing Pod::Simple pod_todo.t tests are now skipped + added nqp-rx tests + removed duplicate ext/nqp-rx/t/p6regex tests + rewrote and enabled native_pbc tests [GH #394], renamed native_pbc testfiles The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are: 46de72022dfe521fb8c5d95453e1d091d4d20d8f7ca4f2ed0cd1420b682f20dc parrot-4.11.0.tar.gz 0632ad0ca9557df391088bddbbc2608a4503adb5679dcbe62c065a73d4ce49de parrot-4.11.0.tar.bz2 Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors for supporting this project. Our next supported release is 15 January 2013. Enjoy! -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/ http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2012/12/msg690.html Wed, 19 Dec 2012 01:49:52 +0000 Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v24 by Stefan O'Rear Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v24 This is release number 24 of Niecza Perl 6, marking 24 months since the first public release. How time flies. 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 still need a binary for bootstrapping. 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. List of changes [Bug fixes] .classify and .categorize now return hashes. (Solomon Foster) qx// is now sandboxed. (Solomon Foster) [Features] Added special functions gamma, expm1, log1p, erf, lgamma. (Solomon Foster, using library code by John D. Cook) Export $*CUSTOM-LIB for panda's use. (Solomon Foster) Added Parcel.Array and List.Array. (Solomon Foster) Postfix operaters which mimic methods can now be used. (Larry Wall) Added functionality for a "precompiled system modules" folder, eliminating the need for each user to separately compile the setting in a multi-user install. Added line editing to the REPL. Added an install target for *nixes. [Internal] Niecza has been significantly refactored to use a single instance of the kernel during compilation, opening the door to direct object sharing between the compiler and the runtime and significantly simplifying the bootstrap procedure. Getting involved Contact sorear in irc.freenode.net #perl6 or via the sender address of this mailing. [1] https://github.com/downloads/sorear/niecza/niecza-24.zip [2] https://github.com/sorear/niecza http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2012/11/msg689.html Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:18:27 +0000 Parrot 4.10.0 "Red-eared Parakeet" Released by Reini Urban On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 4.10.0, also known as "Red-eared Parakeet". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 4.10.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/4.10.0/), or by following the download instructions at http://parrot.org/download. For those who would like to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Git to retrieve the source code to get the latest and best Parrot code. Parrot 4.10.0 News: - Core + Add PMCNULL check to result_info op + Fixed record separator bug on io handles - Build + Add -fpermissive so that nqp builds under gcc 4.7.2 + Fixed warnings for old ICU 4.4 - Platforms + More VMS fixes, but not yet done - Branches + The threads branch is ready to be merged, but nqp needs some changes, so it will be merged with 4.11.0. - Examples + Parrot mini-web server fixes The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are: 82f38e6e596ab101c52313ad3e3560d2c8a72985362b54d9898619ab17a6f17d parrot-4.10.0.tar.gz 7d6a592c386d25bcee429a269cc571ae81c5c080b15d14a884401a27fe3f5d4b parrot-4.10.0.tar.bz2 Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors for supporting this project. Our next scheduled release is 18 December 2012. The release is a day late. I apologize for the lateness. -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/ http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2012/11/msg688.html Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:27:35 +0000 Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v22 by Stefan O'Rear Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v22 This is the twenty-second release of Niecza Perl 6, scheduled on the last Monday of the month. 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 still need a binary for bootstrapping. 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. List of changes [Bug fixes] Range.roll and Range.pick now properly handle ranges which are finer than the resolution of Num. (Solomon Foster) [New features] Added sub hypot. (Solomon Foster) Added expmod (modular exponentiation) and is-prime for Int types. (Solomon Foster, Larry Wall) Taking logarithms of integers larger than the largest representable "Num" now behaves more intelligently. (Solomon Foster) Allowed infix:<cmp> to examine the contents of Hash objects. (Solomon Foster, Carl Mäsak) [Internal] A project has been started to remove global state to allow multiple interpreters to coexist more easily in a single process, with applications to sandboxing and improving the compiler/runtime relationship. Getting involved Contact sorear in irc.freenode.net #perl6 or via the sender address of this mailing. [1] https://github.com/downloads/sorear/niecza/niecza-22.zip [2] https://github.com/sorear/niecza http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2012/09/msg687.html Tue, 25 Sep 2012 07:56:38 +0000 Parrot 4.8.0 "Spix's Macaw" Released! (*with* the SHAs this time) by Alvis Yardley On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 4.8.0, also known as "Spix's Macaw". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 4.8.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/4.8.0/), or by following the download instructions at http://parrot.org/download. For those who would like to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Git to retrieve the source code to get the latest and best Parrot code. Parrot 4.8.0 News: - Core + Prevent interpreter from dying twice + Complete rewrite of the IO system, including new unified IO PMC semantics. + The Integer and Float PMCs now have a get_pointer vtable which is needed when using NCI to bind to Fortran libraries such as LAPACK - Deprecations + Moved dynpmc/os to pmc os. loadlib 'os' is not needed anymore. - Platforms + Fixed for the FileHandle open method the append mode on Windows. + Fix compilation on Windows without working mt.exe + Detect GNU/Hurd as linux proper. + Fixed broken int3 trap on Solaris with gcc. + Updated the vms port on a YAPC::EU hackathon with vaxman and mvorl. - Tests + Improve testability with valgrind or thread-sanitizer The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are: b6f9a72b8e4b8af4f85b00f565b8c3225ad631a28d5a7b25f2b0e6fd3bcc8aa7 parrot-4.8.0.tar.bz2 e4ffc38e10939e86c73f86781cae7f39e7519477b6aa0a8cda6c93278cdb0f90 parrot-4.8.0.tar.gz Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors for supporting this project. Our next scheduled release is 16 October 2012. Enjoy! -- Alvis P.S. Many thanks to sorear for point this out! http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2012/09/msg686.html Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:09:09 +0000 Parrot 4.8.0 "Spix's Macaw" Released! by Alvis Yardley On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 4.8.0, also known as "Spix's Macaw". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 4.8.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/4.8.0/), or by following the download instructions at http://parrot.org/download. For those who would like to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Git to retrieve the source code to get the latest and best Parrot code. Parrot 4.8.0 News: - Core + Prevent interpreter from dying twice + Complete rewrite of the IO system, including new unified IO PMC semantics. + The Integer and Float PMCs now have a get_pointer vtable which is needed when using NCI to bind to Fortran libraries such as LAPACK - Deprecations + Moved dynpmc/os to pmc os. loadlib 'os' is not needed anymore. - Platforms + Fixed for the FileHandle open method the append mode on Windows. + Fix compilation on Windows without working mt.exe + Detect GNU/Hurd as linux proper. + Fixed broken int3 trap on Solaris with gcc. + Updated the vms port on a YAPC::EU hackathon with vaxman and mvorl. - Tests + Improve testability with valgrind or thread-sanitizer The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are: @add corresponding lines@ Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors for supporting this project. Our next scheduled release is 16 October 2012. Enjoy! -- Alvis http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2012/09/msg685.html Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:07:53 +0000 ANNOUNCE: Niecza Perl 6 v21 by Stefan O'Rear Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v21 This is the twenty-first release of Niecza Perl 6, scheduled on the last Monday of the month. 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 still need a binary for bootstrapping. 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. List of changes [Breaking changes] Conjectural [$foo] syntax has been removed. (Solomon Foster) Niecza now stores precompiled modules in a per-user directory (Local Application Data\NieczaModuleCache or $HOME/.local/share/ NieczaModuleCache) instead of obj/ by default, as a first step towards installability. [Build system] The makefile now works with BSD cp. curl is now supported as an alternative to wget. Parallel make has been fixed. [Bug fixes] #142 4 eqv 4.0, shouldn't (Solomon Foster) #144 Hash.push too restrictive (Solomon Foster) my @foo := [] was not setting flattening on @foo properly. Allow space after sign in character classes like <- [foo]> Fixed once-lazy lists breaking serialization even after reification. [New features] Added basic Buf (encode, decode, length). Added most of Rakudo's INET::Socket::INET, except address queries. A tiny subset of "use lib" is now supported. Added callframe(N) form. Getting involved 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. [1] https://github.com/downloads/sorear/niecza/niecza-21.zip [2] https://github.com/sorear/niecza http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2012/08/msg684.html Mon, 27 Aug 2012 22:54:39 +0000 Parrot 4.7.0 "Hispaniolan" Released by Andrew Whitworth On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 4.7.0, also known as "Hispaniolan". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 4.7.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/4.7.0/), or by following the download instructions at http://parrot.org/download. For those who would like to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Git to retrieve the source code to get the latest and best Parrot code. Parrot 4.7.0 News: - Core + Added .all_tags() and .all_tagged_pmcs() methods to PackfileView PMC + Several build and coding standards fixes The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are: 4360ac3dffafffaa00bce561c1329df8ad134019f76930cf24e7a875a4422a90 parrot-4.7.0.tar.bz2 c0bffd371dea653b9881ab2cc9ae5a57dc9f531dfcda0a604ea693c9d2165619 parrot-4.7.0.tar.gz Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors for supporting this project. Our next scheduled release is 18 September 2012. The release is indeed a day late. I apologize for the unusual lateness. --Andrew Whitworth http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2012/08/msg683.html Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:32:19 +0000 Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v20 by Stefan O'Rear Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v20 This is the twentieth release of Niecza Perl 6, where I pretend I'm on the UTC-36 timezone and thank Solomon Foster for the first release where he did all the real work. non-bootstrap has run into a dead end; I need to regroup and decide the next direction. 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 still need a binary for bootstrapping. 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. List of changes All of the changes below are due to Solomon Faster. [Breaking changes] Cool.bytes (with no encoding specified) is gone. It never made much sense anyway. [Major features] printf and sprintf have been overhauled, in particular with support for floating-point values, big integers, and Rats. Added Unicode-aware case routines, uc, lc, tc, tclc, and tcuc. [Minor features] Added [&func] infix operatorization syntax. ++, --, .pred and .succ now return the correct values for undefined Bool variables. Getting involved 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. [1] https://github.com/downloads/sorear/niecza/niecza-20.zip [2] https://github.com/sorear/niecza http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2012/08/msg682.html Wed, 01 Aug 2012 08:57:16 +0000 4.6.0 Parrot "Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill" Released by Reini Urban Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424565/ "The first half of the documentary film focuses on Mark Bittner's relationship with the Parrots living on the Telegraph Hill in the center of San Francisco and how he came to be their caretakers. He has a name for each one and gives the audience stories of how he's interacted with them. Included in these reminiscences, is general background information on bird life in San Francisco and the various theories on how these South American parrots came to exist in the Bay Area. The second half of Parrots deals with the fate of the birds now that Mark has to vacate his small home for the last three years. Apparently, his care of the birds has attracted world wide attention, especially in Europe. There is never really any tension in the fate of Mark or the parrots since, as Mark points out, the birds are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves. The viewer probably has a little less confidence in Mark though, as he says he has no idea what he will do." - imdb review by kasserine (US) On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 4.6.0, also known as "Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 4.6.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/supported/4.6.0/), or by following the download instructions at http://parrot.org/download. For those who would like to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Git to retrieve the source code to get the latest and best Parrot code. Parrot 4.6.0 News: - Core + Added init_pmc method to PackFileView. - Documentation + Added source lines from 'docs/index/book.json' to 'index.json' to make display of 'Parrot Developer's Guide: PIR (draft)' display more like the other books, e.g., 'PCT Book'. + Removed 'docs/index/book.json' as unnecessary. - Tests - Build + Improve on 'sudo make install' permission errors by using File::Copy::cp. - Community The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are: 31d48e348eab418d5d9d9f9bb24d628763ff90c608d21b1944c227b6938a69d1 parrot-4.6.0.tar.bz2 81b2962a8cfe96946417057073d1216ec0f431b863540fbed97b086109590892 parrot-4.6.0.tar.gz Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors for supporting this project. cPanel sponsors Reini's work for the TPF. Our next scheduled release 4.7.0 is 21 August 2012 by whiteknight, with the planned merge of the branches io_cleanup1, threads and rm_pasm (at least). Enjoy! -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/ http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2012/07/msg681.html Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:40:07 +0000 Rakudo Star release 20120.06 - a useful, usable, "early adopter"distribution of Perl 6 by Moritz Lenz On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the June 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the June 2012 release is available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>. In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language ("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as "Rakudo Perl". This Star release includes release 2012.06 [0] of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.5 of the Parrot Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community. Here are some of the major improvements in this release over the previous distribution release. * Transitive longest-token matching in protoregexes * Longest token matching for alternations * Enhanced list and .map handling, including laziness fixes and performance improvements * Can use an argument list with require * Compile time errors in loaded modules now show a module loading backtrace * String to number conversion now recognizes radix notation * The &push and &unshift functions can now autovivify * Rakudo is now compiled with the same regex engine that user-space regexes use; some parsing bugs are fixed as a result * p6doc is now shipped with Rakudo Star. It is a small collection of user-oriented documentation, along with the `p6doc` script for viewing them. This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error reporting and better failure modes. More exceptions are thrown as typed exceptions, and more meta-model errors have been fixed to properly report line numbers. This release contains an important breaking change to number parsing. Previously, a string such as "foo" would numify to 0. Now this will return a Failure. There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming releases. Some of the not-quite-there features include: * macros * threads and concurrency * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints * interactive readline that understands Unicode * non-blocking I/O * much of Synopsis 9 There is a new online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo Star 2012.06 and other Perl 6 implementations. In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are many that we've missed. Bug reports about missing and broken features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>. 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. The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. [0] https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2012.06 [1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo [2] http://parrot.org/ http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2012/06/msg680.html Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:42:47 +0000 Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v19 by Stefan O'Rear Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v19 This is the nineteenth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on the last Monday of the month. Most of the activity this month has been on the non-bootstrap branch (see below). It has now been two years since the first commit to the Niecza repository. Hard to beleive. 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 still need a binary for bootstrapping. 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. List of changes [Breaking changes] &spew has been renamed &spurt now that a name for it exists in spec. [Minor changes] Added Mu.take. (Solomon Foster) Undefined strings returned from CLR methods now box correctly. Zero-argument [min] and [max] are now supported. Multi-subset and multi-superset operations on Bags are now supported. (Solomon Foster) non-bootstrap Branch This is an effort to move the compiler core away from full Perl 6 and explore consequences of the move, especially in the domains of installability, build system simplification, and metaprogramming support. Getting involved 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. [1] https://github.com/downloads/sorear/niecza/niecza-19.zip [2] https://github.com/sorear/niecza http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2012/06/msg679.html Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:40:08 +0000 4.5.0 Parrot "Buff-faced Pygmy Parrot" Released! by Alvis Yardley In honor of M0: "The tiny bird, which is not much bigger than an adult person's thumb, is smaller than some of the insects with which it shares the forest. On average, buff-faced pygmy parrots (Micropsitta pusio) stand less than 9cm tall and weigh 11.5g (0.41oz)" --BBC Earth News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8236000/8236410.stm) On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 4.5.0, also known as "Buff-faced Pygmy Parrot". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 4.5.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/4.5.0/), or by following the download instructions at http://parrot.org/download. For those who would like to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Git to retrieve the source code to get the latest and best Parrot code. Parrot 4.5.0 News: - Core + Added .write_bytes and .read_bytes methods to FileHandle and Socket PMCs. + Added Parrot_api_set_stdhandle, Parrot_api_new_call_object and Parrot_api_setup_signature functions to the embedding API + Removed the "can" VTABLE - Languages + Winxed snapshot updated to 1.9.1 - New syntax for parameters in multi - New syntax for initalization with new - Cast to var improved - IMCC + Removed .line, .file, setline and setfile directives from IMCC - Documentation + Fixed up Pod in 240 files to pass 't/codingstd/pod_description.t'. - Tests + Added 'docs/pdds' and 'docs/pdds/draft' as files for 'Parrot::Test::Pod.pm' to exclude. - Build + Reduced number of packages under 'lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/'. + Added method-level documentation to several of the remaining packages. + Added 'docs/pdds' and 'docs/pdds/draft' as files for 'Parrot::Test::Pod.pm' to exclude. - Community + M1, a C-like language that targets M0 had a burst of development and now has many working examples such as recursive Fibonacci and recursive factorial : https://github.com/parrot/m1 + Parrot bindings to LAPACK are being worked on as part of Google Summer of Code: https://github.com/leto/parrot-lapack The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are: e675ce8ba85b6172c8364f33946a1cf5c600b0b21666451b755e30073f8e2e8a parrot-4.5.0.tar.gz 74996076eb9dbe0f2442e0ae9c0cb5c3e9d5f49a266368eee01f4ab30c6d2808 parrot-4.5.0.tar.bz2 Reini Urban (or a delegate) will release Parrot 4.6.0, the next scheduled monthly release, on July 17th 2012. Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors for supporting this project. Enjoy! -- Alvis http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2012/06/msg678.html Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:43:50 +0000 Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v18 by Stefan O'Rear Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v18 This is the eighteenth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on the last Monday of the month. 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 still need a binary for bootstrapping. 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. List of changes [Breaking changes] substr now returns a read-only value in accordance with specification changes. To modify the substr return value, use substr-rw (new in this release). Default new() methods, when passed arguments to initialize @.attributes, now treat the argument as a whole array. In other words, (class :: { has @.foo }).new(foo => [1, 2, 3]) no longer results in an additional level of boxing. [Exciting major features] Exceptions and warnings generated within a span of call-less statements are now much more likely to give the correct line number. (Exciting to me!) Many setting operators like + are now multis and can be extended by user code. [Minor changes] Added ms// syntax (Solomon Foster). Added Rat.Rat, Rat.norm (Solomon Foster). Numerous bug fixes. Niecza::Benchmark has been rewritten and is now a bit more robust. [Major internals changes] Containerization of values is no longer mandatory; bare values are now used everywhere read-only Scalars were in v17. In particular, the NewROScalar function has been removed. Getting involved 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. [1] http://host02.appflux.net/niecza/niecza-18.zip [2] https://github.com/sorear/niecza http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2012/05/msg677.html Mon, 28 May 2012 20:33:06 +0000 Rakudo Star 2012.05 released by Moritz Lenz Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6 On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the May 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the May 2012 release is available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>. In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language ("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as "Rakudo Perl". This Star release includes release 2012.05 [0] of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.4 of the Parrot Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community. Here are some of the major improvements in this release over the previous distribution release. * -I and -M command-line options * support for non-Int enums * 'use' now accepts positional arguments and is able to import by tag name * 'import' now works * basic support for Version literals * %*ENV now propagates into subprocesses * basic implementation of pack and unpack * fff flip-flop operator is now implemented, ff has been improved * various new regex features and improvements Rakudo now also includes the lib.pm module. This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error reporting and better failure modes. More exceptions are thrown as typed exceptions. There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming releases. Some of the not-quite-there features include: * macros * threads and concurrency * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints * interactive readline that understands Unicode * non-blocking I/O * much of Synopsis 9 There is a new online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo Star 2012.05 and other Perl 6 implementations. In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are many that we've missed. Bug reports about missing and broken features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>. 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. The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. [0] https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2012.05 [1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo [2] http://parrot.org/ http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2012/05/msg676.html Fri, 25 May 2012 00:45:56 +0000 Parrot 4.4.0 "Banana Fanna Fo Ferret" Released! by Andrew Whitworth Its existence guarantees nothing in itself, and the catalytic or Promethean moment only occurs when one individual is prepared to cease being the passive listener to such a voice and to become instead is spokesman, or representative. But it's important to remember the many dreary years when the prospect of victory appeared quite unattainable. On every day of those years, the "as if" pose had to be kept up, until its cumulative effect could be felt. -- Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce the 4.4.0 release of Parrot "Banana Fanna Fo Ferret". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 4.4.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/stable/4.4.0/), or by following the download instructions at http://parrot.org/download. For those who would like to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Git to retrieve the source code to get the latest and best Parrot code. Parrot 4.4.0 News: - Core + Most internal calls to libc exit(x) have been replaced with Parrot_x_* API calls or PARROT_FORCE_EXIT - Documentation + 'pdd31_hll.pod' made stable in 'docs/pdds/'. + Updated main 'README' to 'README.pod' + Updated various dependencies, e.g., 'lib/Parrot/Distribution.pm'. + Updated all 'README' files to 'README.pod' files. + Added 'README.pod' files to top-level directories. - Tests + Update various tests to pull from new 'README.pod' + Updated 't/tools/install/02-install_files.t' to pull from new 'README.pod' - Community - Platforms - Tools + pbc_merge has been fixed to deduplicate constant strings and merge annotations segments The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are: 348ce13fc136afc74a7b50b094f64d8cb00f83f0cd3d59acc6fa4e63c824fa4d parrot-4.4.0.tar.bz2 02495c0d11d3977a615bb76d3219f12bc6543b8cf12c596dfd5c35e98d95218a parrot-4.4.0.tar.gz Alvis Yardley (or a delegate) will release Parrot 4.5.0, the next scheduled monthly release, on June 16th 2012. Subsequent release managers are to be announced. A special thanks to our donors, contributors and volunteers for making this release possible. Enjoy! --Andrew Whitworth http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2012/05/msg675.html Tue, 15 May 2012 20:25:03 +0000 Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v17 by Carl Mäsak Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v17 This is the seventeenth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on the last Monday of the month. 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 still need a binary for bootstrapping. 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. List of changes [Minor changes] The .Str methods of Set, KeySet, Bag, and KeyBag now just list the elements (Solomon Foster). Out-of-range digits in a radix conversion now warn appropriately (Solomon Foster). The [Z] operator now doesn't hang on empty inputs (Stefan O'Rear). Cool.eval added (Solomon Foster). [Major changes] List comprehension syntax like ($_*$_ for 0..9) works now (Stefan O'Rear). 'no strict' (Stefan O'Rear). Getting involved Contact sorear in irc.freenode.net #perl6 or via the stefanor@cox.net. 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. [1] https://github.com/downloads/sorear/niecza/niecza-17.zip [2] https://github.com/sorear/niecza http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2012/04/msg674.html Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:22:40 +0000 Announce: Rakudo Star 2012.04 - a useful, usable, "early adopter"distribution of Perl 6 by Moritz Lenz On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the February 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the February 2012 release is available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>. In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language ("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as "Rakudo Perl". This Star release includes release 2012.04.1 [0] of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.3 of the Parrot Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community. Here are some of the major improvements in this release over the previous distribution release. * much improved startup time * much more robust module precompilation * autovivification for arrays and hashes is implemented again * many phasers like PRE, POST and REDO are now implemented * improved support for calling C functions and modelling structs and arraysvia NativeCall.pm6 * now includes modules URI, LWP::Simple, jsonrpc and Bailador (a Perl 6 port of Dancer) This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error reporting and better failure modes. Many more exceptions are thrown as typed exceptions. Some notable incompatible changes from the previous release include * the 'lib' directory is not included in the default module search path anymore. You can manipulate the search path with the PERL6LIB environment variable * 'defined' used to be a prefix operator, and is now a regular subroutine. This means you must updated code that relies 'defined' taking only one argument. For example 'defined $x ?? $a !! $b' should be written as '$x.defined ?? $a !! $b' or 'defined($x) ?? $a !! $b'. There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming releases. Some of the not-quite-there features include: * pack and unpack * macros * threads and concurrency * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints * interactive readline that understands Unicode * non-blocking I/O * much of Synopsis 9 There is a new online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo Star 2012.04 and other Perl 6 implementations. In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are many that we've missed. Bug reports about missing and broken features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>. 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. The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. [0] https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2012.04.1 [1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo [2] http://parrot.org/ http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2012/04/msg673.html Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:59:03 +0000 Announce: Perlito version 9; Perl5 and Perl6 compilers by Flavio S. Glock Perlito is a compiler collection that contains both a Perl 5 compiler (perlito5) and a Perl 6 compiler (perlito6): - Perl5 to Javascript (browser and node.js) - Perl6 to Javascript (browser and v8 command-line) - Perl6 to Perl5 (v6.pm, runs in perl 5.8 and up) - Perl6 to Python (Python 2.6 and 2.7) Run Perlito online, in the browser: http://perlcabal.org/~fglock/perlito5.html http://perlcabal.org/~fglock/perlito6.html From CPAN (perlito6 only): http://search.cpan.org/dist/v6/lib/v6.pm $ cpan v6 Perlito is a work in progress. For the source code, to-do list, and bugs: http://github.com/fglock/Perlito - Flavio S. Glock (fglock) http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2012/04/msg672.html Wed, 11 Apr 2012 05:55:46 +0000 Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v16 by Stefan O'Rear Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v16 This is the sixteenth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on the last Monday of the month. 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. 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. List of changes [Minor changes] Improved multi-dispatch failure error messages (Larry Wall). Added @foo[1;2;3] multi-indexing syntax (but no real multidimensional arrays yet), and Zen slices @foo[]. 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.) Containers bound into aggregates like %foo<k> := 1..3 now retain list nature for iteration. Getting involved 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. [1] https://github.com/downloads/sorear/niecza/niecza-16.zip [2] https://github.com/sorear/niecza http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2012/03/msg671.html Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:21:55 +0000 Parrot 4.2.0 "Ornithopter" Released! by Jonathan "Duke" Leto "Technology, in common with many other activities, tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. Capital investment follows this rule, since people generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice." -- Assessment of Ix, Bene Gesserit Archives (Heretics of Dune) On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 4.2.0, also known as "Ornithopter". Parrot (http://parrot.org) is a virtual machine designed to run all dynamic languages. Parrot 4.2.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/4.2.0/), or by following the download instructions at http://parrot.org/download. For those who would like to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Git to retrieve the source code to get the latest and best Parrot code. Parrot 4.2.0 News: - API Changes + The signature of getprop was changed from (PMC,String,PMC) to (PMC, PMC,String) for consistency - Core + Parrot Calling Conventions (pcc) now reuses Continuation PMCs internally, which reduces GC work by 25% and improves the fib.pir benchmark by 6% + Winxed snapshot updated to 1.6.devel 44a04cfa7b + Improved the detection of Clang-ish compilers during configuration + Fixed a possible segfault bug when reading packfiles with no constants or main_sub + By default, Parrot has now elevated these GCC warnings to errors during compile time: implicit-function-declaration, undef, missing-braces, nested externs, old-style-definition, strict-prototypes, + The OS Dynamic PMC now has separate functions to unlink a file and remove an empty directory (rmdir) + Fix building on Cygwin due to an improperly named DLL file + Various small bug fixes pointed out by static and dynamic analysis tools - Branches + Work on M0 continues now in the m0 branch, which contains both implementations (currently C and Perl) and specification. + Good progress has been made on the threads branch which builds on the green_threads branch. This gets Parrot much closer to being able to utilize multiple CPU cores seemlessly. More details at http://niner.name/Hybrid_Threads_for_the_Parrot_VM.pdf - Documentation + New release manager documentation for parrot.github.com : http://git.io/parrot-github-guide - Community + Parrot was accepted to Google Summer of Code 2012! Ideas Page: http://git.io/parrot-gsoc-2012 The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are: a960c89f94099c9643c5623263bdb7fa9e97effb889c975382bbf9c0251186b4 parrot-4.2.0.tar.bz2 69ee93d9f81babcff67b747cc614358958a32f274e407b65771ca5a056d4c3d4 parrot-4.2.0.tar.gz Many thanks to all Parrot contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors for supporting this project. This release is comprised of 136 commits on the master branch since 4.1.0, with contributions from : Andy Lester, Vasily Chekalkin, Jonathan "Duke" Leto, jkeenan, Alvis Yardley Whiteknight, Brian Gernhardt, Gerhard R, NotFound, Francois Perrad, Moritz Lenz and luben. Our next scheduled release is 17 April 2012. Enjoy! -- Jonathan "Duke" Leto <jonathan@leto.net> Leto Labs LLC 209.691.DUKE // http://labs.leto.net NOTE: Personal email is only checked twice a day at 10am/2pm PST, please call/text for time-sensitive matters. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2012/03/msg670.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:11:25 +0000 Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v15 by Stefan O'Rear Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v15 This is the fifteenth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on the last Monday of the month. No, it's not dead. Niecza now passes more spectests than Rakudo, but that is not an entirely fair comparison, and we have the feature matrix now which is much more useful for such comparisons. [3] 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. 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. List of changes [Major changes] The Unicode character database bundled with Niecza has been updated to version 6.1.0. [Minor changes] Constant folding which fails at compile time, since it cannot succeed, now generates a compile-time warning. (idea from Darren Duncan) Perl 5 interoperability has made progress. (Paweł Murias) Proxy has been added. (No real new functionality, just putting a specced API on an existing feature) Unused-variable warnings are now suppressed in the REPL. Added KeySet, KeyBag; substantially improved Set and Bag. (Solomon Foster) Set operators (both Texas and Unicode) are now available; it is now possible to define operators in the setting beyond those defined in the grammar. Added ability to define custom iffy and diffy operators. Added $.foo(42) syntax meaning $(self.foo(42)). @*INC internals have changed again. Added Range.pick, Range.roll, &rmdir, &rungather. (Solomon Foster) Added &run (uses GLib if available for more robust argument passing). (Solomon Foster) Compiler memory usage has been substantially optimized, approximately 40% less used for CORE, with a small accompanying size improvement. Getting involved 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. [1] https://github.com/downloads/sorear/niecza/niecza-15.zip [2] https://github.com/sorear/niecza [3] http://perl6.org/compilers/features http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2012/02/msg669.html Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:58:33 +0000 Parrot 4.1.0 "Black-headed Parrot" Released by Alvis Yardley On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 4.1.0, also known as "Black-headed Parrot". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 4.1.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/4.1.0/), or by following the download instructions at http://parrot.org/download. For those who would like to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Git to retrieve the source code to get the latest and best Parrot code. Parrot 4.1.0 News: - Core + Shared libraries and installable binaries are now stripped if built with --optimize on Cygwin, which greatly reduces their size on disk + New experimental PCC-related ops added to core. - Documentation + Revised 'docs/project/release_manager_guide.pod' - Tests + Parrot now uses Travis CI http://travis-ci.org + Parrot Continuous Integration (CI) with Travis CI means every commit of Parrot is now compiled and tested on gcc, g++ and clang with various Configure.pl options. + CI Notifications are sent to parrot-dev, the #parrot IRC channel and Smolder + Cardinal and Rakudo spec tests also on Travis CI The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are: 6d277862cfddc3e13f53684315f1ed3c76a053c01200652436b548be0964cf1d parrot-4.1.0.tar.gz 826465f3b7045cf81768029b1f18a4fa05259b7268c98c9c0436bd77c74785ec parrot-4.1.0.tar.bz2 Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors for supporting this project. Our next scheduled release is 20 March 2012. Enjoy! -- Alvis http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2012/02/msg668.html Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:29:07 +0000 Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v14 by Stefan O'Rear Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v14 This is the fourteenth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on the last Monday of the month. I'm on winter break now, which means lots of time for improvements. Muahahaha. This month hasn't seen much of a focus. With this release, Niecza now passes a similar number of spectests as Rakudo. (Note that they are not the same tests, and as such the test counts are not completely comparable.) Solomon Foster has begun efforts to port panda to niecza, with the goal of designing a multi-implementation ecosystem. 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. 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. List of changes [Breaking changes] Multiple dispatch has been changed to reject all cases of ambiguity using an explicit list of conflictors; some ambiguous cases were formerly accepted. List iteration has been modified to throw an exception when the list generator tries to access the unreified part of the list. The previous code exhibited undefined behavior that some code actually relied on. Parameters like @foo and %foo now insist that their arguments be Positional and Associative respectively. Rat and Complex stringification has been substantially changed. Niecza now enforces "trusts". &nextwith and CallFrame.args now conspire to hide the invocant parameter. If you are calling nextwith directly, you no longer need to - and must no longer - pass a self argument. |$foo capture parameters now capture the logical "current" capture, rather than the "initial" capture. In particular, 'method (|$foo)' no longer results in $foo containing self. [Major features] END blocks are now suppported. The subroutine entry process has been significantly modified to allow signatures to reference variables and anonymous code blocks. Roles have been overhauled to much more closely match the Rakudo nom behavior. Importantly, roles now have a $?CLASS parameter, and role blocks are not run until that is available. Role composition at compile time is now supported, as is role summation, attributes in roles, role conflict detection, type checking against roles, etc. &infix:<does> and &infix:<but> now support much more of specced behaviors. Accompanying that, the old tag and mixin classes CommonEnum, IntBasedEnum, StrBasedEnum, Callable, Positional, Associative, Numeric, and Real have been converted into roles. Major signature improvements: Added support for sub-signatures, where blocks, proper MMD with subtypes, values used as types. Parameter and Signature objects are now reified into Perl 6 space and support a subset of the Rakudo nom introspection API. Niecza now supports constant folding! If you mark a sub 'is pure' and call it with sufficiently constant arguments, it will be replaced at compile time with the result of the call, provided said call does not throw an exception. What constitutes "sufficiently constant" is not documented, poorly defined, and subject to change. Niecza now keeps attributes from different classes in different namespaces, so you can have $!x in both a parent and a child class without issues. Additionally, the sigil is part of the name, so you can now have both $!x and @!x. val() is now supported, and is used automatically on <> lists. MAIN is now supported. STD-imported syntax changes: \foo and |foo parameters no longer require a sigil. my \foo = ... works to declare a "raw" variable. Initializer assignment now binds tightly to the declarator, so that e.g. (5 + my $x = 3) does something more useful. .WHICH has been added, and === does the correct thing with value types now. Perl 5 interop improvements: can now be used from any directory and builds much more robustly. Also supports more pass and return cases. (Paweł Murias) [Minor features] No more pseudo-evaluators - all constructs which contain code that logically is run at BEGIN time to produce a value, is now actually run rather than attempting a static evaluation. Binding to attributes is now supported. Class attribute forms such as my $.foo, and the aliasing form has $foo, are now supported. Within a named 'anon sub', the name is visible, allowing for nicer recursion. * now properly ignores assignments. $obj.Foo::bar, $obj.::("Foo::bar"), and /<::("Foo::bar")>/ are now accepted. You can now set 'is iffy' and 'is diffy' for fully custom operators. Type adverbs :_ :U :D :T are now accepted. Signatures like (Int, Int) are now allowed. Phaser handling has been improved, and support added for CHECK. Aliasing forms like <foo=$bar> are now allowed. Version information is now embedded into the build, allowing for --version and $?PERL support. Printing of unhandled exceptions uses .gist. Multiple dispatch now handles junctions. Exporting multisubs from modules now approximately works. Added ".Bridge" support. (Solomon Foster) Attribute-binding parameters (:$!foo) now implemented. :16() syntax is now supported. Defaults and type constraints that are constants are now saved as such, avoiding an unneeded block. Str.perl now escapes special characters. CLR interop now supports calls to shadowed and hidden methods, like $obj.CLR::System::IDisposable.Dispose(). Note that this can NOT be used to call overriden methods (callvirt semantics are used). LTM processing ignores arguments and dispatchers forward the arguments to multi regexes. infix:<cmp> supports pairs, ±Inf (Solomon Foster) Hash.perl sorts the output to be slightly more useful. New setting things: Cool.polar, Cool.roots, &roots, Array.delete, &infix:<minmax>, &rotate, CommonEnum.pick, CommonEnum.roll, Any.min, Any.max, Any.minmax, Str.trans, &elems, Any.reduce, &reduce, &shell, &categorize, &cwd, &chdir, $*CWD, &printf, IO.copy, IO.chmod (Solomon Foster) Hash.push (Moritz Lenz) Int.base, Array.splice, &splice (Will Coleda) Set, Bag (Larry Wall, Solomon Foster) &prefix:<sleep>, Mu.clone, &undefine, $*OS, Order, $*OUT, $*ERR split and comb now support limits of Whatever (Solomon Foster) Range coerces values to numbers according to spec (Solomon Foster) &sort accepts a Callable first argument (Solomon Foster) Added limit to &lines, :r and :rw to &open (Solomon Foster) min and max support arbitrarily many arguments (Solomon Foster) Changed sleep to return a value (Will Coleda) [Other] Daniel Ruoso is attempting an implementation of concurrent feeds. Getting involved 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. Future directions Next month is likely to see fewer tuits in general. The only concrete plan I have is to continue with 6model convergence, hopefully reaching a point where user-defined metaclasses are possible. [1] https://github.com/downloads/sorear/niecza/niecza-14.zip [2] https://github.com/sorear/niecza http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2012/01/msg667.html Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:00:51 +0000 Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v13 by Stefan O'Rear Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v13 This is the thirteenth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on the last Monday of the month. I'm on winter break now, which means lots of time for improvements. Muahahaha. A large portion of the improvements have been in regular expression support. Will Coleda and Solomon Foster are working on fudging spectests so they run on Niecza; between that and actual improvements, we've gained 5000+ working spectests since the last release. See [4] for a dramatic visual. 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. 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. List of changes [Breaking changes] / <{ foo }> / is no longer accepted as a synonym for / <?{ foo }> /. $0 is no longer allowed to mean $/ when there is no capture zero. $/.ast no longer defaults to ~$/. Use $() if you want that. [Major features] New-style character class expressions like <:Uppercase & :Greek> are now supported. Unicode property access is now supported! In addition to the use in regexes, there is also a minimal Niecza::UCD module which allows querying the properties of characters. All non-Unihan properties defined in Unicode 6.0.0 are available. Runtime number parsing has been radically extended and now supports the full gamut of Perl 6 number syntaxes. [Minor features] Supplementary characters are now generally supported, though StrPos-type counting for chars, substr, etc is still in UTF-16 code units. codes is now available, for when you need to actually count code points (be aware that it is O(n)). The regex infix operators & and && are now supported (currently treated as synonyms, but don't rely on this). &pow is a little bit smarter and needlessly returns NaN in fewer cases (Solomon Foster, Stefan O'Rear). Imported a few tweaks from STD, including a better message for say$_. \h \v \s \w and \d now use the recommended UTS18[3] definitions. \n, $$, and ^^ now match any vertical whitespace, including CRLF as a single unit. % is now supported for all quantifiers and %% is available too. $() @() %() are now supported. /$var/ now allows $var to be a Regex. Likewise /<$var>/, /@var/, and /<@var>/ have been added. / <{...}> / now does the right thing. The implementation of $<foo>=[...] has been considerably simplified and depessimized. / <.$foo> / assertion syntax is now supported. / <foo> / will now call a lexical "my regex foo" if possible. To minimize potential accidents, this applies ONLY to regexes, tokens, and rules; despite using the same namespace, a "my sub foo" will not be called. / <&foo(...)> / now allows arguments. @<foo> now correctly contextualizes. Nontrivial regex protos, like "proto regex foo { "bar" {*} }", are now implemented. <( and )> are now supported. Added Match methods: kv, keys, values, caps, chunks, prematch, postmatch. Added \c[] syntax in strings and regexes. Rat and FatRat now stringify as fractions. Inf now stringifies as "Inf" rather than leaking C# Infinity. Added predefined quasi-property rules like <alnum>. Added Niecza::Benchmark, providing the barest minimum of functionality like Perl 5's "Benchmark". Inf, NaN correctly handled in rounding, Cool.truncate, &kv, Pair.invert, &srand, allow :x(*) in subst, .chr, .ord, .chrs, .ords, &chrs, &ords, trim methods, &roll, .roll(*), end, min, max, minmax (Solomon Foster) Added .pick(*), corrected Str and Numeric for Range (Will Coleda) classify (Moritz Lenz) [Selected bug fixes] Threads.pm6 is working again, now with exception-safe locking. [Other] There is now documentation on how to prepare releases. Getting involved 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. Future directions My current priorities are: 1. Make regexes much more feature-complete, including general Unicode properties and grapheme mode 2. Prototype the debugger 3. 6model convergence work, including roles/native types 4. Figure out how modules and S11 stuff should work in Niecza. Do it. [1] https://github.com/downloads/sorear/niecza/niecza-13.zip [2] https://github.com/sorear/niecza [3] http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/ [4] https://github.com/flussence/specgraphs/raw/master/impls.png http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2011/12/msg666.html Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:55:30 +0000 Announce: Perlito version 8; Perl5 and Perl6 compilers by Flavio S. Glock Perlito is a compiler collection that contains both a Perl 5 compiler (perlito5) and a Perl 6 compiler (perlito6). The following backends are supported: - Perl5 in Javascript (browser and command-line) - Perl6 in Javascript (browser and command-line) - Perl6 in Perl5 (v6.pm, runs in perl 5.8 and up) - Perl6 in Python (Python 2.6 and 2.7) There are also many experimental backends. Web Run Perlito online, in the browser: http://perlcabal.org/~fglock/perlito5.html http://perlcabal.org/~fglock/perlito6.html From CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/dist/v6/lib/v6.pm $ cpan v6 Perlito is a work in progress. For the source code, to-do list, and bugs: http://github.com/fglock/Perlito - Flávio S. Glock (fglock) http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2011/12/msg665.html Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:26:26 +0000 Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v12 by Stefan O'Rear Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v12 This is the twelth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on the last Monday of the month. I've not had very much time for Niecza this month. This release marks one year since the first public release, and about a year and a half since the project began. It's hard to believe I've been at it this long. 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. 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. List of changes [Minor features] :BASE<DIGITS> literals are now supported. (Solomon Foster) [Bug fixes] sqrt(-1) is NaN, complex math is strictly opt-in (#64). Undefined values can be passed correctly to CLR interop (#66). -I is now mentioned by --help (#52). Constants, including 'our constant's, are now truly immutable (#46). $@ and $^X now properly handled as the last characters in the file (#63). Left side of xx is now autothunkified so [] xx 4 works correctly (#70). [Other] The internals documentation has been largely rewritten to match the refactor in v11. Added a copy of Martin Berends' London Perl Workshop slides. Getting involved 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. Future directions My current priorities are: 1. Make regexes much more feature-complete, including general Unicode properties and grapheme mode 2. Prototype the debugger 3. 6model convergence work, including roles/native types 4. Figure out how modules and S11 stuff should work in Niecza. Do it. [1] https://github.com/downloads/sorear/niecza/niecza-12.zip [2] https://github.com/sorear/niecza http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2011/11/msg664.html Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:56:52 +0000 Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v11 by Stefan O'Rear Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v11 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. 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. 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. List of changes [Major features / Breaking changes] 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. 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. 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. [Minor new features] The x*+ syntax is now supported as a synonym of x**, doing possessive quantification like Perl 5. "make spectest" now respects TEST_JOBS. (Will Coleda) todo is now supported in tests. Various improvemends to the p5 interop system. (Paweł Murias) CLR interop example improvements: make clock resizable, add notepad, tetris, webbrowser. (Martin Berends) Fleshed out TextWriter and open to some semblance of usability. Added close, unlink, mkdir. (Solomon Foster) Added .pick and .roll. (Solomon Foster) Added log, log10, exp, cis, polar, gcd, lcm. (Solomon Foster) Handling of variable types that are constrained to Mu but default to Any are more consistant. [Selected bug fixes] grep /regex/, @list no longer crashes. " (a source file with an unclosed string) no longer crashes the compiler. Getting involved 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. Future directions 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. [1] https://github.com/downloads/sorear/niecza/niecza-11.zip [2] https://github.com/sorear/niecza http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2011/11/msg663.html Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:04:38 +0000 Parrot 3.9.0 "Archaeopteryx" Released by Jonathan "Duke" Leto On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 3.9.0 "Archaeopteryx". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 3.9.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/supported/3.9.0/), or by following the download instructions at http://parrot.org/download. For those who would like to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Git to retrieve the source code to get the latest and best Parrot code. Parrot 3.9.0 News: - Core + The whiteknight/kill_threads branch was merged, which removes the old and broken thread/concurrency implementation. Better and more flexible concurrency primitives are currently being worked on. This also involved removing some of the last vestiges of assembly code from Parrot as well as removing the share and share_ro vtables. + random_lib.pir was removed, since better alternatives already exist + The freeze and thaw vtables were removed from Default PMC, because they weren't useful and caused hard-to-find bugs. + A new subroutine profiling runcore was added. It can be enabled with the command-line argument of -R subprof . The resulting data can be analyzed with kcachegrind. + Added get_string VTABLE to FixedIntegerArray and FixedFloatArray PMCs + The update() method was added to the Hash PMC, which updates one Hash with the contents of another. This speeds up rakudo/nqp startup time. - Languages + Winxed - Updated snapshot to version 1.3.0 - Added the builtin sleep - Modifier 'multi' allows some more multi functionality - Community + New repo for the Parrot Alternate Compiler Toolkit, a re-implementation of PCT in Winxed: https://github.com/parrot/PACT - Documentation + We are in the process to migrating our Trac wiki at http://trac.parrot.org/ to Github at https://github.com/parrot/parrot/wiki + Packfile PMC documentation was updated - Tests + Select PMC tests improved to pass on non-Linuxy platforms The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are: 923b5ef403c26dd94c04127940659aea94516f79243a80de65fbababff44bfad parrot-3.9.0.tar.bz2 568bfffad0bc7595164f342cd39c33ac967286423844491e85a8f9767f15871c parrot-3.9.0.tar.gz Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible. This release comprises 182 commits by 17 authors on the master branch since the previous release: Michael Schroeder, Whiteknight, soh_cah_toa, Jonathan "Duke" Leto, Brian Gernhardt, Andy Lester, Christoph Otto, Peter Lobsinger, jkeenan, NotFound, Jimmy Zhuo, Stefan Seifert, Andrew Whitworth, Francois Perrad, Moritz Lenz, Tadeusz Sośnierz, gerd Our next scheduled release is 15 November 2011. Enjoy and may the force be with you! Duke -- Jonathan "Duke" Leto <jonathan@leto.net> Leto Labs LLC 209.691.DUKE // http://labs.leto.net NOTE: Personal email is only checked twice a day at 10am/2pm PST, please call/text for time-sensitive matters. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2011/10/msg662.html Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:19:18 +0000 Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v10 by Stefan O'Rear Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v10 This is the tenth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on the last Monday of the month. 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. 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. List of changes [Major features] CLR interoperation is now fairly well supported! You can create objects, call methods, get and set fields and properties, create delegates, etc from Perl 6 code. See examples/ for usage ideas. (Examples by Martin Berends) The Mono.Posix dependency has been relaxed from load time to run time, meaning .NET support is back if you don't use file tests. [Minor new features] \qq[] syntax is now implemented. qp|| now returns a path object. New Test.pm6 methods succeeds_ok and fails_ok (and eval_ variants) to catch warnings. (Design by flussence) @foo? and %foo? in signatures are now correctly supported. Many more trig functions now implemented. (Solomon Foster) Standard grammar has been updated, in particular bringing the new concept of regex separators; x ** y is now spelled x+ % y. Do not expect other forms of % and %% to work just yet. [Selected bug fixes] sqrt now returns the correct value for arguments with a negative imaginary part. Also sqrt(0) returns Num not Complex now. [Other] docs/compiler.pod is more current. (Martin Berends) Prototyping has begun on Perl 5 interoperation. (Paweł Murias) Getting involved 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. Future directions I have an active branch (started this month) to unify compile-time and run-time metamodel representations, using serialization to bridge the gap. It doesn't work yet, but when it does it will enable many improvements, most importantly real support for BEGIN and roles. [1] https://github.com/downloads/sorear/niecza/niecza-10.zip [2] https://github.com/sorear/niecza http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2011/09/msg661.html Tue, 27 Sep 2011 06:19:12 +0000 Parrot 3.8.0 "Magrathea" Released by Kevin Polulak On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 3.8.0, also known as "Magrathea". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 3.8.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site ( ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/3.8.0/), or by following the download instructions at http://parrot.org/download. For those who would like to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Git to retrieve the source code to get the latest and best Parrot code. Parrot 3.8.0 News: - Core + New tools/release/auto_release.pl script automates most of release - Languages + Winxed - Updated snapshot to version 1.2.0 - allowtailcall modifier in try --debug command-line option, __DEBUG__ predefined constant and __ASSERT__ builtin - namespace, class, and ~ (bitwise not) operators - Implicit nested namespace in namespace and class declarations - -X command-line arg - Documentation + Improved release manager guide - Tests + New Makefile target "resubmit_smolder" to resubmit test results + New Makefile target "all_hll_test" runs the test suite of all HLLs and libraries known to work on Parrot + New Makefile target "interop_tests" run language interoperability tests, which runs as part of the normal "make test" as well The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are: - f26d9c1a5d7723b1e778394f87f8bb993e188fb05a719a78eb0204612329cd75 parrot-3.8.0.tar.bz2 - ae10e52eaf150870949aa51c7588e3a09f8f0588c9e0a7a76c2201672b7c5c7a parrot-3.8.0.tar.gz Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors for supporting this project. Our next scheduled release is 18 October 2011. Enjoy! Excerpt from *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*, page 634784, section 5a. Entry: *Magrathea* *Far back in the mists of ancient time, in the great and glorious days of the former Galactic Empire, life was wild, rich and largely tax free. Mighty starships plied their way between exotic suns, seeking adventure and reward among the farthest reaches of Galactic space. In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before – and thus was the Empire forged.* * Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor – at least no one worth speaking of. And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on. None of them was entirely satisfactory: either the climate wasn't quite right in the later part of the afternoon, or the day was half an hour too long, or the sea was exactly the wrong shade of pink. And thus were created the conditions for a staggering new form of specialist industry; custom-made luxury planet building. The home of this industry was the planet Magrathea, where hyperspatial engineers sucked matter through white holes in space to form it into dream planets – gold planets, platinum planets, soft rubber planets with lots of earthquakes – all lovingly made to meet the exacting standards that the Galaxy's richest men naturally came to expect. But so successful was this venture that Magrathea itself soon became the richest planet of all time and the rest of the Galaxy was reduced to abject poverty. And so the system broke down, the Empire collapsed, and a long sullen silence settled over a billion hungry worlds, disturbed only by the pen scratchings of scholars as they labored into the night over smug little treatises on the value of a planned political economy. Magrathea itself disappeared and its memory soon passed into the obscurity of legend. * *In these enlightened days, of course, no one believes a word of it.* -- - Kevin Polulak (soh_cah_toa) http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2011/09/msg660.html Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:07:34 +0000 Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v9 by Stefan O'Rear Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v9 This is the ninth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on the last Monday of the month. 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. 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. Niecza is a Perl 6 compiler project studying questions about the efficient implementability of Perl 6 features. It currently targets the Mono implementaton of the Common Language Runtime. List of changes [Breaking changes] Niecza v9 no longer supports .NET. Niecza v9 has Mono-specific code for performing file access tests. Implementation of runtime probing has been deferred until demand arises. [Major features] Niecza now supports the $::("foo") indirect name access syntax, including indirect access to pseudopackages such as CALLER. Trailing double colons on package names are now parsed, allowing for working Foo::<$bar> syntax. Pseudo-packages (CALLER, OUTER, etc) are now supported. The new gist method is used to render say output one argument at a time, and no longer has the effect of joining lists without spaces. Nil is now supported according to spec. It is an undefined value, and is treated as the lack of an argument by the binder. Perl 6 subroutine-scope phasers are now implemented: LEAVE, ENTER, UNDO, KEEP, TEMP, PRE, POST. Class-level design-by-contract is still NYI. CATCH and CONTROL are now implemented. [Minor new features] Name handling is more uniform and corner cases such as class :: is Str now work. "is dynamic" is now parsed and ignored on variables. Exception handling through nested runloops is now more transparent; control exceptions in particular now work properly. File access tests (rwxoRWXO) are now supported. (Mathew Wilson) Regex modifiers :nth :x :continue :pos are now supported. Added &dir, Pair::ACCEPTS. Added sprintf (Mathew Wilson and Martin Berends). General cases of the temp and let pseudo-declarators are now implemented. Warnings are now implemented as control exceptions and can be caught using CONTROL. [Selected bug fixes] % now handles signs correctly. (Larry Wall) [Other] The binary distribution has been slightly simplified to reduce potential confusion. Getting involved 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. Future directions The main shiny thing I want to chase next month is asynchronous I/O and networking. Niecza's poor startup speed makes long-running servers an attractive niche to target. [1] https://github.com/downloads/sorear/niecza/niecza-9.zip [2] https://github.com/sorear/niecza http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2011/08/msg659.html Tue, 30 Aug 2011 07:57:40 +0000 Parrot 3.7.0 "Wanda" released by Will Coleda OTTO. Apes don't read philosophy. WANDA. Yes they do, Otto. They just don't understand it. Now let me correct you on a couple of things, OK? Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not 'Every Man For Himself'. OTTO. You read... WANDA. And... the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up. Now. You have just assaulted the one man who can keep you out of jail and make you rich. So, what are you going to do about it, huh? What would an intellectual do? What would Plato do? -- A Fish Called Wanda, by John Cleese. With that, I'd like to apologize for Parrot 3.7.0, also known as "Wanda". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 3.7.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/3.7.0/), or by following the download instructions at http://parrot.org/download. For those who would like to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend getting the latest and best Parrot code from github (https://github.com/parrot/parrot). Parrot 3.7.0 News: - Core + Added mem_sys_strndup function. + Added new load_bytecode_p_s opcode as an eventual replacement for load_bytecode_s + Added new :tag() syntax to IMCC for PIR + Improved configuration support for msys + known-buggy parrot_debugger is no longer installed - Languages + Winxed - Updated snapshot to version 1.1.0 - multi functions and methods - cast to var - load_packfile builtin - __NAMESPACE__ and __CLASS__ predefined constants - Documentation + The Archive::Tar and Archive::Zip libraries now have POD docs The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are: 939d10eaeec7fdbe689a7e1cc6cd613e343b32eda0f5394b79f98347b68e37f8 parrot-3.7.0.tar.bz2 494eb7749fbec101acaca890e1272c63192f274796a76463ffa42b99642b3e9b parrot-3.7.0.tar.gz Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors for supporting this project. The following people (in no particular order) contributed to this release. Thanks! Aaron Faanes, Allison Randal, Andrew Whitworth, Andy Dougherty, Andy Lester, Bob Kuo, Christoph Otto, Will "Coke" Coleda, Dan Bolser, Felipe Pena, Francois Perrad, Gerhard R, Jimmy Zhuo, Jonathan "Duke" Leto, Jonathan Worthington, Martin von Gagern, Michael H. Hind, Moritz Lenz, Peter Lobsinger, Jim Keenan, Kevin Polulak, Julian Albo Our next scheduled release is 20 September, 2011. Enjoy! -- Will "Coke" Coleda http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2011/08/msg658.html Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:09:04 +0000 Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v8 by Stefan O'Rear Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v8 This is the eighth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on the last Monday of the month. No major general updates; having courted alternatives I feel satisfied with the name "Niecza" again. 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. 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. List of changes [Major features] $_ $/ $! are more in line with the spec. In particular they are automatically declared in all Routines, and normal references are lexical, not dynamic. Rakudo-style fallback of postcircumfixes to {at,delete,bind,exists}_{key,pos} is now implemented. [Minor new features] [+] is now parsed as a listop, rather than an ad-hoc half-PREfix half-term. $$var now functions for captures created using \$var. substr has been extended to support calling with 4 arguments and with WhateverCode closures. <-> now generates rw parameters. Parameters in blocks now default to Mu. term:<proceed> is now available. Added names: term:<proceed>, Complex.Complex, (Solomon Foster) ln, log, exp, sin $*foo is a simple lexical fetch if there is $*foo in the current scope. Improvements to variables: The name can now be omitted; state-variables are processed correctly when parenthesized or at the top level; will start is implemented. Flipflop operators are now supported. (Many thanks to Fitz Elliott for taking the time to work out the dark corners in the spec and write comprehensive tests.) [Selected bug fixes] do { } is now properly handled as a loop, and responds to labels and control operators. given/when no longer eats implicit return values (Example: "say given 5 { when Int { 42 } }") Getting involved 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. Future directions (Yes, this is the same as last month...) Next month will see a major focus on spectests. Solomon Foster thinks I can quadruple passing tests in a week; I'm not sure about that but hope to at least do so in a month. Other features that are planned for next month include transparent use of CLR libraries, Buf, roles, and pseudo packages like OUTER::. [1] https://github.com/downloads/sorear/niecza/niecza-8.zip [2] https://github.com/sorear/niecza http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2011/07/msg657.html Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:51:34 +0000 Parrot 3.6.0 "Pájaros del Caribe" Released by James E Keenan We are proud to announce Parrot 3.6.0, also known as "Pájaros del Caribe". Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 3.6.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site, or by following the download instructions. For those who want to hack on Parrot or languages that run on top of Parrot, we recommend our organization page on GitHub, or you can go directly to the official Parrot Git repo on Github. To clone the the Parrot Git repo into a directory called 'parrot', use the following: git clone git://github.com/parrot/parrot.git If you want it to be in a directory other than 'parrot', then just give that as a second argument to clone: git clone git://github.com/parrot/parrot.git parrot_foo Parrot 3.6.0 News: - Core + Class.add_vtable_override now allows you to overwrite an override + Integers, floats and strings can now be stored in lexical variables. Previously, only PMCs could be stored in lexicals. + VTABLE_substr has been removed. VTABLE_substr_str has been renamed to VTABLE_substr + Added a new PackfileView PMC type, an intended replacement for the deprecated Eval PMC. + The is_integer vtable on the String PMC now works for all string encodings. + Unicode error messages on Win32 now work correctly. + A memory leak in IMCC was fixed. - Languages + The snaphost of Winxed included with Parrot was updated to version 1.0.0 + Winxed has migrated to Github: https://github.com/NotFound/winxed The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are: a6ae5c4a1af3602043d1139a12ae9d4dfe2dd000250b1a76fc339bf4a004f8c7 parrot-3.6.0.tar.bz2 8280930a12a66c384b397b31482df2efc1fcc65efd723b279c71b1e283c2638f parrot-3.6.0.tar.gz Thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors for supporting this project. The following people (in random order) contributed to this release. Thanks! Julian Albo, Matt Boyle, Vasily Chekalkin, chromatic, Will Coleda, Bruce Gray, Brian Gernhardt, Michael H. Hind, James E Keenan, Bob Kuo, Andy Lester, Jonathan "Duke" Leto, Peter Lobsinger, Patrick Michaud, Christoph Otto, Felipe Pena, Francois Perrad, Gerd Pokorra, Kevin Polulak, Tadeusz Sośnierz, Andrew Whitworth, Jonathan Worthington. Our next release is 16 August 2011. Did you think we were going to leave without a quotation? Wrong! "El concierto de tantos pájaros distinto llegó a ser tan aturdidor, que Úrsula se tapó los oídos con cera de abejas para no perder el sentido de la realidad. La primera vez que llegó la tribu de Melquíades vendiendo bolas de vidrio para el dolor de cabeza, todo el mundo se sorprendió de que hubieran podido encontrar aquella aldea perdida en el sopor de la ciénaga, y los gitanos confesaron que se habían orientado por en canto de los pájaros." The Release Manager will offer a public commendation and a suitable prize to the first person who correctly identifies the source of this quotation WITHOUT USING THE INTERNET. Send your determination of the source to jkeenan at cpan dot org and testify that you did not use the http(s) protocol, directly or indirectly, in researching the source. Enjoy! James E Keenan jkeenan at cpan dot org; IRC #parrot kid51 Release Manager, Parrot 3.6.0 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2011/07/msg656.html Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:34:46 +0000 PerlGameDev Annonces, Aftermath YAPC::NA by Kartik Thakore Hello folks, YAPC::NA 2011 was a blast and I wish more of the PerlGameDev folks were there. Now I hope to think I am a get things done guy. But really I couldn't have done any of the stuff without any of you guys (FROGGS, garu, jtpalmer, kmx and many others!). I have posted my talk and notes at http://yapgh.blogspot.com/ . Apologies to Module Authors and Perl6 for invading your mailing lists but I am hoping some of these projects are interesting to others who want to help with PerlGameDev and the below projects. Before running of to India tomorrow I am just going through my recollections of 'promises'. Also this way I don't forget the stuff I discussed, or if I do forget ppl will remember :p. =head1 PerlGameDev Monthly Aims and Releases =blame chromatic =for kthakore, FROGGS, garu, jtpalmer chromatic has opened my eyes on having a monthly goal that we aim for. In SDL perl5 we have had a progressive chaos. But I think having a progressive chaos that aims to get something done each month (even a few docs) might be a great idea cause we are all busy, and I would hate to lose what we have a year. These will go up on this mailing-list and maybe the wiki (we haven't used both as regularly as we should). Because I consider all of PerlGameDev a single project, I will just be adding them together in an announce end of each month. And you are reading it :D. You might have notice I have actually gotten off my lazy ass and did a good job with this announce. I will be using POD format but subsequent need not be. I have also add 'blame and for' tags so people can understand where ideas are coming from (=blame) and who should maybe perhaps (please oh please) glance at it (=for). So this way ppl can search for their tags/names and ignore the other stuff should they want. =head1 Progressions for July I am gone for most of July so I can't expect anyone to listen to me, and start this so I have already done the first release for July :P. =head2 Announcing Perl6/SDL stuff [RELEASED!] =blame Util =for kthakore RELEASE: http://modules.perl6.org/ (ctrl-f SDL) Util convinced me on the value of having a simple drawing module for Perl6 a lot. So I have decided to add SDL6 'officially' to PerlGameDev. Hopefully in a year or show we can have something interesting. Perl6 is a lot easier to bind C libraries at this point, so that is refreshing. Additionally a discussion with chromatic reminded me that SDL 1.3 is probably the best hope we have for Perl6/SDL (it is a lot cleaner ). Any way I started up the a Perl6 module that does NCI via the NativeCall.pm https://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL6 (It uses SDL 1.2 for now) It has a test, and NativeCall is finding SDL that is installed. It is in the panda ( the perl6 CPAN I guess ). dukeleto mentioned he took a glance at parrotSDL. I am hoping to focus on SDL6 with SDL 1.3 once I have an Alien::SDL ( getter and installer ) for it. This will prolly take kick up storm in August I think. =head1 Continuing Projects =blame kthakore, chromatic =for kthakore, chromatic, garu =head2 SDL_Manual Book Indexing and Chapter Intentions and Exercises I am hoping to read over Modern Perl source today, and do some of the indexing I talked about. The chapter intentions should be done end of July. That leaves the exercises which I can't really promise cause I am bad at making those (garu would you be interested in this ?). =head1 Progressions for August 2011 =head2 Distribution Network/Server/Client for Perl Games =blame hercynium, Jesse =for kthakore, KMX, FROGGS, Alias I have had an idea of preparing an 'official' way for Perl Game Developers to publish games, while allowing end game users to download and running games. Discussions with hercynium and Jesse Vincent, have opened my eyes towards technologies such as MetaCPAN, Shipwright/Carton, and a wxWidgets front end. This idea needs some feedback so feel free to hammer me. But code will start in Mid/End August. I am hoping to have 'test' this idea on Frozen Bubble, Zumbis, Zombie_Puzzle (a Box2d/SDL game) and Construder. Which brings me to OpenGL. =head2 OpenGL 3.0 =blame kthakore, chromatic =for kthakore, Chris, jtpalmer This comes from the following observations ( feel free to scold/correct me ). =over =item Convergence to OpenGL SDL 1.3 is moving over to OpenGL. Having the ability to do neat things with OpenGL this will help to add more performance, speed and flexibility to the module. =item POGL still uses FreeGLUT POGL albeit great is getting ... old. FreeGLUT is slowing down ( SDL replaces this fine and we have tests to prove it see construder. It is an extra dep. =item OpenGL 3.3 is a fixed target New OpenGL is all the way up to 4.x now. OpenGL 3.3 has been around for a while and is not going to be using. =back Based on this I think we should attempt to help the POGL dev with whatever he needs. I will move it to github at some point. Additionally chip during my talk you mentioned some technology for doing OpenGL context/display lists better. Can you mention it again chip? I seem to have forgotten it. The hope will be to make a declarative for OpenGL constructs that can be sent straight to the hardware. Adam Kennedy has some work start in this area (OpenGL::List). Regards, -- Kartik Thakore <kthakore@cpan.org> http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2011/07/msg655.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:31:54 +0000 Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v7 by Stefan O'Rear Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v7 This is the seventh release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on the last Monday of the month. I am pleased to note that Niecza is starting to attract attention from the broader community. However, this probably means a better name is needed; "Niecza" was OK as a project name but is LTA for talking about. Suggestions are welcome. 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. 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. List of changes [Breaking changes] To facilitate S13-style definitions, the methods implementing postcircumfix operators have been renamed: If you had... Change to: INVOKE postcircumfix:<( )> at-key postcircumfix:<{ }> at-pos postcircumfix:<[ ]> (Rakudo style at_key and at_pos support is planned soon.) Constants now default to our scope, not my. [Major features] eval has been overhauled. It now provides access to lexical variables in the surrounding scope, can return values to the surrounding scope, and can use control operators. This includes the ability to use operators in the surrounding scope. Similarly the REPL now supports variables carrying over between lines, and automatically prints values if you do not call an output function. The REPL will catch exceptions and syntax errors; the only major features it's missing now are editing and autocompletion. Junctions are now implemented. Subset and enum are available, completing the standard roster of type declarators. As usual, no BEGIN means enum initializers are limited. Bool is an enum now. Handling of packages has been considerably redone. Foo::Bar now goes through the WHO slot on Foo, like it was always supposed to. Packages can now be overwritten by non-packages if necessary. Niecza's parser has been modified to not keep a redundant second copy of the symbol table, improving a number of corner cases (most notably the requirement to use ::Foo::Bar with imported classes) and improving warnings. Everything that can produce compile errors (except compiler bugs) is now checked for during the parse, and results in a SORRY, not a random exception. Object creation now supports BUILD submethods and has been greatly optimized; it also uses CREATE, new, and bless as documented. Sequence operators (... and ...^) are now supported. Operator precedence traits (looser, tighter, equiv, assoc) are now supported. [Minor new features] It is now possible to use {YOU_ARE_HERE} in a loop; the -n and -p options are now supported. Magical increment/decrement of Str is now available. Polymorphic comparison operators are starting to be stubbed in. Sort can now take arity-one callbacks. Assigning a single hash to a hash no longer dies. Block parameters now default to Mu, and invocants to ::?CLASS. Our subs are now supported. It is now possible to bind to array and hash elements. Packages and modules are now treated like classes, returning a type object (which !~~ Mu, so is fairly useless), not Any. :g/:global adverb to s/// now available. Error messages (with line information) are now generated for duplicate definitions of methods, attributes, and our-scoped symbols. The ** quantifier now supports blocks on the right side, and properly handles spaces around it. Variables except parameters now default to a type of Mu but an initial value of Any. New setting variables: $*ARGFILES, %*ENV, $*PROGRAM_NAME. New classes: Callable, Code, Block, Routine, Submethod, Method, EnumMap &?BLOCK, &?ROUTINE, $?POSITION, $?FILE, and $?LINE are now supported. New methods: Block.arity, Block.count, Code.outer, CallFrame.args, CallFrame.subname, CallFrame.dynamic-caller, Rat.numerator, Rat.denominator, Rat.nude, FatRat.new, (Solomon Foster) Complex.re, Complex.im. New setting functions: lines, floor, ceiling, round, truncate, conjugate, sign, (Solomon Foster) abs. infix:<**> now works in many more cases. (Solomon Foster) [Selected bug fixes] Multiple inheritance now actually works. [Very internal changes] Getting involved 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. Future directions Next month will see a major focus on spectests. Solomon Foster thinks I can quadruple passing tests in a week; I'm not sure about that but hope to at least do so in a month. Other features that are planned for next month include transparent use of CLR libraries, Buf, roles, and pseudo packages like OUTER::. [1] https://github.com/downloads/sorear/niecza/niecza-7.zip [2] https://github.com/sorear/niecza http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce/2011/06/msg654.html Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:07:11 +0000