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