Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v16

    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

• Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v16 by Stefan O'Rear