Weekly changes in and around Perl 6: 2016.35 A Quick One From Zagreb
Published by liztormato on 2016-08-29T21:41:12
Yours truly reporting en route from the YAPC::Europe 2016 in Cluj-Napoca to the Alpine Perl Workshop in Innsbruck. should be appearing shortly.
Meanwhile in the Far East
Audrey Tang, the original creator of Pugs (an earlier implementation of Perl 6 using Haskell), has been appointed as a minister without portfolio in the Taiwanese government. I think it is safe to say that the entire Perl community wishes her all the best in this new endeavour! Each time one does a spectest, remember that the The Official Perl 6 Test Suite was started as part of the Pugs project!
Core Developments
- Smartmatching
Bag/Mixandeqvhas become a lot faster. - Calling
.grepor.firston a list ofPairs with aRegexnow works. - Signatures that have both slurpy parameters and defaults, are no longer allowed (they should never have been).
- The
RAKUDO_EXCEPTIONS_HANDLERenvironment variable can now be set toJSONto have errors appear as a JSON stream on STDERR. Hash.classifynow handlesJunctions correctly.- Control commands such as
nextandreturnare no longer allowed at the top level of the REPL. IO::Handle.comb/.splitno longer work on handles that were opened in:binmode (at least until we’ve figured out sustainable semantics of this functionality).IO::Handle.slurp-restnow supports a:closeflag that will close the handle if so requested.- And of course many other smaller optimizations and (documentation) improvements.
Latest Posts:
Blog Posts
- Damianware by Dave Cross.
- Cultured Perl by Dave Cross.
- Welcome To Cultured Perl by Dave Cross.
- YAPC::Europe 2016 by Salvador Fandiño.
- Traffic Stats of r/perl6 by raiph.
- Installing
nginxusing sparrowdo and Sparrowdo::Nginx Perl6 module by Alexey Melezhik. - Any Good Libraries For Parsing RSS? by bstamour.
- Installs
nginxfrom the source using Sparrowdo tool by Alexey Melezhik (with Reddit comments). - OEIS core in Perl 6 – Math, Unicode and lots of fun! by Aaron Sherman.
- Open Source Projects – When Ideas Meet Reality by Zoffix Znet.
- You Wouldn’t Believe What I Saw At YAPC::EU by Steve Mynott (With Reddit comments).
- Things I learned at the European Perl Conference 2016 in Cluj by Thomas Klausner.
Ecosystem Additions
Quite a nice crop again this week:
- DOM::Tiny by Sterling Hanenkamp.
- python::itertools by Armand Halbert.
- SCRAM by Marcel Timmerman.
- Sparrowdo::RemoteFile by Alexey Melezhik.
- Sparrowdo::Archive by Alexey Melezhik.
- Math::Sequences by Aaron Sherman.
- Numeric::Pack by Sam Gillespie.
- SPEC::Func by Zoffix Znet.
Winding Down
It has been a busy week for yours truly with all the travelling and conference attending and socializing and sleep depriving. I hope I didn’t miss too many important things. If you think I did, let me know and we’ll let the world know the next week. Until then!
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