2008/4/15 jerry gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Aloha! > > On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.6.1 > "Bird of Paradise." Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine > aimed > at running all dynamic languages. >
The Windows setup is available on http://parrotwin32.sourceforge.net/ François. > > Parrot 0.6.1 can be obtained 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 or SVK on the > source code repository to get the latest and best Parrot code. > > Parrot 0.6.1 News: > - Specification > + drafted pdd29_compiler_tools.pod > + updated pdd28_character_sets.pod draft > + updated pdd19_pir.pod draft > - Languages > + c99: added independent C pre-processor > + HQ9+: reimplemented with PCT > + Lua: > . reimplementation with PCT, using PAST and POST > . behavior aligned wih 5.1.3 > + Rakudo: > . implemented basic I/O, including '$*IN', '$*OUT', '$*ERR', 'prefix:=' > . implemented simple typing and runtime type checking > . added basic multi-method dispatch > . expanded named argument handling, including Pair and colonpairs > . added 'Whatever' and 'Capture' classes > . implemented 'handles' trait verb > . added 'loop' statement > . implemented 'given', 'when', 'for', 'while', 'until' statement > modifiers > . implemented Hash methods '.keys' and '.values' > . fixed bug to get '.WHAT' working correctly > . initial implementation of 'eval' > - Compilers > + NQP: > . created a bootstrapped build, see 'make boot' > . added 'infix:<', 'infix:<=', 'infix:>', 'infix:>=' relational > operators > . added 'postfix:++', 'postfix:--' operators > + PCT: > . added methods specifying default behaviors in PAST, reducing repeated > code > . improved symbol table lookup > + PGE: > . removed deprecated code including: P6Regex, P6Grammar, PAST-pm > - Miscellaneous > + notable speedups during compilation and execution of parrot and HLLs > + pdb (the parrot debugger) can now catch parrot exceptions > + better detection of glibc and gettext during configuration > + various bugfixes, code cleanups, deprecations, and coding standard > fixes > > > Mahalo to all our contributors for making this possible, and our > sponsors for supporting this project. > > Enjoy! > ~jerry > >
