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 stefa...@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
