Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2014.09

## A useful, usable, early adopter distribution of Perl 6 On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the September 2014 release of Rakudo Star, a useful and usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the September 2014 release is available from

Re: versioning - how to request different 'ver' per 'auth'?

Hi, that is a very interesting use case, and IMO a very valid one. Currently the semantics are, to also explain the correct syntax of the pair that follows a 'use NAME': :authBar and :ver1.2 etc are of type Pair. Wenn the compiler hits a use statement, it smartmatches the distribution's

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2015.06

# A useful, usable, early adopter distribution of Perl 6 On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the June 2015 release of Rakudo Star, a useful and usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the June 2015 release is available from

Announce: Windows MSI Installers for release 2015.06

The Windows MSI installers are now available, coming again in two versions. One installer targets x86 (32bit) platforms, and the other installer targets x86_64 (64bit) platforms (probably Windows 7 or better). Only the version for x86_64 comes with JIT enabled. The two MSIs are available from

Re: Backwards compatibility and release 1.0

Am 15.10.2015 um 10:47 schrieb Smylers: > Moritz Lenz writes: > >> On 10/13/2015 10:52 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: >> >>> Following on the :D not :D thread, something odd stuck out. >>> >>> On 10/13/2015 03:17 PM, Moritz Lenz wrote: We have 390+ modules, and hand-waving away all trouble

Re: To :D or not to :D

> * Patrick R. Michaud (pmich...@pobox.com) [151013 01:05]: >> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:32:01AM +0200, Mark Overmeer wrote: >>> Yes, that what I started realizing when I saw all the pain Perl6 goes to >>> ignore the existence of a real "undef" in the language. (I follow Perl6 >>> from a short

Re: Does Perl 6 use $a and $b in sorting?

sort accepts something callable with an arity of 2. Subroutines, blocks and pointies will do: say sort { $^a cmp $^b }, 5, 3, 2, 6, 4 OUTPUT«(2 3 4 5 6)␤» say sort { $^left cmp $^right }, 5, 3, 2, 6, 4 OUTPUT«(2 3 4 5 6)␤» say sort -> $a, $b { $a cmp $b }, 5, 3, 2, 6, 4 OUTPUT«(2 3 4 5 6)␤»

Announce: Windows MSI Installers for release 2016.01

The Windows MSI installers are now available, coming again in two versions. One installer targets x86 (32bit) platforms, and the other installer targets x86_64 (64bit) platforms (probably Windows 7 or better). Only the version for x86_64 comes with JIT enabled. The two MSIs are available from

Announce: Mac OS X Installer for release 2016.01

Thanks to Steve Mynott a Mac OS X installer is now available. This installer has the ".dmg" file extension and is available from http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/.

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2016.01

# Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2016.01 ## A useful and usable production distribution of Perl 6 On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the January 2016 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable production distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the