2009/1/21 chromatic <[email protected]>: > Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that > is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. > > Remember, my friend, future events such as these will affect you in > the future. > > You are interested in the unknown... the mysterious. The > unexplainable. That is why you are here. My friend, we cannot keep > this a secret any longer. Let us punish the guilty. Let us reward > the innocent. My friend, can your heart stand the shocking facts of > .... > > -- "Plan 9 From Outer Space" > > On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.9.0 "From > Outer Space." [1]Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running all > dynamic languages. >
As usual, the Windows setup is available on http://parrotwin32.sourceforge.net/ As unusual, Rakudo is broken! François. > Parrot 0.9.0 is available via [2]CPAN (soon), or [3]follow the download > instructions. For those who would like to develop on Parrot, or help > develop Parrot itself, we recommend using [4]Subversion on [5]our > source code repository to get the latest and best Parrot code. > > Parrot 0.9.0 News: > - Implementation > + Implemented bytecode annotations > + Role composition is now aware of multi-subs > + Unbuffered IO PMCs now autopromote when buffering is necessary > + Installation parrot binary and libparrot shared library now supported > + Class registry now respects HLLs > - Compilers > + IMCC > - removed keyed string indexing, e.g. $S0[1]. > - removed slice syntax, e.g. $P0[1..2] > - removed .namespace /.endnamespace pair > - fixed 'new $P0, [classname]' syntax > + PIRC > - refactoring of various data structures > - various bug fixes and updates > - complete bytecode generation > - add '-x' commandline option to run compiled code > + PCT > - add 'hll' and 'subid' attributes to PAST::Block > - refactor loop handling code to handle last/redo/next > - add :pasttype('stmts') and :pasttype('null') > - improve "scope not found" error message > - allow PAST::Val nodes to contain block references > + PGE > - add "skipkey" option to PGE::OPTable > - allow spaces before modifiers in regexes > - add '(' ~ ')' goal matching syntax > - skip creating a class/grammar if it already exists > - Languages > + Rakudo > - improved error mesages in multi dispatch > - implemented clone method for all objects > - implemented MAIN sub > - Unicode versions of infix hyper operators > - refactored IO.readline > - basic support for Inf and NaN > - list and array slices with whatever star > - hash slices > - implemented last and redo > - pointy blocks as terms > - refactored variable and parameter passing > - improved assignment semantics > - improved parsing of type names and subs > - mostly implemented parametric roles > - separate types for blocks, subs and methods > - basic support for submethods > - implemented Junction autothreading of user code (not builtins yet) > - eval supports :lang attribute > - proto makes other subs in scope multis, including in role composition > + Befunge > - back to working state > - ported to pir > + Pipp > - add support for predefined constant __CLASS__ and __METHOD__ > - add initial support for static members > - add support for namespaced constants > - constants are now handled as package vars > - variables are now lexical variables > - add support for superglobals in functions > - Call the class __constructor when there is one > - added incomplete support for closures > - removed support for the alternative parsing strategies > - added support for 'elsif' > - added support for 'do-while' > + HQ9+ > - left the nest and is now at https://github.com/bschmalhofer/hq9plus/ > + Eclectus > - left the nest and is now at http://github.com/bschmalhofer/eclectus/ > + m4 > - left the nest and is now at http://github.com/bschmalhofer/m4/ > + Lua: > - add a minimalist user back trace > + PIR > - "does" and "morph" VTABLE interfaces are now overridable from PIR > - Miscellaneous > + Infrastructure > - 'make smoke' now generates Smolder reports sent to > http://smolder.plusthree.com/app/public_projects/smoke_reports/8 > + Improved const and null correctness for C function parameters > + Sped up STRING manipulation (append, chop), improving PGE about 30% > + BOOK > - Added sections about Classes, OO programming, and methods. > - Added information about Annotations, Exceptions, and Handlers > + STM > - Removed non-functional STM subsystem > > Thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our > sponsors for supporting this project. Our next release is 17 February > 2009. > > References > > 1. http://parrotcode.org/ > 2. http://search.cpan.org/dist/parrot > 3. http://parrotcode.org/source.html > 4. http://subversion.tigris.org/ > 5. https://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk/ > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev > > _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
