From: Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:45:56 -0400
Parrot release 0.7.0 is due out this coming Tuesday, so now is the
time to start focusing on . . . updating such things as the NEWS and
PLATFORMS files . . .
I've fleshed out NEWS based on "svn log"; please give it a look, because
I'm sure I've missed lots. In particular, I didn't say anything about
Cardinal, Pipp, and Tcl, because the commits for these languages tended
to make my eyes glaze. TIA,
-- Bob
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New in 0.7.0 [r29473 through r30270]
- Specification
+ PDD27: add multisub lookup
- Languages
+ Cardinal (Ruby):
+ Lua:
- [opengl4lua branch merge?]
+ Pipp (PHP):
+ Pugs (Perl 6):
- removed due to bit rot
+ Rakudo (Perl 6):
- updated the Rakudo roadmap
- Perl 6 multi dispatch
- dispatch with slurpies
- class attributes ("my $.x")
- now up to 2196 passing tests
+ Tcl:
- [lots]
- Compilers
+ PCT:
- :scope('register') for PAST::Var nodes
+ PIRC:
- PIR registers now use the vanilla register allocator
- all PASM output now uses PASM registers
- all .locals and $registers are mapped
- Configuration
+ tests now clean up after themselves
+ improved parallel test support
+ ports/cygwin added
+ Darwin problems fixed
- Deprecations
+ ".pragma n_operators" is deprecated
+ old PASM register syntax (without "$") is deprecated
+ bare (unquoted) method names are deprecated
+ "#line" will be replaced with ".line"
+ ".HLL_map" syntax will change
+ ".loadlib" is now separate from ".HLL"
+ mmdvtregister and mmdvtablefind opcodes are deprecated
+ removed getfd, getclass opcodes, plus numeric get_attr and set_attr
- Implementation
+ new concurrency implementation (see PDD25)
+ new "say" opcode
+ Exception PMC now captures a return continuation
- Tools
+ parrot_debugger renamed from pdb, numerous tweaks
- Miscellaneous
