On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the
May 2010 development release of Rakudo Perl #29 "Erlangen".
Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine
(see http://www.parrot.org). The tarball for the May 2010 release
is available from http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads .
Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release named
after a Perl Mongers group. The May 2010 release is code named
"Erlangen" in recognition of Erlangen.pm and the Perl 6 talk that Moritz
Lenz, one of our core developers, gave this month.
Some of the specific changes and improvements occurring with this
release include:
* Lexical classes and roles were implemented. Additionally, anonymous classes
-- which were never quite right in alpha -- are now implemented more
correctly, and anonymous roles are also supported.
* Basic support for named enumerations of the form 'enum Weekday <Monday
Tuesday ...>' has been restored.
* First cut of use Foo:from<perl5> and eval('foo', :lang<perl5>); needs
Blizkost[1] to be installed to work.
* Numeric / Real roles much closer to the spec now.
* As always, many additional small features and bug fixes make working with
Rakudo more pleasant.
* Rakudo now passes 32,347 spectests. We estimate that there are about
39,500 tests in the test suite, so Rakudo passes about 82% of all tests.
For a more detailed list of changes see "docs/ChangeLog".
The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors for
making Rakudo Perl possible, as well as those people who worked on parrot, the
Perl 6 test suite and the specification.
The following people contributed to this release:
Solomon Foster, Moritz Lenz, Jonathan Worthington, Martin Berends,
chromatic, Carl Masak, snarkyboojum, Stefan O'Rear, Reini Urban,
Jonathan Scott Duff, takadonet, Christoph Otto, isBEKaml,
ash_, bubaflub, Jimmy Zhuo, Peter Lobsinger and Patrick Abi Salloum
If you would like to contribute,
see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help , ask on the perl6-compi...@perl.org
mailing list, or ask on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
The next release of Rakudo (#30) is scheduled for June 17, 2010.
A list of the other planned release dates and code names for 2010 is
available in the "docs/release_guide.pod" file. In general, Rakudo
development releases are scheduled to occur two days after each
Parrot monthly release. Parrot releases the third Tuesday of each month.
Have fun!
[1] http://github.com/jnthn/blizkost
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