use Perl

Perl6-Pugs-6.2.6.tar.gz
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Thanks to all lambdacamels for bearing with me during this much delayed release. See you next week in Vienna! :-)

Changes for 6.2.6 (r4318) - June 2, 2005

Pugs Internals

• Pugs can now embed Perl 5 and use CPAN modules
  • Perl 5 objects, classes and functions are understood by Pugs
  • Pugs objects, classes and functions are understood by Perl 5
  • These types can also be used in round-trip callbacks
• All user-defined classes now inherit from "Object"
• Bare blocks now belongs to the Bare type; pointy subs are still Block
• Class methods: My::Class.foo()
• Class objects are initialised from the default class tree
• Exclusive-range operators: ^.., ..^ and ^..^
• Experimental compiler backend Pugs.Compile.Pugs2 (not yet working)
• Experimental &code.body support for reified ASTs
• Experimental embed API in src/perl5/pugsembed.h
• Fully qualified subroutine names are now parsed
• More core modules refactored for improved compilation speed and readability
• Multi-invocant calls like foo($x, $y: $z) are no longer legal
• New builtins: evalfile, nothing, getc
• Parameterless bare blocks now get an implicit $_ by default
• Parameterless pointy blocks no longer get a default parameter list
• Parrot compilation backend now handles qualified subroutine names
• Pugs now has a Safe mode, enable by the PUGS_SAFEMODE environment variable
• Stub implementation for .does as an alias of .isa (no Roles yet)
• Unix only builtins: opendir, readdir, rewinddir, closedir
• $str.split(/rule/) and $str.split($delim)
• &infix<=> can now be used as the assignment operator
• Prelude.pm added to src/perl6 to implement S29 builtins in Perl 6
• SUPER::, BUILDALL and DESTROYALL
• is export now works as specified
• loop {...} while, loop {...} until
• map and reduce can now take n-ary functions.
• when .does(Foo), when $_.does(Foo) and when Foo

Bundled Modules

• Many more code sketches and documentation added to Perl-MetaModel
• New Benchmark module added
• CGI has been improved:
  • Now has: escapeHTML, unescapeHTML, redirect
  • Supports more HTTP headers in header
  • New module CGI::Util added
• New Date module added
• New Text::Glob module added
• New libwww-perl distribution added
  • LWP-Simple now moved here
  • HTTP::Headers, HTTP::Message modules added
• Test::Builder is now dangerously close to completely working
• fp now exports &identity instead of &id to avoid clash with $obj.id
• use lib 'path'; now works

Tests, Examples and Documentations

• Some new test and several tests refactored, we now have 7200+ tests
• Pugs Apocryphon 2 improved and edited in docs/02Internals.pod
• Many improvements to util/perl6.vim to handle new features
• More Haddock documentation added to the Haskell source
• New IRC bot evalbot added to examples/network
• New JAPH for Italian Perl Workshop added in examples/japh
• Perl 6 port of Perl Power Tools begun in examples/ppt
• Some new additions and cleanup of the cookbook
• examples/network/screen-nodestatus.p6 added to monitor hosts in GNU screen

Bug Fixes

• Hyper-reduction prefix operators such as [+]<< are now parsed
• Single-character class names were not parsed correctly
• Stringifying a Rule no longer throws an uncatchable exception
• Use of undeclared types in signatures no longer breaks MMD
• (1 => 2 ?? 3 :: 4) now always constructs a pair
• Foo.bar() now dispatch to &Foo::bar instead of to &Class::bar
• Foo.isa(Foo) no longer means Class.isa(foo)
• pugs -MFoo now means use Foo not require Foo
• readline() now reads utf-8
• times now really works on Win32
• when .isa(Foo) is no longer parsed as when $_ ~~ .isa(Foo) now