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Last set of wordsmithing before release.
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pmichaud committed Feb 27, 2009
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Expand Up @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Announce: Rakudo Perl development release #14 ("Vienna")

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce
the February 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #14 "Vienna".
Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine.
Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine [1].
The tarball for the February 2009 release is available from

http://www.pmichaud.com/perl6/rakudo-2009-02.tar.gz
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two days after each Parrot monthly release. Parrot releases the third
Tuesday of each month.

Rakudo Perl now uses git (http://git-scm.com/) for its version control
system, hosted at http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo ; the README file
there is kept up-to-date with the latest instructions for obtaining and
building Rakudo Perl.
Rakudo Perl now uses git [2] for its version control system, hosted
at http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo . The README file there is kept
up-to-date with the latest instructions for obtaining and building
Rakudo Perl.

In this release of Rakudo Perl, we've made the following major changes
and improvements:
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Also, Rakudo now implements the following Perl 6 features:

* Anonymous classes may be specified using ::
* Existing parameterized roles are now reused instead of creating new ones
* Roles pun a class when .new is invoked on them
* Existing parameterized roles are now reused instead of creating new ones.
* Roles pun a class when .new is invoked on them.
* "proto" now marks all same-named routines as "multi".
* XopX is now Xop.
* "XopX" is now "Xop".
* <-> (rw) pointy blocks.
* min= and max= metaoperators.
* Many many bugfixes and documentation improvements.

The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors for
making Rakudo Perl possible. The next release of Rakudo (#15) is
scheduled for March 19, 2009.


References:
[1] Parrot, http://parrot.org/
[2] Git version control system, http://git-scm.org/

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