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Perl 6 changes - 2012W48

2012-12-01

Rakudo Star 2012.11 was released with new impressive improvements (check my previous posts for more information). If you’re reading this, please check out the Perl 6 Advent Calendar - new posts are added daily.

Incompatible changes

Rakudo Star (post Rakudo Star 2012.11)

Removed ~/.perl6/lib from @*INC.

New features

Perl 6 specification

Str.indent ignores empty lines.

Rakudo Perl (in Rakudo Star 2012.11)

Unknown metacharacters in regexp throw X::Syntax::Regex::UnrecognizedMetachar.
Null regexp throws X::Syntax::Regex::NullRegex.
Unrecognized backslash sequence throws X::Backslash::UnrecognizedSequence.
Non-variable dollar throws X::Backslash::NonVariableDollar.

Rakudo Perl (post Rakudo Star 2012.11)

--doc option now works.
Str.indent ignores empty lines.
Added Signature.ACCEPTS.

Niecza Perl

make install now works.

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