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I have finally updated the number before ‘W’. Well, we have the new year - 2013. And because of that I would like to say ‘Happy new year!’.

This is yet another article in “Perl 6 changes”. I lately don’t put articles other than those, but I don’t have many ideas for those, really.

By the way, I find it interesting that no new posts on Planet Six appeared between my previous Perl 6 changes article and current Perl 6 changes article.

Incompatible changes

Rakudo Perl

• “SAFE” setting is now removed. You’re supposed to use “RESTRICTED” setting now.

New features

Rakudo Perl

• Using non-associative operators when association is needed throws typed error message.
• Compile time optimizations for (|) signature (accepting anything), It’s worth handling because it’s commonly used for protos.
• Fixed typos in X::Import::Redeclaration error message.
• Removed old perl6doc documentation.
• DateTime.Date now works correctly.
• .pick now randomizes better on large ranges.

Niecza Perl

• infix:<->(Instant, Instant) now supported.
• Bitwise operations support big integers.

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