I am very happy to announce Pugs 6.0.12, with full support for source code written in UTF-8, and Perl5-compatible regular expression matching as rx:perl5//.
With this release out, I will divert some of my time on the Compiler backend. See http://use.perl.org/~autrijus/journal/23757 and tomorrow's journal for further details. :-) [Changes for 6.0.12 - March 21, 2005] Pugs Internals: * We now require GHC 6.4 on Win32. * Perl5-compatible regular expressions as rx:perl5/.../. * Unicode identifiers now work across all platforms. * Smartmatch ~~ now for regex. * Capturing variables as $/.[], $0, $1, $2. * Nested outward CALLER::CALLER::CALLER:: scopes. * x=, xx= and Y=. * => now autoquotes left hand barewords. * ?? :: now parses correctly. * New primitives: index(), rindex(), substr(), sort(), true(). * New primitives: lcfirst(), ucfirst(), lc(), uc(), split(). * New primitives: pick(), values(), nor(). * The interactive shell now preserves lexical variable declarations. * String numification now uses the same lexing rule as numeric literals. * Kludgy hack for &sub.goto() now works. * :l in interactive shell for loading modules. * More experimental shell commands like :i and !. * Symbol table now contains Vals instead of Exps. Tests, Examples and Documentations: * Massive reorganization for t/ hierarchy; we have 2450 subtests now. * Test coverage catalog utility in util/catalog_tests.pl. * New p6ified CPAN modules: Algorithm::Dependency, File::Spec. * Core documentations moved into ext/Pugs-Documentation/. * Locale::KeyedText is made more perl6ish with subtypes. * Test.pm has been massively refactored, and now has its own test suite. * isa_ok(), eval_ok() and eval_is() in Test.pm. * perlpodspec.kwid, describing POD document model and dialects. * perlkwidspec.kwid, specification for the Kwid dialect of POD. * PA01.kwid, Kwid version of Pugs Apocryphon 1. * Perl5-Kwid, Perl 5 implementation of the Kwid language. Bug Fixes: * Infix junction constructors no longer falltens its operands. * Mutable variables are now properly pretty-printed. * "pugscc" was broken on case-sensitive filesystems. * last() no longer work as return() outside loops. * Pugs could not install when perl5's sitelib path did not contain "perl". * := binding did not preserve the lexical scope at the binding site. * Hanoi.p6 was broken due to premature binding of subroutine parameters. * "&sub.foo" no longer attempts to interpolate. Thanks, /Autrijus/
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