I'm happy to announce Pugs 6.2.6, the first release uploaded by cpan-upload.p6 (under examples/perl5/), powered by Pugs's newfound capability to use CPAN modules:
http://pugscode.org/dist/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! :-)
Enjoy,
/Autrijus/
== 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
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