[perl6/specs] 7a4e19: Very draft-y, very early S24 - testing

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Author: Moritz Lenz 
Date:   2010-12-30 (Thu, 30 Dec 2010)

Changed paths:
  A S24-testing.pod

Log Message:
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Very draft-y, very early S24 - testing

It is mostly meant as an encouragement for others to fill out the gaps. If you
want to do so, and don't have commit access yes, please tell me your
github ID.

[perl6/specs] 0f0b55: remove the mention of "plan *"

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Author: pmurias 
Date:   2010-12-30 (Thu, 30 Dec 2010)

Changed paths:
  M S24-testing.pod

Log Message:
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remove the mention of "plan *"

[perl6/specs] c923c6: EXPORT lives in lexical pad, not package

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Author: TimToady 
Date:   2010-12-30 (Thu, 30 Dec 2010)

Changed paths:
  M S11-modules.pod

Log Message:
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EXPORT lives in lexical pad, not package

The EXPORT subpackage always lives in the lexical scope, and is not
added to the package scope unless you explicitly request it.

Announce: Rakudo Star 2010.12 released

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
announce the December 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable
distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the December 2010 release is
available from .

Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6.  We know that
it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and
there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification
that aren't implemented yet.  But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form
is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications
and exploring a great new language.  These "Star" releases are
intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow
the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the
Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it.

In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
"Rakudo Perl".  The December 2010 Star release includes release #36
of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 2.11.0 of the Parrot 
Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation,
and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community.

This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the
previous Star release:
  * New .trans algorithm
  * Configuration improvements
  * More bug fixes

There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
releases.  Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a
"Perl 6.0.0" or "1.0" release.  Some of the not-quite-there
features include:
  * nested package definitions
  * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack
  * typed arrays
  * macros
  * state variables
  * threads and concurrency
  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
  * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers
  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
  * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes
  * non-blocking I/O
  * most of Synopsis 9
  * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools

In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
features are welcomed at .

See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
 in the release tarball.

The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
see , ask on the perl6-compi...@perl.org
mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.

Starting with the January 2011 release, Rakudo Star releases will be
created on a three-month cycle, or as needed in response to important
bug fixes or improvements.  The next planned release of Rakudo Star
will be on January 25, 2011.

[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
[2] http://parrot.org/

[perl6/specs] fd2b8d: Rewrote "Test plans" a bit

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Commit: fd2b8d3e5942cf09100519168c11ba2c47b344dd

https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/fd2b8d3e5942cf09100519168c11ba2c47b344dd
Author: Carl Masak 
Date:   2010-12-30 (Thu, 30 Dec 2010)

Changed paths:
  M S24-testing.pod

Log Message:
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Rewrote "Test plans" a bit

No fundamental changes, just wording.

perl6-language@perl.org

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https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/41307cea87a5ffb60128f8093d8e560664bf9ec1
Author: Carl Masak 
Date:   2010-12-30 (Thu, 30 Dec 2010)

Changed paths:
  M S24-testing.pod

Log Message:
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[S24] &done_testing is now &done

As Alias++ points out in this blog post, it should be named &done.
http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/39916

[perl6/specs] a2a1d5: [S24] Re-worded 'Test functions' a bit

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https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/a2a1d573270ec813753593fdb2adf116afd9a2c8
Author: Carl Masak 
Date:   2010-12-30 (Thu, 30 Dec 2010)

Changed paths:
  M S24-testing.pod

Log Message:
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[S24] Re-worded 'Test functions' a bit

No changes in semantics, just made things more succinct.