[RELEASE] upcoming release tomorrow

2010-03-17 Thread Nuno 'smash' Carvalho
Greetings everyone, The next rakudo release is scheduled for tomorrow. Everyone is invited to update the ChangeLog file, ROADMAP files, etc. Thank you, smash

Re: perl6 compiler

2010-03-17 Thread Steve Pitchford
Have a read of this: http://www.parrot.org/ The parrot project is to build a virtual machine for dynamic languages, like perl 6. On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Dell wrote: > Has anyone thought about designing or is the Rakudo compiler similar to the > JVM on an enterprise level? What I mean

[perl #73608] [BUG] Rakudo (nqp-rx) regexes won't backtrack properly into capturing parentheses

2010-03-17 Thread Carl Mäsak
# New Ticket Created by "Carl Mäsak" # Please include the string: [perl #73608] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=73608 > rakudo: say "b" ~~ /a*b/; say "b" ~~ /.*b/; say "b" ~~ /(a*)b/; say "b"

Re: perl6 compiler

2010-03-17 Thread Dell
Has anyone thought about designing or is the Rakudo compiler similar to the JVM on an enterprise level? What I mean is would I be able to write applications that can process huge amounts of data like files,claims or account transactions on Rakudo in the future? I think this would be a huge push