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Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler development release #35 ("Melbourne")
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On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm happy to announce the
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November 2010 release of Rakudo Perl #35 "Melbourne". Rakudo is an
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implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine (see
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<http://www.parrot.org>). The tarball for the November 2010 release
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is available from <http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads>.
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Please note: This announcement is not for the Rakudo Star distribution --
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it's announcing a new release of the compiler only. For the latest
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Rakudo Star release, see <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
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The Rakudo Perl compiler follows a monthly release cycle, with each release
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named after a Perl Mongers group. The November 2010 release is code named
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"Melbourne", PM group of Damian Conway, long-time advocate/explicator of
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and contributor to Perl 6.
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Some of the specific changes and improvements occurring with this
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* qw// is now implemented
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* .trans is now 5 times faster
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* indexing is now possible with both ranges and Whatever
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offsets together: @a[0 .. *-2]
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For a more detailed list of changes, see "docs/ChangeLog".
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The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors for
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making Rakudo Perl possible, as well as those people who worked on
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Parrot, the Perl 6 test suite and the specification.
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The following people contributed to this release:
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Moritz Lenz, Solomon Foster, Kodi Arfer, Tadeusz Sośnierz, Nick Wellnhofer,
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Jonathan Scott Duff, Bruce Gray, Jonathan Worthington, Patrick R. Michaud,
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mikehh, flussence, Jan Ingvoldstad, and your humble release manager Carl
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If you would like to contribute, see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on
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the perl6-compiler@perl.org mailing list, or ask on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
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The next release of Rakudo (#36) is scheduled for December 23, 2010.
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A list of the other planned release dates and code names for 2010 is
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available in the "docs/release_guide.pod" file. In general, Rakudo
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development releases are scheduled to occur two days after each
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Parrot monthly release. Parrot releases the third Tuesday of each month.