From will at coleda.com Fri Jun 1 06:13:14 2012 From: will at coleda.com (Will Coleda) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 09:13:14 -0400 Subject: [albany-pm] Meetup in mid/late June? (was Re: YAPC::NA 2012?) In-Reply-To: <21D8DBE672A1439DBDD51BAE5B487D2C@twoshortplanks.com> References: <9D6E3F25600E43EB925086A214212C9B@twoshortplanks.com> <21D8DBE672A1439DBDD51BAE5B487D2C@twoshortplanks.com> Message-ID: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Mark Fowler wrote: > On Friday, 25 May 2012 at 00:34, Will Coleda wrote: >> I think I'm one of the few that does, and not this year, sadly. > > In which case does anyone fancy meeting up in mid to late June? ?I'm planning to be either in Balston Spa and New Lebanon after YAPC till the 4th of July. > > Mark. Yes, absolutely. -- Will "Coke" Coleda From gwaldo at gmail.com Fri Jun 1 13:45:44 2012 From: gwaldo at gmail.com (gWaldo) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 16:45:44 -0400 Subject: [albany-pm] Albany-pm Digest, Vol 43, Issue 1 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I support this notion, especially if it's a little further south (closer to the Schenectady-Albany) -Waldo Composed with two thumbs. On Jun 1, 2012, at 15:00, albany-pm-request at pm.org wrote: > Send Albany-pm mailing list submissions to > albany-pm at pm.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/albany-pm > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > albany-pm-request at pm.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > albany-pm-owner at pm.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Albany-pm digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Meetup in mid/late June? (was Re: YAPC::NA 2012?) > (Will Coleda) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 09:13:14 -0400 > From: Will Coleda > To: Mark Fowler > Cc: albany-pm at pm.org > Subject: Re: [albany-pm] Meetup in mid/late June? (was Re: YAPC::NA > 2012?) > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Mark Fowler wrote: >> On Friday, 25 May 2012 at 00:34, Will Coleda wrote: >>> I think I'm one of the few that does, and not this year, sadly. >> >> In which case does anyone fancy meeting up in mid to late June? ?I'm planning to be either in Balston Spa and New Lebanon after YAPC till the 4th of July. >> >> Mark. > > Yes, absolutely. > > > -- > Will "Coke" Coleda > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Albany-pm mailing list > Albany-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/albany-pm > > End of Albany-pm Digest, Vol 43, Issue 1 > **************************************** From will at coleda.com Sat Jun 30 13:44:26 2012 From: will at coleda.com (Will Coleda) Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:44:26 -0400 Subject: [albany-pm] Fwd: Rakudo Star release 20120.06 - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6 In-Reply-To: <4FEF62C5.80401@faui2k3.org> References: <4FEF62C5.80401@faui2k3.org> Message-ID: I'm very happy with the progress this perl 6 compiler is making, both in terms of performance and functionality. For those of you still using perl 5 at $DAYJOB, this isn't going to replace it, but it's got some very nice features that make it fun to program in. Please give the distro a chance -- if you try this out and have any issues or questions (or thanks), contact the perl 6 devs below, they'd love to hear from you. Regards -Will ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Moritz Lenz Date: Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 4:34 PM Subject: Rakudo Star release 20120.06 - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6 To: perl6-announce at perl.org, "parrot-dev at lists.parrot.org" On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the June 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable distribution of Perl 6. ?The tarball for the June 2012 release is available from . In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language ("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as "Rakudo Perl". ?This Star release includes release 2012.06 [0] of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.5 of the Parrot Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community. Here are some of the major improvements in this release over the previous distribution release. * Transitive longest-token matching in protoregexes * Longest token matching for alternations * Enhanced list and .map handling, including laziness fixes and performance ?improvements * Can use an argument list with require * Compile time errors in loaded modules now show a module loading backtrace * String to number conversion now recognizes radix notation * The &push and &unshift functions can now autovivify * Rakudo is now compiled with the same regex engine that user-space ?regexes use; some parsing bugs are fixed as a result * p6doc is now shipped with Rakudo Star. It is a small collection of ?user-oriented documentation, along with the `p6doc` script for viewing ?them. This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error reporting and better failure modes. More exceptions are thrown as typed exceptions, and more meta-model errors have been fixed to properly report line numbers. This release contains an important breaking change to number parsing. Previously, a string such as "foo" would numify to 0. Now this will return a Failure. There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming releases. ?Some of the not-quite-there features include: ?* macros ?* threads and concurrency ?* Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints ?* interactive readline that understands Unicode ?* non-blocking I/O ?* much of Synopsis 9 There is a new online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo Star 2012.06 and other Perl 6 implementations. 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-compiler at perl.org mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. [0] https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2012.06 [1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo [2] http://parrot.org/ _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev -- Will "Coke" Coleda