Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, Development Release #80 ("HongKong")

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm happy to announce the September 2014 release of Rakudo Perl 6 #80 "HongKong". Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Moar Virtual Machine[^1], the Java Virtual Machine and the Parrot Virtual Machine. The tarball for this release is available from

[perl #122803] Promise sometimes is executed asynchronously

# New Ticket Created by Paweł Pabian # Please include the string: [perl #122803] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122803 > On Rakudo Star 2014.08: $ perl6 -e 'my $job1 = start { say "started job 1"; sleep 4; say

[perl #122802] non-invokable object is non-invokable

# New Ticket Created by Paweł Pabian # Please include the string: [perl #122802] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122802 > >From following code: $ perl6 -e 'my $job1 = start { say "job 1"}; my $job2 = start { sa