Announce: Windows MSI Installers for release 2015.06

2015-07-13 Thread Tobias Leich
The Windows MSI installers are now available, coming again in two versions. One installer targets x86 (32bit) platforms, and the other installer targets x86_64 (64bit) platforms (probably Windows 7 or better). Only the version for x86_64 comes with JIT enabled. The two MSIs are available from ht

Re: Language design

2015-07-13 Thread Jan Ingvoldstad
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 12:04 AM, Michael Zedeler wrote: > > So far, almost every other language has behaved this way, and it has > worked. I can see that Rats do solve a problem, but if you'd claim that it > is very severe then I'd disagree. This is a minor nuisance that I'd only > pay a small pr

Re: Language design

2015-07-13 Thread Michael Zedeler
Darren Duncan wrote > On 2015-06-16 2:15 PM, The Sidhekin wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Michael Zedeler > > wrote: > > ...and unpredictable performance is a cost you're willing to pay? > > > >    I don't write performance-critical applications, but even if I did, why

[perl #125608] [BUG] Longest prefix in || alterations not to spec in Rakudo

2015-07-13 Thread Carl Mäsak
# New Ticket Created by "Carl Mäsak" # Please include the string: [perl #125608] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=125608 > when determining the longest literal prefix for a rule, I see that | alternation variant