Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v24

2012-11-26 Thread Stefan O'Rear
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v24 This is release number 24 of Niecza Perl 6, marking 24 months since the first public release. How time flies. You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable for use with Mono or

Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v22

2012-09-24 Thread Stefan O'Rear
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v22 This is the twenty-second release of Niecza Perl 6, scheduled on the last Monday of the month. You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable for use with Mono or Microsoft .NET. If you

ANNOUNCE: Niecza Perl 6 v21

2012-08-27 Thread Stefan O'Rear
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v21 This is the twenty-first release of Niecza Perl 6, scheduled on the last Monday of the month. You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable for use with Mono or Microsoft .NET. If you

Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v20

2012-08-01 Thread Stefan O'Rear
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v20 This is the twentieth release of Niecza Perl 6, where I pretend I'm on the UTC-36 timezone and thank Solomon Foster for the first release where he did all the real work. non-bootstrap has run into a dead end; I need to regroup and decide the next direction.

Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v19

2012-06-25 Thread Stefan O'Rear
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v19 This is the nineteenth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on the last Monday of the month. Most of the activity this month has been on the non-bootstrap branch (see below). It has now been two years since the first commit to the Niecza repository

Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v18

2012-05-28 Thread Stefan O'Rear
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v18 This is the eighteenth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on the last Monday of the month. You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable for use with Mono or Microsoft .NET

Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v17

2012-04-30 Thread Carl Mäsak
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v17 This is the seventeenth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on the last Monday of the month. You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable for use with Mono or Microsoft .NET

Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v16

2012-03-26 Thread Stefan O'Rear
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v16 This is the sixteenth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on the last Monday of the month. You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable for use with Mono or Microsoft .NET

Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v15

2012-02-27 Thread Stefan O'Rear
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v15 This is the fifteenth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on the last Monday of the month. No, it's not dead. Niecza now passes more spectests than Rakudo, but that is not an entirely fair comparison, and we have the feature matrix now which is

Re: Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v14

2012-02-04 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:15:17AM -0800, Darren Duncan wrote: > You said, "provided said call does not throw an exception". > > So does that mean you have also promoted some runtime exceptions to > compile time exceptions, or inlined the exception toss? > > That would be useful. You don't have

Re: Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v14

2012-01-31 Thread Darren Duncan
Stefan O'Rear wrote: Niecza now supports constant folding! If you mark a sub 'is pure' and call it with sufficiently constant arguments, it will be replaced at compile time with the result of the call, provided said call does not throw an exception. What constitutes "sufficiently constant" is no

Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v14

2012-01-30 Thread Stefan O'Rear
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v14 This is the fourteenth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on the last Monday of the month. I'm on winter break now, which means lots of time for improvements. Muahahaha. This month hasn't seen much of a focus. With this release, Niecza no

Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v13

2011-12-26 Thread Stefan O'Rear
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v13 This is the thirteenth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on the last Monday of the month. I'm on winter break now, which means lots of time for improvements. Muahahaha. A large portion of the improvements have been in regular expression su

Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v12

2011-11-28 Thread Stefan O'Rear
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v12 This is the twelth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on the last Monday of the month. I've not had very much time for Niecza this month. This release marks one year since the first public release, and about a year and a half since the project

Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v11

2011-10-31 Thread Stefan O'Rear
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v11 This is the eleventh release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on the last Monday of the month, at least in the US west coast time zone. You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable

Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v10

2011-09-26 Thread Stefan O'Rear
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v10 This is the tenth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on the last Monday of the month. You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable for use with Mono or Microsoft .NET. If

Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v9

2011-08-29 Thread Stefan O'Rear
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v9 This is the ninth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on the last Monday of the month. You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable for use with Mono. If you wish to follow

Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v8

2011-07-26 Thread Stefan O'Rear
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v8 This is the eighth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on the last Monday of the month. No major general updates; having courted alternatives I feel satisfied with the name "Niecza" again. You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build

Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v7

2011-06-27 Thread Stefan O'Rear
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v7 This is the seventh release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on the last Monday of the month. I am pleased to note that Niecza is starting to attract attention from the broader community. However, this probably means a better name is needed; "Niecza&qu

Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v6

2011-05-30 Thread Stefan O'Rear
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v6 My summer has started. That is to say, hacking season. Many new and exciting things are in this release, and I want to see many more. You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable for

Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v5

2011-05-05 Thread Stefan O'Rear
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v5 This release of Niecza is delayed slightly because of my personal business. For the same reason there isn't as much cool new stuff as I'd like. Sorry. You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a working compiler as a set of .ex

Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v4

2011-03-28 Thread Stefan O'Rear
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v4 Niecza tag announcements occur on the last Monday of each month, irrespective of the rate of development. You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable for use with Mono or Microsoft

Announce: Niecza Perl 6

2010-11-29 Thread Stefan O'Rear
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 I am happy to make the first general announcement of Niecza Perl 6[1], a Perl 6 compiler project focusing on optimization research. I have been tinkering with this for about 6 months now and I feel I finally have something worth sharing. While other Perl 6 compilers