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