[Announce] Rakudo 2012.05 "MadMongers"

Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler development release #52 ("MadMongers") On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm glad to announce the May 2012 release of Rakudo Perl #52 "MadMongers". Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine (see ). The t

[perl #111286] [BUG] Name capture happens in the presence of a quantifier but not in its absence in Rakudo

Now fixed in 0ed00f0 probably needs spectests to close ticket. Thanks! Pm

[perl #112970] [BUG] LTA, misleading error message when a typed array in a signature fails to bind in Rakudo

# New Ticket Created by "Carl Mäsak" # Please include the string: [perl #112970] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=112970 > r: sub f(Int @x) {}; f([]) rakudo d43876: OUTPUT«Nominal type check failed for

[perl #72822] [BUG] Strange error when doing 0..WHAT in Rakudo

This "works" now. rakudo: say 0..WHAT rakudo d43876: OUTPUT«===SORRY!===␤CHECK FAILED:␤Calling 'WHAT' will never work with no arguments (line 1)␤ Expected: :(\$x)␤» * masak closes https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=72822

[perl #70229] [BUG] Failure stringifies to '' in Rakudo, shouldn't

> Current implementation: > > 11:55 < [Coke]> rakudo: say 1 ^^ 1 > 11:55 <+p6eval> rakudo aa8f19: OUTPUT«Nil␤» > 11:55 < [Coke]> rakudo: say (1 ^^ 1).WHAT > 11:55 <+p6eval> rakudo aa8f19: OUTPUT«Nil␤» This looks fixed to me, and tested. Resolving ticket.

[perl #68112] [BUG] .sort doesn't accept &rand (or zero-arg subs in general) in Rakudo

On Mon Jul 12 08:46:21 2010, bbkr wrote: > [17:42] bbkr: re "determine behavior of 0-arity methods passed > to sort" -- (1) it's not a method :) (2) I think the behavior is already > clear, at least if the spec says this should act like a Schwartzian > transform, which I think it does. > [17:43]

[perl #61764] [TODO] Implement ff and fff

On Sat Jan 07 12:00:19 2012, moritz wrote: > FWIW infix ff is now implemented, fff is still missing. And now they're both implemented, and I'm told they have tests.