Zoffix Znet has started working on the IO Standardization Grant for real. And his first grant report brings us many goodies apart from what he’s been up to so far. Worth a read! He also put up a more visible message to warn us of the coming changes.

Help Moritz

Moritz Lenz is looking for feedback with regards to the cover of his Perl 6 By Example book: tell him which ones you like from this list!

Other Core developments

Jonathan Worthington fixed several segfaults and panics.

fixed several segfaults and panics. Zoffix Znet fixed several infiniloops related to methods in the Cool class. He also fixed an issue with thunking of notandthen , as well as a precision loss when using cmp involving Rational s and Int s, and fixed some issues with Rat / FatRat .

fixed several infiniloops related to methods in the class. He also fixed an issue with thunking of , as well as a precision loss when using involving s and s, and fixed some issues with / . Daniel Green did a lot of smaller optimizations in nqp , related to sub s and method s returning Nil .

did a lot of smaller optimizations in , related to s and s returning . Elizabeth Mattijsen made % about 8x faster, and %% about 14x faster, at least for the Int/Int case. She also made the creation of Junction s about 20% faster, and fixed self-referential assignments of hashes.

made about 8x faster, and about 14x faster, at least for the case. She also made the creation of s about 20% faster, and fixed self-referential assignments of hashes. And many more smaller fixes and optimizations.

Blog Posts

Meanwhile on Twitter

Meanwhile on StackOverflow

Multithreaded spurt problems by Ivan Ivanov .

. List comprehension by Suman Khanal.

Ecosystem Additions

Winding Down

A little bit later than usual, due to a visit to the AmsterdamX.pm meeting. Please check again next week for more news about Perl 6!