While packing for travel homeward bound, a short Perl 6 Weekly from Orlando, FL again. The Perl Conference 2016 is over and all of the videos (except this one and this one) are now online. Here’s a list of the (perhaps vaguely) to Perl 6 related ones:

Core Developments

Map wasn’t considered a value type (which it should be, as it is immutable), and BagHash / MixHash were (which they shouldn’t be). This is now corrected.

wasn’t considered a value type (which it should be, as it is immutable), and / were (which they shouldn’t be). This is now corrected. The pod in Test.pm6 now refers to the language/testing section of the Perl 6 documentation.

now refers to the language/testing section of the Perl 6 documentation. Bind failures, e.g. because of is rw , now mention that reason for failure also, thanks to Timo Paulssen .

, now mention that reason for failure also, thanks to . Rakudo Perl 6 continues to build on Perl 5.10, thanks to Zoffix Znet .

. Handling of Mu in the REPL is corrected thanks to Salvador Ortiz .

in the REPL is corrected thanks to . And many other, smaller and larger optimizations.

Blog Posts

Ecosystem Additions

Pretty Topic by Zoffix Znet .

. Slang::Mosdef by Brian Duggan .

. ווו by Zoffix Znet.

Gems From The Backlog

Winding Down

And now, homeward bound! See you next week!