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Sub as method

Sterling Hanenkamp shows how to use a sub as a method (/r/perl6 comments).

Perspective and FALLBACK

Greg Donald has published two blog posts in the past week: a personal one about his perspective as an outsider, and a technical one about adding an attribute to a class at runtime.

Even More Video Tutorials

Yanzhan Yang, a serial tech video uploader, yet again has posted more Perl 6 introductory videos on YouTube:

Getting more amazing every week!

Perl Weekly Challenge #28

Blog posts with Perl 6 solutions for Challenge #28:

Challenge #29 is up for your perusal.

Core Developments

Ben Davies saw his work of the past months on improving hostname resolution (which is part of his IP6NS grant) finally merged.

saw his work of the past months on improving hostname resolution (which is part of his IP6NS grant) finally merged. Stefan Seifert fixed an issue in the profiler that could cause a segfault.

fixed an issue in the profiler that could cause a segfault. Daniel Green fixed an issue in the profiler with exclusive times potentially underflowing.

fixed an issue in the profiler with exclusive times potentially underflowing. Jan-Olof Hendig fixed an initialization issue caught with valgrind.

fixed an initialization issue caught with valgrind. Paweł Murias fixed various issues on the Javascript backend, in preparation for the final report on his TPF grant.

fixed various issues on the Javascript backend, in preparation for the final report on his TPF grant. Elizabeth Mattijsen made all of the Buf.write- methods return the invocant, for easier chaining. And added support for calling these methods on Buf type objects, for easier creation of Buf s from scratch.

made all of the methods return the invocant, for easier chaining. And added support for calling these methods on type objects, for easier creation of s from scratch. And some smaller fixes and improvements.

Questions about Perl 6

Meanwhile on Twitter

Meanwhile on Facebook

No Perl 6? by Bluesir Chen .

. Intl::Date thoughts by Matthew Stephen Stuckwisch.

Perl 6 in comments

Perl 6 Modules

New modules:

Slang::Subscripts, Acme::Text::UpsideDown by Elizabeth Mattijsen .

. LibXSLT by David Warring.

Updated modules:

XML::Actions by Marcel Timmerman .

. Game::Sudoku by Simon Proctor .

. Console::Blackjack, ORM::ActiveRecord by Greg Donald .

. Algorithm::LibSVM by Itsuki Toyota .

. LibXML by David Warring .

. ModelDB by Sterling Hanenkamp.

Winding Down

A quiet week, with one more week to go on voting on the rename of Perl 6. See you all next week with more news about the Perl 6 Programming Language!