Like snow flakes, all different, all unique! But a lot to read and to take in. On the other hand, you have a whole week to catch up!

Adventing Perl 6

Yes, it’s that time of the year again: every day a blog post about a specific Perl 6 feature. Every Day!

Quick Tipping

As part of the Learning Perl 6 Kickstarter (now 95% funded with more than 450 backers), brian d foy continued writing his Quick Tips every day:

Of course, it’s not too late yet to back his Kickstarter and become part of this unique endeavour!

Core Developments

Jonathan Worthington again fixed some GC (garbage collection) related issues that primarily showed up when using Proc::Async . He also fixed a data race in Supply.interval and various races in supply / whenever .

again fixed some (garbage collection) related issues that primarily showed up when using . He also fixed a data race in and various races in / . Christian Bartolomäus worked around behaviour of nqp::substr working differently on the JVM backend.

worked around behaviour of working differently on the JVM backend. Zoffix Znet invested a lot of time de-terming -Inf , so that it better follows the rules of precedence. He also made sure that − (aka U+2212 ) can be used as an alternative for - (aka hyphen).

invested a lot of time de-terming , so that it better follows the rules of precedence. He also made sure that (aka ) can be used as an alternative for (aka hyphen). Stefan Seifert fixed an issue for packagers that was so eloquently raised by Matt Trout at the London Perl Workshop during the repeat of his YAPC::Europe presentation The raptor and the butterfly.

fixed an issue for packagers that was so eloquently raised by at the London Perl Workshop during the repeat of his YAPC::Europe presentation The raptor and the butterfly. Elizabeth Mattijsen worked on the final bits of optimising the native shaped arrays, making them quite a bit faster at initialisation, iterating and standard methods such as .values , .pairs and so on.

worked on the final bits of optimising the native shaped arrays, making them quite a bit faster at initialisation, iterating and standard methods such as , and so on. and of course many other improvements, bug fixes and awesomizations.

Other Blog Posts

Ecosystem Additions

Parser::FreeXL::Native by Bernhard Specht .

. HTML::Tag by Mark Rushing .

. CSS::Declarations by David Warring.

Winding Down

A tiresome week for yours truly. But that won’t stop anybody from making the coming week another good week for Perl 6 and even more tiring for yours truly. And that’s a good thing 🙂 So check in again next week for more Perl 6 news!