2016.35 A Quick One From Zagreb

Yours truly reporting en route from the YAPC::Europe 2016 in Cluj-Napoca to the Alpine Perl Workshop in Innsbruck. Videos of YAPC::Europe 2016 should be appearing shortly.

Meanwhile in the Far East

Audrey Tang, the original creator of Pugs (an earlier implementation of Perl 6 using Haskell), has been appointed as a minister without portfolio in the Taiwanese government. I think it is safe to say that the entire Perl community wishes her all the best in this new endeavour! Each time one does a spectest, remember that the The Official Perl 6 Test Suite was started as part of the Pugs project!

Core Developments

• Smartmatching Bag/Mix and eqv has become a lot faster.
• Calling .grep or .first on a list of Pairs with a Regex now works.
• Signatures that have both slurpy parameters and defaults, are no longer allowed (they should never have been).
• The RAKUDO_EXCEPTIONS_HANDLER environment variable can now be set to JSON to have errors appear as a JSON stream on STDERR.
• Hash.classify now handles Junctions correctly.
• Control commands such as next and return are no longer allowed at the top level of the REPL.
• IO::Handle.comb/.split no longer work on handles that were opened in :bin mode (at least until we’ve figured out sustainable semantics of this functionality).
• IO::Handle.slurp-rest now supports a :close flag that will close the handle if so requested.
• And of course many other smaller optimizations and (documentation) improvements.

Blog Posts

• Damianware by Dave Cross.
• Cultured Perl by Dave Cross.
• Welcome To Cultured Perl by Dave Cross.
• YAPC::Europe 2016 by Salvador Fandiño.
• Traffic Stats of r/perl6 by raiph.
• Installing nginx using sparrowdo and Sparrowdo::Nginx Perl6 module by Alexey Melezhik.
• Any Good Libraries For Parsing RSS? by bstamour.
• Installs nginx from the source using Sparrowdo tool by Alexey Melezhik (with Reddit comments).
• OEIS core in Perl 6 – Math, Unicode and lots of fun! by Aaron Sherman.
• Open Source Projects – When Ideas Meet Reality by Zoffix Znet.
• You Wouldn’t Believe What I Saw At YAPC::EU by Steve Mynott (With Reddit comments).
• Things I learned at the European Perl Conference 2016 in Cluj by Thomas Klausner.

Ecosystem Additions

Quite a nice crop again this week:

• DOM::Tiny by Sterling Hanenkamp.
• python::itertools by Armand Halbert.
• SCRAM by Marcel Timmerman.
• Sparrowdo::RemoteFile by Alexey Melezhik.
• Sparrowdo::Archive by Alexey Melezhik.
• Math::Sequences by Aaron Sherman.
• Numeric::Pack by Sam Gillespie.
• SPEC::Func by Zoffix Znet.

Winding Down

It has been a busy week for yours truly with all the travelling and conference attending and socializing and sleep depriving. I hope I didn’t miss too many important things. If you think I did, let me know and we’ll let the world know the next week. Until then!