Parrot 0.8.2 "Feliz Loro" Released!

[François Perrad]

Andrew Whitworth a écrit :
> On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.8.2
> "Feliz Loro." Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine aimed
> at running all dynamic languages.
> 

As usual, the Windows setup is available on 
http://parrotwin32.sourceforge.net/

François.

> Parrot 0.8.2 is available via CPAN (soon), or follow the download
> instructions at http://parrotcode.org/source.html.  For those who
> would like to develop on
> Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Subversion on
> the source code repository to get the latest and best Parrot code.
> 
> Parrot 0.8.2 News:
> - Implementation
>   + fixed lexical semantics
>   + added the 'capture_lex' opcode
>   + added automatic resume for nonfatal exceptions
>   + added multidispatch cache
>   + applied miscellaneous performance improvements, including startup time
>   + fixed several bugs and leaks found by Coverity Scan
>   + removed race conditions from parallel testing
> - Compilers
>   + IMCC
>     - removed undocumented .param int <stringc> => <ident> syntax
>     - .line directive now only takes an integer argument
>     - new .file directive to specify the file name being compiled
>   + PCT
>     - properly handles lexical generation and closure semantics
>     - uses :subid instead of name lookups to reference PAST::Block nodes
>     - added PAST::Control node type (exception handlers)
>   + PGE
>     - add support for <?{{...}}> and <!{{...}}> assertions
>     - Match objects use Capture PMC instead of Capture_PIR
>   + PIRC
>     - add macro handling to PASM mode
>     - disable vanilla register allocation in PASM mode, but do allow
> optimization
>     - add tests and bug fixes
>     - first bits of bytecode generation. No sub calling/returning yet.
> - Languages
>   + Rakudo
>     - fixed lexical handling and recursion
>     - refactored subtypes implementation
>     - support for quotes with multi-character delimiters
>     - implemented list slices (Positional role)
>     - list assignment
>     - reduction meta operators
>     - hyper meta operators
>     - cross meta operators
>     - more builtin functions
>     - added Nil type
>     - basic support for protos
>     - iterator on filehandle objects
>     - basic support for exception handlers
>     - warn
>   + Lua
>     - added complex & mathx libraries
>     - merged LuaClosure & LuaFunction PMC
>   + Pipp
>     - added support for a return value from user defined functions
>     - added incomplete implemention of 'require_once'
>   + Ecmascript
>     - parser fixes, parses spidermonkey's top level test/shell.js
> - Deprecations
>   + PARROT_API is now PARROT_EXPORT
>   + PIR
>     - :lexid is now :subid
>     - .arg is now .set_arg
>     - .result is now .get_result
>     - .yield (in .begin/end_yield) is now .set_yield
>     - .return (in .begin/end_return) is now .set_return
>     - .namespace x / .endnamespace x syntax is removed
>   + Capture_PIR (runtime/parrot/library/Parrot/Capture_PIR.pir)
> 
> 
> Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors
> for supporting this project.  Our next scheduled release is 20 January 2009.
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> 
> --Andrew Whitworth
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