Rakudo 2012.08

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This is a development, running and compiling environment for the Perl 6 programming language.

Requirements:

· C compiler
· Perl 5.8 or higher
· C library
· Parrot

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Variables prefixed by | or \ in signatures are now sigilless, per updates to the Perl 6 specification.
· Circularities in module loading are now detected.
· An improved inliner, allowing a wider range of routines to be inlined.
· Str.bytes and lcfirst have been removed. The tclc builtin has been added.
· 'abs' is now a normal subroutine instead of a prefix operator.
· IO::File and IO::Dir have been removed.

Via: Rakudo 2012.08