Rakudo 2012.11

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

Uses the Parrot VM to compile the code.

Requirements:

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

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

· Implemented precedence related traits (equiv, looser, tighter, assoc)
· Perl 6 grammar NFAs are pre-computed, saving some work on each invocation; this shaved around 10% off the time needed to run the spectests
· regexes and quotes have better support for user-selected delimiters
· FIRST/NEXT/LAST can now be used in all types of loop (previously limited to for)

Via: Rakudo 2012.11