Whiteknight writes "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. 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 => 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!"
