This now works in Pugs:
rule name { Larry | Matz | Guido }
rule project { Perl | Ruby | Python }
rule description { \s does \s }
'Larry does Perl' ~~ //; # true
'Larry does Java' ~~ //; # false
Also supported are s///, m//, //,
rx//, anonymous rule{} and split.
After that, I cleaned up some 800 tests for Perl 6 rules, ran Pugs through it, discovering some segfaults in PGE along the way -- and pmichaud has fixed every one of them within five minutes. Much kudos!
Stevan continues to do huge amounts of work on Perl::MetaModel, charting a comprehensive support for Perl 6 OO reflection.
Net::IRC kept gaining new features. I have this feeling that a major Perl 6 application may appear as a IRC bot...
During bot-writing, iblech discovered that to => 3 was not parsing correctly;
it's now fixed.
bsmith did lots of refactoring to split big .hs files into smaller chunks, greatly reducing compilation time and cognitive stress.
Corion made %*ENV completely work on Win32, then continues to grab
even more Win32 API calls into Pugs.
Oh, and the reduce primitive was implemented, too.
There's more to summarise, but I need to (again) punt. :)