New in 2020.12:
* Removals:
+ Deprecated method candidates (subbuf(Any:U) on Buf, chdir(Str(), :$!test) on IO::Path)
and indir(IO() $path, &what, :$test!) subroutine candidate that were
throwing an exception instead of a deprecation warning for a long time
were removed from CORE [9040318]
* Additions:
+ Add new method deterministic to Iterator role [87fc041][b83b1b3][
b63c0e0][c37a88e][96285af]
+ Introduce %*SUB-MAIN-OPTS<coerce-allomorphs-to> setting [bd5eba4][
49eecd6]
+ Add a new candidate to spurt routine and method.
It does not have an argument taking content to write,
making it similar to the touch utility [f2ea0a6]
+ Add :emit-on-empty and :emit-once-on-empty methods to Supply.batch
method [cb8eb68]
+ Add :emit-timed to Supply.batch method [492651e]
+ Make is DEPRECATED trait introspectable on Routine instances [0d1c8a8]
* Changes:
+ Improve output of Attribute documentation when rendered with
Pod::To::Text [a0a8a51]
+ Increase sensitivity of Supply.batch(:seconds) x 1000 [aecfc9b]
+ The cas subroutine now accepts Mu as both its target and values [
998cae5]
+ Defined List instances no longer return True when calling ACCEPT
with an undefined List (i.e. List ~~ () returns False now) [9fd79f9]
+ Mark the base native array class as Positional [d1d2546]
* Efficiency:
+ Implement metamodel transparency of nominalizables and fix handling of
definite parameters, gaining back some performance loss introduced with
the new coercion protocol in previous release
[d37906d][ed16d6c][b5465b1][e481619]
+ Fix a shaped array performance problem [f27e212]
+ Make execution of some kinds of when faster [c080e59][0006475][b3a2558]
+ Make cas subroutine ~10% faster [484f870]
+ Make @a[*-1] candidates about 60% faster [2d5d3bf]
+ Optimize some array operators [4ac0f73]
+ Make array access [$i] with $i being a native int about 2x as fast [
7c0956b]
+ Improve the performance of signature binding [b1f59a2]
+ Speed up various aspects of native 1-dim shaped arrays and
native arrays in general
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* Fixes:
+ Fix number of issues with REPL execution. e.g. it "forgetting" previous
multi sub declarations, calling WHAT on native type
[7c0a81f][eae309a][e46a1da][f2851b9][e8ab527][0d6278f]
[6f7718c][be45507]
+ Fix roles not being auto-punned for postcifcumfix:<( )>, by
implementing an invocation protocol for roles [79d2aea]
[5a22a7c][77a7bd2][17223fc][4009f40][538ad1b][9f98595]
+ Fix concurrency issue in compilations with heredocs [147bae3]
+ Fix subsets of coercions [af43ef6]
+ Fix an issue with splitdir method of IO::Spec::Unix
leading to action at a distance bugs [3d46341][f154244]
+ Fix argument of a coercion type not having a workable default value
[44cc88b][856dfb2]
+ Fix error reporting for slurpy named parameters with type constraints [
e1f09cf]
+ Fix behavior of postcircumfix [ ] called with Iterable on
native array [4304e25]
+ Disallow calling of postcircumfix [ ] with type objects [6c7044e]
+ Fix a bug in set symmetric difference logic [7b6de5c]
+ Make Num coercer demand definite invocant [a75b3fa]
+ Add missing handling of adverbs :kv, :p, :k, :v for
1-dim shaped native arrays, also support many adverbs at once
(e.g. :exists:(kv|p) [0f4970d][02e48d8]
+ Give stub packages created by package_at_key a proper longname [aab4f55
]
+ Fix raku method called on CompUnit::Repository::Distribution instance [
7d0813c]
+ Fix proper reporting of the X::Parameter::RW exception message [1732054
]
+ Fix RAKUDO_MODULE_DEBUG output when the message contains meta
characters [b58510f]
+ The Test module now correctly handles RAKU_TEST_TIMES environment
variable,
previously called PERL6_TEST_TIMES [d84ed4e]
* Internal:
+ Remove deprecated functionality to core epilogue [7406f8c]
+ Introduce Rakudo::Iterator.TailWith [f6c7ddb][9dbb52f]
+ Add sink-all method to a number of PredictiveIterators [cf0f2f2]
+ Make Iterator.sink-all default to using skip-one [f0ebdd0]
+ Add raku method to Rakudo::Internals::IterationSet for easier debugging
[0d301fa]
+ Remove all easily removable nqp::stmts from Rakudo code [f2f2cf8]
+ Another round of nqp::if -> ternaries [aba90b0]
+ Fix unwanted references to other compilations by CompilerServices [
d0de766]
+ Type IO::Socket::INET family/type/protocol values [534cc54]
+ Add missing debug type names for easier debugging [a68b8ab]
+ Move "is test-assertion" to candidates [15ec4fe]
+ Adapt filenames in binary release scripts [3748884]
+ Various cleanup and micro-optimization changes [1801a5a]
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