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Anton’s Corner

Anton Antonov has been busy again this week: a new module (WWW::MermaidInk) and an associated blog post with an introduction and examples!

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #213 is available for your perusal.

New Problem Solving Issues

• Provide  sort with :k adverb (returns ordinal index)

New Pull Requests

• Describe additional word splitters for quote protection
• Warn about missing perl5 mods in Configure instead of exploding make …
• Add is-monotonically-increasing method to Iterators

Core Developments

• Timo Paulssen fixed an LTA error message when configuring NQP / Rakudo on some Linux distributions.

And in RakuAST developments this week:

• Elizabeth Mattijsen completed support for declarator docs and the $=pod and $=finish pod variables and wrote a lot of tests.
• Stefan Seifert added support for P5 regex dialect, support for &?ROUTINE and &?BLOCK, to name but a few of the fixes and improvements.
• The number of passing test-files with the new Raku grammar are now 138/150 (make test +0) and 779/1355 (make spectest +13).

Questions about Raku

• Why do I want Raku in Mathematica? by gammaphreak.
• How to remove lines with nonsense format numbers? by csnl.

Comments

• It is unbeatable for writing obvious code by tmtvl.
• Filenames are a myth by flussence.
• The real killer feature by culi.
• Another Raku solution by Ralph Mellor.

New Raku Modules

• App::APOTD “Download today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day” by Shimon Bollinger.
• WWW::MermaidInk “Get images corresponding to Mermaid-js specifications” by Anton Antonov.

Updated Raku Modules

• PDF::Document by Tom Browder.
• Timezones::ZoneInfo, DateTime::Timezones, Intl::Format::DateTime by Matthew Stuckwisch.
• Humming-Bird by Rawley Fowler.
• Lingua::Translation::DeepL, WWW::OpenAI by Anton Antonov.
• HTTP::HPACK by Jonathan Worthington.
• LibXML, Font::FreeType, PDF::Font::Loader by David Warring.
• Pod::From::Cache, Collection by Richard Hainsworth.
• App::Uni by Will Coleda.
• MIDI::Make by Pierre-Emmanuel Lévesque.
• String::Utils by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• File::ExtendedAttributes by Adrian Kreher.

Winding down

This week’s picture is a reminder of spring season really starting, hoping that the people of Ukraine will be able to enjoy spring without worries again soon. Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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