Anton Antonov has published a blog post (and associated video) about the conversion and evaluation of Raku files (/r/rakulang comments) into Mathematica and Jupyter notebooks.

Elizabeth’s Corner

Elizabeth Mattijsen continued their 4-week blogging streak with:

• Don’t fear the grepper! Part 6/6: Sequencing for the win! (/r/rakulang comments)
• It’s time to rak! Part 3: Specifying a pattern

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #190 is available for your perusal.

New Problem Solving Issues

• Raku / Perl 6 books – CCR measures and beyond
• Smartmatching to S/// is not a bug but a feature

New Pull Requests

• Arguments to nqp::chown() should be unsigned
• Bump mimalloc to v2.0.7
• Properly compose with[out] with external for
• Implement IO::Path.chown and chown()

Core Developments

• Daniel Green added a chown op to NQP.
• Salvador Ortiz fixed a regression in the handling of S///.
• Elizabeth Mattijsen fixed a regression in notifications not being delivered when watching files.
• Stefan Seifert again was very active in the RakuAST branch, implementing support for signature literals and some pesky code involving EVAL in BEGIN blocks. Among many other things. Tests now at 549/1355 (+13) and 76/131 (+8).
• And some smaller fixes and improvements.

Questions about Raku

• Specify the number of decimal digits on the explicit generator of a sequence by Lars Malmsteen.
• Constructing enums using Z=> with variables instead of list literals by user1915829.
• How to use CStruct by fingolfin.

Meanwhile on Twitter

For the foreseeable future, yours truly will continue to monitor Twitter.

• A postmodern language by JJ Merelo.
• Greater Character by Massa Humberto.
• Array Degree by Massa Humberto.
• Measuring modules over the years by Alexey Melezhik.
• Gives me one by Massa Humberto.
• Subst with a Callable by Julia.
• A non-amphibious bonus by Mark Gardner.
• How to declare a character by Mohammad S Anwar.
• Another Greater Character by Mohammad S Anwar.
• Unaware by cangoxina.
• String handling +1, concurrency +1, syntax variations -∞ by Bite Code.
• Frustrating junctionsby Julia.
• A declarative DSL for pipelines by Alexey Melezhik.
• Is it the official name? by くんすと.
• Dependent typing? by Katie.
• Learned so much! by assim falou sergio.
• Brilliantly insane by interlocutor.
• Testing multiply by Alexey Melezhik.
• Doing the job by Suman Khanal.
• Unstolen stuff by Marc Chantreux.
• Tables made prettier by Kay Rhodes.
• Well documented by curupira.
• Obviously? by odińca.

Meanwhile on the mailing list

• How can a symlink be edited to a new target, if the targetis a directory by Richard Hainsworth.

Comments about Raku

• Known as TPRF on HackerNews.
• In your imagination by daxim.
• Supposed to say? by ChineseEntrepreneur.
• GIL-free by yellowapple.
• Quote of the week on LWN.net.

New Raku Modules

• are “Produce the common type / role of a list of objects” by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• Prettier::Table “A simple Raku module to generate smooth looking ASCII tables” by Kay Rhodes.
• RakupodObject “Extract the $=pod object from an external Rakupod source” by Tom Browder.

Updated Raku Modules

• UpRooted by Pawel Pabian.
• AttrX::Mooish, Config::BINDish, Log::Dispatch by Vadim Belman.
• fez, CSV::Parser by Tony O’Dell.
• PublicSuffix by JJ Atria.
• App::Rak, String::Utils by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• Text::CodeProcessing, Markdown::Grammar by Anton Antonov.
• Sparrowdo by Alexey Melezhik.
• PDF::Class by David Warring.
• Intl::CLDR, DateTime::React by Matthew Stuckwisch.
• Audio::TagLib by Adrian Kreher.
• Collection-Plugin-Development by Richard Hainsworth.
• Geo::WellKnownBinary, Geo::Geometry by Kevin Pye
• IO::Maildir by neula.
• Listicles by Kay Rhodes.

Winding down

A bit of a quiet week, but with some amazing RakuAST developments!

This week’s shows nature at work, even when the weather is definitely becoming more gloomy. To remind us Ukraine is still fighting the Russian aggression. Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

In the meantime, please keep staying safe, keep staying healthy, and keep up the good work!

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