Andrew Shitov comes with exciting news: thanks to the generous sponsorship of the Perl and Raku Foundation, it has been possible to halve the ticket price to The Raku Conference 2023 on August 3-4 in Rīga, Latvia at the same location as the 2019 conference (Twitter, Mastodon).

In other conference news: the deadline for talks at TPRC (11-13 July, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is approaching!

Rawley’s Corner

Rawley Fowler elaborates about their way of structuring Humming-Bird projects in How I Structure my Humming-Bird Projects.

Steering Council

The minutes of the March 18, 2023 meeting are available.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #209 is available for your perusal.

New Pull Requests

• Update modules.rakudoc

Core Developments

Only RakuAST developments this week:

• Brian Duggan implemented support for recursive regexes.
• Elizabeth Mattijsen worked a lot on placeholder variables and signatures, the .raku representation and deparsing of regular expressions.
• Stefan Seifert added support for .= initializers.
• The number of passing test-files with the new Raku grammar are now 134/146 (make test +2) and 743/1355 (make spectest +0).

Questions about Raku

• How to update Raku documentations which p6doc will read? by AlvaPan.
• Is it possible to use Smart::Comments:from<Perl5> in a raku program? by Jim Bollinger.
• Why use double semicolon in Raku function signature? by AlvaPan.
• How reliable is Raku’s is-prime function? by Sean.
• is Date.new() ... DateTime.new() a valid syntax? by ohmycloudy.
• Why is this Raku program producing a Seq of Array rather than a simple Array? by Jim Bollinger.

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• Call for Papers by Mark Gardner.

Meanwhile, still on Twitter

• Plenty of room by The Perl & Raku Foundation.
• Camelia 5 by nil2.

Meanwhile on the mailing list

• Undefine mixed data by rir.

Comments

• Naturally evolve by uhtred.
• It happened by chungy.
• Recently played by Gabo Szabo.

New Raku Modules

• Windows::Test “Provides a /.github/workflows/windows.yml file for Win64 Raku module testing” by Tom Browder.

Updated Raku Modules

• WWW::OpenAI by Anton Antonov.
• Humming-Bird by Rawley Fowler.
• Date::Event, Holidays::US::Federal, Date::Utils, Mi6::Helper by Tom Browder.
• PDF::Lite, PDF::Content by David Warring.
• MIDI::Make by Pierre-Emmanuel Lévesque.
• PublicSuffix by JJ Atria.
• AttrX::Mooish by Vadim Belman.
• fez by Tony O’Dell.
• Inline::Scheme::Gambit by iynehz.
• Raku::Pod::Render by Richard Hainsworth.
• Config::DataLang::Refine by Marcel Timmerman.
• App::Unicode::Mangle by Will Coleda.
• Chart::Gnuplot by Itsuki Toyota.

Winding down

Quite a few questions this week, but mostly because yours truly forgot to mention them the past weeks. This week’s picture is to remind us of a future in which the people of Ukraine can return to normality. Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

Please keep staying safe, keep staying healthy, and keep up the good work!

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