Anton Antonov published an introduction to their new DSL::FiniteStateMachines module, a work in progress since at least 2022! It also facilitates the conversion to Mathematica / Wolfram Language and Mermaid JS. Interesting stuff indeed!

Foundation News

TPRF invites the Raku community to provide input with regards to the future of TPRF website(s) (/r/rakulang, /r/perl comments).

In related news: TPRF is also looking for proposals on hosting the 2024 TPRC in-person conference.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #210 is available for your perusal.

New Pull Requests

• Add info to 5to6-perlfunc.rakudoc at each HASH
• convert from adhoc exception

Core Developments

Only RakuAST developments this week:

• Elizabeth Mattijsen changed the way whitespace is being handled when codegenning regexes, delaying the application of sigspace semantics until EVAL time. And added support for no strict. And added a lot of tests after deparsing / .raku fixes.
• The number of passing test-files with the new Raku grammar are now 135/147 (make test +1) and 743/1355 (make spectest +0).

Questions about Raku

• How can I get Pod::To modules to recognize a Pod::Block::Declarator POD element? by Jim Bollinger.
• Still a good introductory book? by ghiste.

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• What to use for a log analysis task? by Samuel B. Chase.

Meanwhile, still on Twitter

• Perhaps more accessible? by Olivier Mengué.

Meanwhile on the mailing list

• Suggestions for tracking down memory leaks by Nathan Gray.
• My zenity adventure by ToddAndMargo.

Comments

• More than one way to name it by actionfromafar.
• Hope it’s not another by vladislavp.

New Raku Modules

• Sort-Fast “Fast numeric sorting” by Rawley Fowler.
• Ryml “An easier templating system for Raku with basic type/tag safety” by Tony O’Dell.
• DSL::FiniteStateMachines “Class definitions and functions for creation of Finite State Machines (FSMs) and their execution” by Anton Antonov.
• CLI::Wordpress “Simple abstraction to the WordPress command line interface” by Steve Roe.

Updated Raku Modules

• PublicSuffix by JJ Atria.
• Lingua::NumericWordForms, DSL::Entity::Metadata, UML::Translators by Anton Antonov.
• Template6 by Márton Polgár.
• Template::Nest::XS by Frode Marton Meling.
• Humming-Bird by Rawley Fowler.
• Windows::Test, Mi6::Helper, Date::Utils by Tom Browder.
• CLI::AWS::EC2-Simple by Steve Roe.
• MIDI::Make by Pierre-Emmanuel Lévesque.
• Text::MiscUtils by Geoffrey Broadwell.
• Acme::Insult::Lala by Jonathan Stowe.
• Intl::LanguageTag, Intl::Format::Number by Matthew Stuckwisch.
• Test::Selector by Luc St-Louis.

Winding down

Quite a few new modules this week. This week’s picture is to keep reminding 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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