Thanks to the work of Richard Hainsworth and the Raku documentation and Raku infra team, the Raku Documentation website now has a date-stamped list of announcements. And every time there’s a new announcement, this will appear in a popup window (unless you disable that feature). Kudos!

Dr. Raku’s Corner

Dr Raku‘s beginner tutorial videos of the past week:

• How To Update Hash Using User Input
• Infinite Loop

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #269 is available for your perusal.

New Problem Solving Issues

• Add nomark for striping accents, samemark is counterintuitive and slow for that purpose

New Pull Requests

• Store short strings inside string’s body
• Add Cool.nomark in 6.e

Core Developments

• John Haltiwanger improved error reporting in several situations, inspired by quite a few old issue reports.
• Stefan Seifert fixed a race condition in updating the method cache of a class that would only expose itself on megamorphic call sites.

In RakuAST developments this week:

• Stefan Seifert continued their work on BEGIN time and associated shenanigans in Jonathan Worthington‘s branch from last year! Starting again at 0 passing tests, it is now back at 1058.
• Elizabeth Mattijsen fixed an issue with the parsing of the =place Rakudoc directive.
• The number of passing test-files with the new Raku grammar are still 142/151 (make test +0) and 1063/1356 (make spectest +0).

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• On autogenerated code by Solomon Foster.
• A Swiss Army Lightsaber by Profoundly Nerdy.
• Until the given array is empty by Seaker.

Meanwhile on the mailing list

• EBook of documentation by Richard Hainsworth.
• Announcements page on website by Richard Hainsworth.

Questions about Raku

• What does the $¢ variable do in Raku? by biancospino.

Comments

• One of the slangs by Steve Roe.
• On await by Ralph Mellor.

New Raku Modules

• CSV::Table “Provides routines for querying and modifying a CSV file with or without a header row” by Tom Browder.

Updated Raku Modules

• Text::Utils, Mi6::Helper, RakupodObject by Tom Browder.
• TinyID by Paweł bbkr Pabian.
• PublicSuffix by JJ Atria.
• PDF::Extract, Physics::Unit, Physics::Measure by Steve Roe.
• path-utils, rak, App::Rak, App::Rak::Complete, Identity::Utils, Ecosystem::Archive::Update, String::Utils by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• WWW::OpenAI, LLM::Functions, LLM::Prompts, Jupyter::Chatbook by Anton Antonov.
• GLib by Clifton Wood.

Winding down

A new version of App::Rak, check out the changes! Also: Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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

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