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When and by whom should changes in Rakudo be documented?

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Here's what we are currently usually doing: *After* each release, someone from the docs team sets up an issue with all changes in the release that need to be documented....

patrickbkr

Dependency hell in Raku

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## Introduction Take a look to any module in the Ecosystem, which has dependency of other module. META6.json file has a special section for specifying those dependencies. Information in the...

atroxaper

Rakudoc Delimited Block Comments

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Rakudoc block comments do not work consistently. A `=begin comment` and `=end comment` sequence with an embedded `=begin code` / `=end code` generates a compiler error. If 'comment' is substituted...

finanalyst

Should the `handles` trait delegate by name or by code reference?

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When `handles` delegates via a method call there are two approaches: - the original one we used for years was by delegating via method name: `self."$meth_name"()."$delegation_name"() - the one I...

vrurg

Alternate name for MONKEY pragmas

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I propose to have an alias for the `MONKEY` pragmas used for unsafe features. The reason is that the term `MONKEY` is not descriptive. It relies on knowledge of idiomatic...

wimvanderbauwhede

Function return types should also tell about the used assignment/container

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Hello, this started bugging me lately... Instead of references, Raku has containers and the distinction between assignment and binding. This allows us to do assignments on data returned from a...

2colours

Pod::Blocks are objects that have attributes such as 'contents' and 'meta'. By having another attribute 'line' containing the line number within the program where the block starts, eg, where the...

finanalyst

modules.raku.org should be deprecated

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One of the older Raku websites, is https://modules.raku.org. Started in 2009, it is based on Perl and Mojolicious, for the simple reason that Raku was not capable of providing the...

lizmat

`div` and `mod` don't convert to Int, unlike everything else

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Hello, there seems to be a very definite principle in Raku that by default, operators try to interpret given data reasonably for the operation one expresses with the operator. There...

2colours

Specify an implementation neutral method for extracting pod

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Any POD6 stanzas in the current CompUnit is available as $=pod. Accessing the POD6 in another file, eg., a documentation file in a directory, is not specified. Consequently, extracting the...

finanalyst