niner

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Tested and works just fine

When we run code at BEGIN time the actual lexical environment the code is supposed to run in hasn't been set up yet. Previously we got around that by compiling...

When investigating a flapper in Log::Async, I learned that one must not use gather/take to collect results from react/whenever. The reasons for this are described in detail in the bug...

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RFE

The exception topic at https://docs.raku.org/language/exceptions does not mention failures and how they are related to exceptions. There is no separate topic on failures either. Failures only seem to be documented...

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The test intentionally triggers a segfault. Especially on developer's systems, this will create a core dump that will be listed by e.g. `coredumpctl list` which makes it harder to notice...

``` nine@sphinx:~/rakudo (master=)> while perl6 -Ilib t/spec/S16-io/watch.t ; do true ; done 1..1 ok 1 - all watch events received 1..1 ok 1 - all watch events received 1..1 ok...

The META6.json file misses information about the license and about the dependency on the native libssl.so library. This PR adds this information. In addition it changes the code for finding...

t/06-channel.t is failing here after hanging for a minute with 200 % CPU usage. This is Rakudo version 2016.10-307-gbca0ae5 built on MoarVM version 2016.10-71-g9d5c874 implementing Perl 6.c. It's a clean,...