Beginning Raku - Changelog

Only major changes are documented.

VersionReleasedChanges
v.1.0321.1.2020 Changes prompted by thundergnat:
  • 10.4. Placeholder Variables - expanded (placeholder3)
  • 11.15.4. Adverbs - renumbered 11.16
  • 11.15.4 Substitiution Regex - new section, including former 11.16. Substitution Tuning
  • Exercise 10.1 - Solution - expanded (and renumbered 10.2; see below)
  • General: Using ^name instead of WHAT
Other changes:
  • 6.6. Input from the user - expanded and rearranged
  • 7.12.1. qw (Quote Words) - expanded
  • 7.12.2. qqw (Quote Words with interpolation) - expanded
  • 8.3. <xxx> (Quote Words) - changed place with section 8.2.
  • 8.2.1. List Generation and allomorphs - new section
  • 8.3.1. Manual creation of allomorphs - new section
  • 8.4. <<xxx>> (Quote Words with interpolation) - new section
  • 8.27. Bringing it all together - new section
  • 10.9.1. unit procedure - Added a new exercise (10.1), renumbering the old ones.
  • 10.10.2. signature - new section
  • 10.17. Procedures in Procedures - added sample code
  • 13. Files and Directories - rearranged some of the sections
v.1.021.1.2020 Changes prompted by thundergnat:
  • 6.2. Stringification - rewritten, including subsections
  • 6.3. Output - rewritten, including subsections
  • 6.4. Stringifying Numbers - new section (extracted from 6.2.2, and rewritten)
Other changes:
  • 6.2.3. raku (perl) - renamed from «perl», and added a note.
  • 17. Classes - new introduction
  • 17.1. class - new section (extracted from 17, 17.1 and 17.2).
v.1.0128.12.2019 Changes prompted by thundergnat GitHub Issue #1:
  • 3.8 but (True and False, but ...) - rewritten and expanded
  • 6.2. Stringification - rewritten and expanded, including subsections
  • 6.3.3. put vs say - rewritten and expanded
  • 7.1. Unicode - added a table
Other changes:
  • 8.2. [ ] (Array Constructor) - rewritten and expanded (extracted from 8.3)
  • 8.3. <xxx> (Quote Word) - rewritten
  • 8.10. Array Slice - new section (extracted from 8.5, and expanded)
  • 8.25. but (Array) - new section
  • 9.19. but (Hash) - new section
v.1.0022.12.2019Initial Version