Parrot 0.4.4 Released

CGIDir
Monday, May 15, 2006; 08:24 AM

The Parrot development team released a new monthly build of Parrot. Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running Perl6 and other dynamic languages.

Parrot 0.4.4 changes and news

• hierarchical class names
• APL compiler
  • under development
  • understands simple vector ops, strings
  • demonstrates use of Unicode in Parrot
• pgc, a compiler for rules and operator precedence parsers
• Major redesign and improvements for PGE
  • compilers understand named parameter options
  • :ratchet option implemented to support non-backtracking quantifiers
• TGE (tree grammar engine) for tree transformations
  • tgc, tree grammar compiler
• perl6 compiler
  • support for many operators, lexical scalars, regex matches
• new pheme (Parrot scheme) compiler

Download is available at ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/L/LT/LTOETSCH/parrot-0.4.4.tar.gz.

As parrot is still in steady development the developers recommend that users the latest from SVN by following the directions at http://www.parrotcode.org/source.html.