#raku-dev on 28 June 2026 - Raku Programming Language Log

Geth

rakudo/main: 04cfda9e95 | (Nick Logan)++ (committed using GitHub Web editor) | 2 files
RakuAST: Resolve an indirect name with a non-literal expression at runtime (#6332)

  `::($expr)` where $expr is not compile-time known, for instance
  `::($*FOO || 'Bar')`, crashed with "literalize on RakuAST::Var::Dynamic NYI".
Resolving the name calls RakuAST::Name::Part::Expression.is-empty, which called
  `.literalize` on the expression node unguarded. For a dynamic variable, or any
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00:01

rakudo/main: 773371d9be | (Will Coleda)++ | docs/release_guide.pod
Claim next release

01:17

[Coke]

releasable6: next

01:26

releasable6

[Coke], Next release in ≈26 days and ≈17 hours. There are no known blockers. 0 out of 26 commits logged

[Coke], Details: gist.github.com/60ebd5288ba000bbb9...711f5dcade

[Coke]

releasable6: next

01:40

releasable6

[Coke], Next release in ≈26 days and ≈17 hours. There are no known blockers. 26 out of 26 commits logged

Geth

rakudo/main: 5c15283e53 | (Nick Logan)++ (committed using GitHub Web editor) | 2 files
RakuAST: Decontainerize a sunk block call result (#6328)

A routine decontainerizes its return value, stripping the container off a containerized return. An `is rw` routine skips that step, so a returned container passes through unchanged. A bare block does neither. So when a block held in a variable is called via postfix `()` and the result is sunk, a returned Scalar was sunk as-is, and sinking a container is a no-op, so a ... (8 more lines)

[Coke]

Weird how some of the RakuAST commits are comming through with merge commits and some are not.

01:41

ugexe

i generally merge the ones with multiple commits with a merge commit. i squash merge single commit prs.

[Coke]

many single commit prs were not squashed.

01:42

but that is a fine way to do it, please continue.

ugexe

i probably just clicked the wrong thing in those cases

01:43

[Coke]

e.g.:

ugexe

that being said... i think we're ready for rakuast blin round 2

[Coke]

+ Allow a pseudo-package nested in a declared name [a142cee8][2bd75104]

+ Defer an unresolved qualified-method-call qualifier to runtime [b1cbbda2][d13257d2]

yah, no worries.

roger.

ugexe

[Coke]++

01:44

my guess is we are at 100-150 failures

[Coke]

c: 5c15283e53 2.say

01:51

committable6

[Coke], ¦5c15283: «2␤»

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Geth

rakudo/5c15283e53-but-build-rakudo-with-rakuast: 1f5a7eb646 | (Will Coleda)++ | src/main.nqp
Reverse meaning of RAKUDO_RAKUAST, introduce RAKUDO_NO_RAKUAST

just so we can build a whateverable-built rakudo for Blin to use where it's easier to have an entirely different rakudo build that turns rakuast on than it is to get a rakudo into Blin sideways ...

01:58

[Coke]

c: 5c15283 pi.say

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committable6

[Coke], ¦5c15283: «3.141592653589793␤»

[Coke]

c: 1f5a7eb646 pi.say

committable6

[Coke], ¦1f5a7eb: «Cannot find this revision (did you mean “45b4e64”?)»

[Coke]

c: 1f5a7eb646 pi.say

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committable6

[Coke], ¦1f5a7eb: «Cannot test this commit (Commit exists, but an executable could not be built for it)»

[Coke]

the commit works locally. i updated whateverable to force a restart'

02:25

need that commit built before I can blin.