#raku-dev on 27 January 2026 - Raku Programming Language Log

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[Coke]

... i saw the .01 and thought "oh no, a point release!?" *sigh*

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lizmat

m: react { whenever 42 { last; .say; LAST say "last" } }

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camelia

last

lizmat

according to docs.raku.org/language/concurrency#react executing a "last" in that case should produce an error

"Using last to exit the block would produce an error indicating that it's not really a loop construct."

12:29

but it just appears to DWIM, which is nice

so is this a doc issue, or am I not understanding something about react / whenever ?

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[Coke]

might have been fixed in compiler and not updated in docs (we have so many release notes to incorporate in docs)

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lizmat

yeah, I guess... I'll make a doc fix

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[Coke]

tried to rakubrew 2026.01 - got a build error the referenced Envy.

17:23

... ripping that out...

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Geth

rakudo/main: 759e583f83 | (Elizabeth Mattijsen)++ (committed using GitHub Web editor) | 2 files
Simplify handing of RAKUDO_OPT environment variable (#6060)

Instead of making RAKUDO_OPT provide defaults for the command-line arguments handling, simply splice the RAKUDO_OPT arguments into the arguments (after the initial argument, which is the executable to be used).
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rakudo/main: 9b0dfbc629 | (Elizabeth Mattijsen)++ (committed using GitHub Web editor) | src/core.c/Range.rakumod
Add :by support to Range.min/max/minmax (#6055)

Lack of which was spotted in github.com/rakudo/rakudo/issues/6054

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Geth

rakudo/fix-windows-msi-build: b05880342e | (Patrick Böker)++ | 3 files
fix Windows MSI build

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ab5tract

lizmat: I started taking a peek at the EXPORT ticket, but unfortunately there is enough code already present for me to be confused as to why it’s not working :/

lizmat

ab5tract: thanks for looking!

19:46

[TuxCM]

I will post new timings any time soon, but the times may differ. I had a major system-update and no idea yet if that influences performance

19:51

lizmat

++[TuxCM]

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[TuxCM]

Rakudo v2026.01-4-g9b0dfbc62 (v6.d) on MoarVM 2026.01-1-g6a80a5d43

csv-ip5xs	0.254	-	0.255
csv-ip5xs-20	1.054	-	1.061
csv-parser	1.070	-	1.097
csv-test-xs-20	0.118	-	0.118
test	1.772	-	1.891
test-t	0.451	-	0.457
test-t --race	0.287	-	0.287
test-t-20	5.656	-	5.785
test-t-20 --race	1.380	-	1.392

19:57

csv-test-xs 0.017 - 0.017

tux.nl/Talks/CSV6/speed4-20.html / tux.nl/Talks/CSV6/speed4.html tux.nl/Talks/CSV6/speed.log

not too much off, right?

lizmat

nah, looks within noise

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Geth

rakudo/main: 6e474f8228 | (Elizabeth Mattijsen)++ | src/core.c/Any.rakumod
Revert "RakuAST: prevent execution error if no RakuAST"

This reverts commit d1a33cd75d2fe192b2a12deb45ead0b77e1e2dfc.

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rakudo/main: d71d63d51e | (Elizabeth Mattijsen)++ | src/core.c/Any.rakumod
Revert "RakuAST: add bare dd CHECK functionality"

This reverts commit 4fad4276ef079623d634cc3bbdc722b08ed27672.

lizmat

too soon: wasn't showing the right thing and interfered with dd() functionality

ab5tract ^^