RakuAST Grant Report 2021-03
Thu, 15-Apr-2021 by
Moritz Lenz
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During March I implemented RakuAST nodes and updated the RakuAST-based compiler frontend
to cover the following features:
* The `for` statement modifier, both in sink and non-sink form
* Specifying the return type or value in signatures using -->
* The `rx//` construct, so far only without adverbs
* The `m//` construct (immediate match against the topic)
* Regexes in sink context matching against the topic
I also made some further corrections to sink handling.
This work increased the number of fully passing spectests files using the RakuAST-based
compiler by 21, meaning it now entirely passes 246 spectest files.
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