(lang/rakudo) Updated 2020.11 to 2020.12

New in 2020.12:

  * Removals:
      + Deprecated method candidates (subbuf(Any:U) on Buf, chdir(Str(), :$!test) on IO::Path)
        and indir(IO() $path, &what, :$test!) subroutine candidate that were
        throwing an exception instead of a deprecation warning for a long time
        were removed from CORE [9040318]
  * Additions:
      + Add new method deterministic to Iterator role [87fc041][b83b1b3][
        b63c0e0][c37a88e][96285af]
      + Introduce %*SUB-MAIN-OPTS<coerce-allomorphs-to> setting [bd5eba4][
        49eecd6]
      + Add a new candidate to spurt routine and method.
        It does not have an argument taking content to write,
        making it similar to the touch utility [f2ea0a6]
      + Add :emit-on-empty and :emit-once-on-empty methods to Supply.batch
        method [cb8eb68]
      + Add :emit-timed to Supply.batch method [492651e]
      + Make is DEPRECATED trait introspectable on Routine instances [0d1c8a8]
  * Changes:
      + Improve output of Attribute documentation when rendered with
        Pod::To::Text [a0a8a51]
      + Increase sensitivity of Supply.batch(:seconds) x 1000 [aecfc9b]
      + The cas subroutine now accepts Mu as both its target and values [
        998cae5]
      + Defined List instances no longer return True when calling ACCEPT
        with an undefined List (i.e. List ~~ () returns False now) [9fd79f9]
      + Mark the base native array class as Positional [d1d2546]
  * Efficiency:
      + Implement metamodel transparency of nominalizables and fix handling of
        definite parameters, gaining back some performance loss introduced with
        the new coercion protocol in previous release
        [d37906d][ed16d6c][b5465b1][e481619]
      + Fix a shaped array performance problem [f27e212]
      + Make execution of some kinds of when faster [c080e59][0006475][b3a2558]
      + Make cas subroutine ~10% faster [484f870]
      + Make @a[*-1] candidates about 60% faster [2d5d3bf]
      + Optimize some array operators [4ac0f73]
      + Make array access [$i] with $i being a native int about 2x as fast [
        7c0956b]
      + Improve the performance of signature binding [b1f59a2]
      + Speed up various aspects of native 1-dim shaped arrays and
        native arrays in general
        [42fceb0][2c5b545][3def3ce][705e6e6][a76e2b6][60fa48e]
        [6792cc4][bd944e7][2274aa8][392d8be][1c43c46]
  * Fixes:
      + Fix number of issues with REPL execution. e.g. it "forgetting" previous
        multi sub declarations, calling WHAT on native type
        [7c0a81f][eae309a][e46a1da][f2851b9][e8ab527][0d6278f]
        [6f7718c][be45507]
      + Fix roles not being auto-punned for postcifcumfix:<( )>, by
        implementing an invocation protocol for roles [79d2aea]
        [5a22a7c][77a7bd2][17223fc][4009f40][538ad1b][9f98595]
      + Fix concurrency issue in compilations with heredocs [147bae3]
      + Fix subsets of coercions [af43ef6]
      + Fix an issue with splitdir method of IO::Spec::Unix
        leading to action at a distance bugs [3d46341][f154244]
      + Fix argument of a coercion type not having a workable default value
        [44cc88b][856dfb2]
      + Fix error reporting for slurpy named parameters with type constraints [
        e1f09cf]
      + Fix behavior of postcircumfix [ ] called with Iterable on
        native array [4304e25]
      + Disallow calling of postcircumfix [ ] with type objects [6c7044e]
      + Fix a bug in set symmetric difference logic [7b6de5c]
      + Make Num coercer demand definite invocant [a75b3fa]
      + Add missing handling of adverbs :kv, :p, :k, :v for
        1-dim shaped native arrays, also support many adverbs at once
        (e.g. :exists:(kv|p) [0f4970d][02e48d8]
      + Give stub packages created by package_at_key a proper longname [aab4f55
        ]
      + Fix raku method called on CompUnit::Repository::Distribution instance [
        7d0813c]
      + Fix proper reporting of the X::Parameter::RW exception message [1732054
        ]
      + Fix RAKUDO_MODULE_DEBUG output when the message contains meta
        characters [b58510f]
      + The Test module now correctly handles RAKU_TEST_TIMES environment
        variable,
        previously called PERL6_TEST_TIMES [d84ed4e]
  * Internal:
      + Remove deprecated functionality to core epilogue [7406f8c]
      + Introduce Rakudo::Iterator.TailWith [f6c7ddb][9dbb52f]
      + Add sink-all method to a number of PredictiveIterators [cf0f2f2]
      + Make Iterator.sink-all default to using skip-one [f0ebdd0]
      + Add raku method to Rakudo::Internals::IterationSet for easier debugging
        [0d301fa]
      + Remove all easily removable nqp::stmts from Rakudo code [f2f2cf8]
      + Another round of nqp::if -> ternaries [aba90b0]
      + Fix unwanted references to other compilations by CompilerServices [
        d0de766]
      + Type IO::Socket::INET family/type/protocol values [534cc54]
      + Add missing debug type names for easier debugging [a68b8ab]
      + Move "is test-assertion" to candidates [15ec4fe]
      + Adapt filenames in binary release scripts [3748884]
      + Various cleanup and micro-optimization changes [1801a5a]
        [eabdee4][45246ae][6852f40][dce6804][c663cc3][1712f03]
        [b525c4d][6ee47f0][912381b][2ce5260][80f9283][161325e]
        [65f24a8][c02c9cd][46e9468][82d31e0][137d49b][53ad24a]
        [1331ffd][c4c4ba9]


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