Parrot 0.3.1 "Wart" Released!

November 6, 2005

On behalf of the Parrot team I'm proud to announce the release of Parrot 0.3.1 and I'd like to thank all involved people as well as our sponsors for supporting us.

What is Parrot?

Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running Perl 6 and other dynamic languages.

Parrot 0.3.1 changes and news

Variable sized register frames are finished. Each subroutine gets the amount of registers that it actually needs. No more spilling.
Vastly improved PGE (Parrot Grammar Engine) including shift-reduce, precedence-based expression parser and support for matching of bracketed text delimited by e.g. ()[]{}'"
unicode character classification (is_upper ...)
support for heredoc syntax in assembler
improved examples, basic JSON support
debian packaging support
the usual improvements, bug fixes, and cleanup
test count exceeds 3000

After some pause you can grab it from ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/L/LT/LTOETSCH/parrot-0.3.1.tar.gz.

As parrot is still in steady development we recommend that you just get the latest and best from SVN by following the directions at http://www.parrotcode.org/source.html.

Turn your web browser towards http://www.parrotcode.org/ for more information about Parrot, get involved, and:

Have fun!
leo