"And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick ponie anyway? I mean all
you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and
crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit." -- the tick

Welcome to this second development release of ponie, the mix of perl5
and parrot. Ponie embeds a parrot interpreter inside perl5 and hands
off tasks to it, the goal of the project is to hand of all data and
bytecode handling to parrot.

With this release all internal macros that poke at perl data types are
converted to be real C functions and to check if they are dealing with
traditional perl data types or PMC (Parrot data types) data. Perl
lvalues, arrays and hashes are also hidden inside PMCs but still access
their core data using traditional macros. The goal and purpose of this
release is to make sure this approach keeps on working with the XS
modules available on CPAN and to let people test with their own source
code. No changes where made to any of the core XS modules.

This is based on perl 5.9.1 as it existed in September, when 5.9.1 is
really released ponie will be updated to that version, this might lead
to there being perl bugs in ponie that are fixed in later versions on
ponie.

If you embed perl, nothing should have changed but parrot takes control
over a substantial part of the interface to the operating system, this
might cause problems for you. (One example is that parrot seems to
hijack SIGINT currently, and weird issues with STDERR).

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Enjoy
Arthur