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Character width is not addressed

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We need to decide on an approach for character width. I will likely use bluebear94's `Terminal::WCWidth` module for this, as it seems that you really do need some kind of...

I dislike the new extensions much less in practice than I did in theory. YMMV, but that's the road we are driving regardless.

Allow for multiple virtual MIDI cables (ports)

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The class compliant USB MIDI spec allows for 16 separate MIDI "virtual cables" (their terminology). This library appears to hardcode all transmissions to a single port.

## The Problem ``` RAKUDO_RAKUAST=1 ./rakudo-m -Ilib -e 'use NativeCall'; No such method 'new' for invocant of type 'VMNull'. Found 'new' on type 'Mu' ``` ## Notes * This happened...

## The Problem Token proto definitions do not work in RakuAST ## Expected Behavior ``` > RAKUDO_RAKUAST=1 ./rakudo-m -e 'my proto token foo() {*}' ``` compiles. ## Actual Behavior ```...

Object hashes are created with `Any` instead of `Mu` as default 'of' type

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## The Problem When creating an object hash without specifying an 'of type', it defaults to `Any`. But the default 'of type' of a regular hash is `Mu`. ## Expected...

## The Problem It would be nice to be able to provide `WhateverCode` expressions to `raku -ne`. ## Expected Behavior ``` > echo "word" | raku -ne '$_ ~~ /\w+/...

Update 2021.10 -> 2024.05

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This is PR is to test the CI pipeline on regular main. But it would be harmless to merge it anyway.

This fixes an LTA situation: > my %h = :1k; say 1 ~ %h:exists ~ 1 ===SORRY!=== MVMArray: Can't pop from an empty array Now we throw an `X::Syntax::AmbiguousAdverb` exception:...

As pointed out in R#2000 (#2000), using `reduce` on a list that includes a container was losing all knowledge of this container. The following would previously fail: my $p :=...