The weird thing is that the docs ( http://docs.perl6.org/type/Str#routine_lines ) seems to say that the ending newline shouldn't add an extra element to the return list
"a\n".lines.elems; # 1
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What's even more spectacular is that in those 24 hours and with 317 releases, your fancy new release tool didn't catch that most of them -- of which a majority looks more like (meta-)care-taking than bug fixing or improvement, and let's not forget those introducing-a-bug-and-fix-it-5-minutes-later combos -- won't even install on a fresh Perl setup. But I guess it's great that you can release "about 5-40 times a day!"
I was really looking forward to contributing to this CPAN Day and was that close to release my first distribution, but after a few hours watching all these meaningless commits just killed the mood.
If it's going to be a trend in the Perl community to celebrate quantity over quality on the CPAN, I think I'll stick to doing my occasional PRs when I find a bug and pushing some code on github in case anyone is interested.
But yeah, I guess congratulations are in order.
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