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Notes Notes sigsetjmp wrangling continues Safe Signals Large file support wrangling continues Multiple Pre-Incrementing Test::Harness Megapatch Tokeniser reporting and pretty-printing Unicode Various You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending an empty message to p5p-digest-subscribe@plover.com….
Notes Excising sigsetjmp Benchmarking UTF8 Heroism Cygwin versus Windows Lvalue lists Linux large file support Calls for papers Various Notes You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending an empty message to p5p-digest-subscribe@plover.com. Please send…
Notes Fix for gv_handler segfault rsync needs occasional delete Outstanding Unicode fix New Solaris hints file Lots of lvalue hackery Stephen McCamant and Doug MacEachern week Things to investigate Various Notes You can subscribe to an e-mail version of…
Notes 5.6.1 Trial is out! Profiling Solaris and Sockets strtoul Language-sensitive editors Numeric conversion on HPUX Various Repository browser Dependency checker Unicode task use constant Updates Miscellany Notes You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by…
Notes Object creation and destruction More cool PerlIO stuff What to do with bugs UV Preserving Arithmetic Code checkers Precedence Reminder about the FAQ Various Notes You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending an…
Notes Tests Charnames Regular Expression Bug xsubpp Perlipc Examples Buggy PerlIO news Dodgy Function Names Lvalue Subs Various Notes You can subscribe to an e-mail version of this summary by sending an empty message to p5p-digest-subscribe@plover.com. Please send corrections…
Notes Regexp Engine SOCKS and Sockets for, map and grep Encode Licensing PERL5OPT Unicode on Big Iron Carp SvTEMP Locales and Floats Low-Hanging Fruit Miscellaneous Notes You can subscribe to an e-mail version of this summary by sending an…
Notes Fixing the Regexp Engine UTF8 and Charnames PerlIO (again) =head3 (again) New subs.pm Congratulations Various Notes You can subscribe to an e-mail version of this summary by sending an empty message to p5p-digest-subscribe@plover.com. Please send corrections and additions…
Notes stat vs. lstat Threads and POSIX PerlIO README.Solaris Locales Integer handling revisited =head3 Little fixes Various Notes You can subscribe to an e-mail version of this summary by sending an empty message to p5p-digest-subscribe@plover.com. Please send corrections and…
Notes Error number parsing VMS hackery The (f)crypt of mystery Yet more self-ties Rsync vs. FTP’ing the patches Changes to README.aix The Regex Stack Problem Things nobody’s fixed Craig Berry Various Notes You can subscribe to an email version…
(This is a slightly edited and expanded version of the reply I sent to perl6-meta@perl.org spurred by Mark-Jason Dominus sending the URL to his critique on the Perl 6 RFC process.) I agree partly on Mark-Jason Dominus’ critique, but…
Table of Contents Problems with Proposals of Major Changes Problems with Proposals of Minor Changes Miscellaneous Problems Overall Problems Bottom Line A Very Brief Summary Discussion of major changes is pointless in the absence of a familiarity with internals…
Notes sprintf Parameter Re-ordering The Dangers (and bugs) of Unicode Self-Tying Is Broken Configure Confused By Changing Architectures Encode Switch Various Notes You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending an empty message to p5p-digest-subscribe@plover.com….
$16,500 pledged, another $11,000 needed to liberate Damian Conway. As reported earlier, the Yet Another Society (YAS) is putting together a grant to Monash University, Australia. The grant will fund Damian Conway’s full-time work on Perl for a year….
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