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This Week on perl5-porters - 18-25 January 2009 A summary of last week's activity on perl5-porters, by David Landgren. "Are these names considered to be a public non-changeable interface by virtue of ...
David Landgren
Feb 1, 2009 at 2:20 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 3-9 November 2008 "PS: Hi, guys. Been a while. How you been?" -- Chip Salzenberg, back on the chain gang. Topics of Interest version.pm synopsis thoughts and an ...
David Landgren
Nov 18, 2008 at 11:16 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 27 October-2 November 2008 "So we're doing things at BEGIN time in UNIVERSAL with source filters. With a garnish of messing with @ISA in some other classes. What could ...
David Landgren
Nov 11, 2008 at 11:08 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 20-26 October 2008 "So we have an existing bug. Sometimes \400 matches \400, and sometimes it matches \01\00, depending on what I would call spooky action at a distance. ...
David Landgren
Nov 4, 2008 at 11:52 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 13-19 October 2008 "It's far from being a critical issue, and I'm not saying that magic shouldn't be enabled there. But I'd really like to see magic behave in the most ...
David Landgren
Oct 28, 2008 at 10:22 am
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This Fortnight on perl5-porters - 28 September-12 October 2008 "... because a git repository is a collection of assembled changes, not a linear progression, using a commit ID as a way to find out ...
David Landgren
Oct 19, 2008 at 10:41 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 15-21 September 2008 "This is sort of like one of those useless Windows alert boxes that pop up to tell you something perfectly normal has happened and you should do ...
David Landgren
Sep 28, 2008 at 1:04 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 8-14 September 2008 "A string in Perl is a sequence of arbitrarily large integers. If they are all < 256, then you can store them all in bytes, so you can use a sequence ...
David Landgren
Sep 22, 2008 at 9:41 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 1-7 September 2008 "These [tests] are new and also fail in blead. The watchdog that is supposed to only kill a stuck process is definitely not waiting 120 seconds, and ...
David Landgren
Sep 14, 2008 at 9:34 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 25-31 August 2008 "I must admit that I find Perl's Unicode support completely baffling. I've read the documentation multiple times, and while I can now predict when it ...
David Landgren
Sep 7, 2008 at 8:47 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 14-20 June 2008 David Nicol: Does pushing all exceptions to @@ whenever $@ gets assigned to break anything? Abigail: In theory, it could, as @@ is a "normal" array that ...
David Landgren
Jun 27, 2008 at 8:37 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 7-13 June 2008 This morning, clkao pinged me and mentioned that he couldn't get perlbug to set the From: header when sending a bug report. I promised him I'd take a look. ...
David Landgren
Jun 22, 2008 at 8:19 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 1-6 June 2008 *Traditional exception handling is more like equipping each Klingon with a dead-man's switch attached to a nuke. Dying by accident in someone else's nuke ...
David Landgren
Jun 14, 2008 at 7:56 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 25-31 May 2008 "I've fixed the bug itself as change #33952. (Whoo hoo! A bug that was easy to locate, fix, and test for. You don't see that very often :-)" -- Dave ...
David Landgren
Jun 5, 2008 at 8:52 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 18-24 May 2008 "Ah, more details about filenames. Well, this sounds positively weird. Octet strings are not particularly user-friendly if you can't interpret them as ...
David Landgren
May 30, 2008 at 9:23 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 11-17 May 2008 Dominic Dunlop: Trouble is, some of it is CGI, and people whinge loudly when previously-clean CGI starts warning. Ed Avis: Ha ha ha. I think any possible ...
David Landgren
May 24, 2008 at 6:48 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 4-10 May 2008 Today, I was doing some mucking about with class data, generated packages, and "Class::ISA", and I started to wail and gnash my teeth. I cried, "Why can't I ...
David Landgren
May 15, 2008 at 9:05 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 28 April-3 May 2008 "I've been playing around with MAD this morning [...] The current state of the tests for MAD is a bit sad, though I hope to have something that will ...
David Landgren
May 9, 2008 at 12:45 pm
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This Fortnight on perl5-porters - 13-27 April 2008 "Perl simply isn't broken enough. Most things work too well, hence no-one finds that they need to fix their itch, so in turn, they don't get sucked ...
David Landgren
May 3, 2008 at 10:29 am
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This Week on perl5-porters - 6-12 April 2008 David Nicol: I have no idea what NaN(Q) is by the way; Google suggests it is a furniture store in Japan. Jarkko Hietaniemi: It's the strong, silent type ...
David Landgren
Apr 15, 2008 at 10:40 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 30 March-5 April 2008 The extent that map/grep go to to keep the calling overhead of the block is horrendous and getting that to work for reduce in "List::Util" was ...
David Landgren
Apr 11, 2008 at 7:44 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 23-29 March 2008 "Anyway, a lot of these design changes work together to produce a smoother result. I confess I haven't thought much about whether they could be borrowed ...
David Landgren
Apr 3, 2008 at 10:04 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 16-22 March 2008 "I suspect that by now the Parrot code base has moved on sufficiently that it's faster and cleaner to start from scratch than to try to merge over that ...
David Landgren
Mar 29, 2008 at 9:56 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 9-15 March 2008 Take our command, strip off the package, pass the short name and the calling package to "_make_fatal()", and then use magic-goto to call our subroutine at ...
David Landgren
Mar 22, 2008 at 5:42 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 1-8 March 2008 "I personally think that the git tools have far too many ways to do the same thing (a complaint levelled against Perl itself at times) for the normal human ...
David Landgren
Mar 14, 2008 at 10:35 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 24-29 February 2008 "Is this a bug? Or why is this the expected behaviour?" -- Steffen Ullrich, playing with signal handlers. Topics of Interest "use encoding 'utf8'" bug ...
David Landgren
Mar 6, 2008 at 10:50 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 17-23 February 2008 Nicholas: So, it seems that constant folding runs in "compile time", which scares me somewhat. Surely it should be running in run time? Rafael: The ...
David Landgren
Feb 28, 2008 at 11:29 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 10-16 February 2008 "So should we punt in this case and revert to the old warning for "SvGAMAGICAL"? My personal opinion is to leave it. People doing strange things ...
David Landgren
Feb 20, 2008 at 11:14 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 3-10 February 2008 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason: "It would be a shame if we shipped a perl with known segfaults." Nicholas Clark (ever the pragmatist): "It wasn't solved in ...
David Landgren
Feb 14, 2008 at 10:22 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 27 January-2 February 2008 "It's a very naive implementation [...]. Given the scary comments Nicholas added in that code, I'd be grateful to see whether one can come up ...
David Landgren
Feb 7, 2008 at 6:07 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 20-26 January 2008 "Adding new lists of things [to remember] to a language is only a good idea if you're making money with certification." -- Juerd Waalboer, on why your ...
David Landgren
Jan 31, 2008 at 10:16 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 13-19 January 2008 "Shifting something that's not a number shouldn't produce a number." -- Abigail Topics of Interest "grep" and smart match should warn in void context ...
David Landgren
Jan 24, 2008 at 11:20 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 6-12 January 2008 "Um, I think you caused me negative work. I rather wanted "dtrace" support and it seemed that because of you I didn't have to write it." -- Nicholas ...
David Landgren
Jan 16, 2008 at 12:58 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 30 December 2007-5 January 2008 "That's now twice in this thread that I've been accused of favouring languages that I actually dislike [...] . I think the Java model of ...
David Landgren
Jan 11, 2008 at 1:36 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 22 December 2007-29 December 2007 "Remember, everyone is a beginner, but only for a small time." -- Abigail, on why you can't please everyone, everywhere, all the time. ...
David Landgren
Jan 5, 2008 at 2:36 pm
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"The Plan would be to release 5.10.0 on the 18th of December. Why the 18th? Read perlhist." -- Rafael Garcia Suarez About this summary ------------------ This is a trial run of a resumption of "This ...
Michael G Schwern
Dec 11, 2007 at 12:33 am
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This Week on perl5-porters - 4-10 December 2006 "This comment in mg.c scares me: "/* Not sure why the av can get freed ahead of its sv, but somehow it does */"" -- Marc Lehmann, uncovering ancient ...
David Landgren
Dec 15, 2006 at 10:07 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 27 November-3 December 2006 "So I don't really have an answer for you. When faced with a similar situation, I punted and did a PerlIO_fdopen(fileno(stdio)) instead of a ...
David Landgren
Dec 7, 2006 at 11:54 pm
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This Fortnight on perl5-porters - 13-26 November 2006 [we could] not increment the reference count (and hope the SV is still around when the lvalue subroutine is called) -- Gerard Goossen Hope and ...
David Landgren
Nov 30, 2006 at 10:53 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 6-12 November 2006 "*This is like sitting your mother down to teach her computers and beginning by explaining little endian vs big endian and the intimate details of ...
David Landgren
Nov 16, 2006 at 1:35 pm
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This Fortnight on perl5-porters - 23 October-5 November 2006 Yes, I complained to Corel, and they said "thank you for your insight as a valued customer, we forwarded this to our manager of customer ...
David Landgren
Nov 9, 2006 at 10:54 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 16-22 Octover 2006 "And if the best we can come up with is numeric error codes then I'm going to break out the bell bottoms and have a disco party, you groove machine." ...
David Landgren
Oct 27, 2006 at 11:45 am
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This Week on perl5-porters - 9-15 October 2006 "May I remind everybody my personal opinion, which is that I see little to null utility to style patches to C or perl code, but that they clobber ...
David Landgren
Oct 19, 2006 at 12:24 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 2-8 October 2006 Topics of Interest "I do not know what crazy things people have done in code I cannot see. But people are creative in strange ways, and I cause them ...
David Landgren
Oct 12, 2006 at 12:16 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 25 September-1 October 2006 "Well not since that time you thought that embedding perl was a good idea in the first place" -- Johnathon Stowe, commenting on Marc Lehmann ...
David Landgren
Oct 6, 2006 at 8:13 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 18-24 September 2006 If we fake times in our fake stat then fake futimes makes sense. But chown and chmod make little sense to me - only the current process can access ...
David Landgren
Sep 28, 2006 at 9:28 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 11-17 September 2006 "Now to move a huge pile of bugs out of my rt.cpan.org queue and into Randy's. THUD" -- Michael G. Schwern, making "MakeMaker" lighter. Topics of ...
David Landgren
Sep 22, 2006 at 9:28 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 1-10 September 2006 "Most version control systems have flexible commit hooks to automatically perform actions" -- Michael G Schwern "Obi Wan Perforce: This isn't the ...
David Landgren
Sep 15, 2006 at 12:03 pm
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This month on perl5-porters - August 2006 "Insistent rumors claim that we used to have Perl compilable with C++ -- I doubt it a bit, given the kind of problems I found when doing this latest cleanup ...
David Landgren
Sep 9, 2006 at 9:40 pm
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This Week on perl5-porters - 17-23 July 2006 "I'd like "perlcc" to die because it's an attractive nuisance. People keep finding this, finding it doesn't work, and posting "how can I make this work" ...
David Landgren
Jul 27, 2006 at 9:06 pm
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