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25	Indirect object syntax

I see that there is a general consensus that indirect object syntax is discouraged and should be removed from documentation examples. It is time to revisit Kent Fredric's proposal at ...

Ed Avis
May 20, 2016 at 10:32 am
May 31, 2016 at 9:28 pm

24	revert MG consting (Coro breakage) for 5.24?

Rik, I hadn't realised until recently that the Coro breakage caused by consting the MGF vtable array in commit v5.21.7-98-gc910fea, is still unresolved. I propose that we revert this commit for 5.24 ...

Dave Mitchell
May 3, 2016 at 6:34 pm
May 5, 2016 at 11:50 am

19	[perl #128213] No deprecation warning on literal left curly bracket in /.{/ etc

# New Ticket Created by Tom Wyant # Please include the string: [perl #128213] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Tom Wyant
May 22, 2016 at 8:15 pm
May 25, 2016 at 6:00 pm

18	The Great Pumpkin

When I was a kid, Halloween was always an exciting time of the year. One of the highlights of any Halloween was a Peanuts/Charlie Brown special called "The Great Pumpkin[1][2]" Each year, Linus would ...

Jesse Vincent
Oct 31, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Apr 30, 2016 at 7:53 am

18	[perl #127531] permit \escape on right hand side of my

Would rvalue use of ‘my \’ be governed by the experimental::refaliasing feature feature? Would they produce an experimental warning? -- Father Chrysostomos --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open ...

Father Chrysostomos via RT
May 18, 2016 at 4:52 am
May 30, 2016 at 3:13 am

17	perl 5.24.0 blockers

Let's get back to reviewing blockers. I'm looking forward to landing this plane! PREVIOUS BLOCKER COUNT: 13 CURRENT BLOCKER COUNT: 16 (but some are probably not blockers) * remove encoding.pm ...

Ricardo Signes
Mar 18, 2016 at 12:31 am
Mar 23, 2016 at 4:46 am

15	[perl #127810] Provide -Dfortify_inc Configure option to remove . from @INC

# New Ticket Created by "Todd Rinaldo" # Please include the string: [perl #127810] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Todd Rinaldo
Apr 1, 2016 at 12:01 am
May 17, 2016 at 5:48 pm

15	[perl #128225] substitution within (?{}) causes segmentation fault

# New Ticket Created by Daniel Șuteu # Please include the string: [perl #128225] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Daniel Șuteu
May 23, 2016 at 5:48 pm
May 30, 2016 at 9:13 pm

14	[perl #127773] Assertion failure in perl built with Dusecbacktrace

# New Ticket Created by Sergey Aleynikov # Please include the string: [perl #127773] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Sergey Aleynikov
Mar 23, 2016 at 6:24 pm
Mar 27, 2016 at 5:25 pm

13	[perl #128241] Deprecate /$empty_string/

# New Ticket Created by Father Chrysostomos # Please include the string: [perl #128241] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Father Chrysostomos
May 26, 2016 at 4:56 am
May 27, 2016 at 1:19 pm

12	perl-5.24.0-RC3 is now available

The Great Pumpkin is a Santa-Claus like figure. He does bring toys like Santa. But unlike Santa, who gives away toys because it's his job, he gives away toys because it's the right thing to do. -- ...

Ricardo Signes
Apr 27, 2016 at 1:05 am
May 10, 2016 at 1:01 pm

11	[perl #127999] Slowdown in split + list assign

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Apr 26, 2016 at 5:45 pm
May 2, 2016 at 4:36 pm

11	Perl 5.25.1 on May 20th

Hi everyone, As soon as the Perl release cycle enters a freeze, people start committing their work in branches awaiting a merge. As blead gets colder, hitting a full freeze, these start piling. Once ...

Sawyer X
May 12, 2016 at 9:31 pm
May 14, 2016 at 2:51 pm

11	5.24.0 + cpan

I started to create the software depots for HP-UX for 5.24.0, but … build /test went pretty OK This is perl 5, version 24, subversion 0 (v5.24.0) built for IA64.ARCHREV_0-thread-multi-LP64-ld t/h2ph ...

H.Merijn Brand
May 16, 2016 at 3:45 pm
May 18, 2016 at 12:26 pm

11	[perl #127993] Version control conflict markers

Patch attached. I followed gcc's example: + Specifically, we consider a run of 7 '<', '=' or ' ' characters + at the start of a line as a patch conflict marker. --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status ...

[email protected] via RT
May 21, 2016 at 8:27 am
May 23, 2016 at 2:04 am

10	perl v5.24.0 blockers, March 22 edition

PREVIOUS BLOCKER COUNT: 16 CURRENT BLOCKER COUNT: 8 (but really more like 7) * \N{} with empty braces https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=123417 Just waiting on Karl to deprecate, I believe. * ...

Ricardo Signes
Mar 23, 2016 at 2:27 am
Apr 1, 2016 at 12:27 pm

10	[perl #128113] [PATCH] upgrade Test-Simple in perl blead

Question for porters: 1 year ago, at an earlier stage of exodist's work on Test-Simple, our practice was to apply his patches directly to blead. The rationale for that was that this distro was so far ...

James E Keenan via RT
May 11, 2016 at 2:18 am
May 17, 2016 at 5:24 pm

9	wording of perldiag's implicit close warning text

last year I added an entry to the 5.22.0 perldelta that described the new Warning: unable to close filehandle %s properly: %s warning in more detail. I propose that that text gets added to the ...

Dave Mitchell
Mar 23, 2016 at 4:15 pm
Mar 25, 2016 at 9:22 pm

9	RFC: refuse to change into an unsupported locale

Perl supports most single-byte locales, plus UTF-8 locales. It does not support any other multi-byte locales, such as are found for some East Asian languages. On some platforms, just switching into ...

Karl Williamson
Apr 23, 2016 at 10:42 pm
Apr 28, 2016 at 4:53 pm

9	Re: [perl #127855] Slowdown in m//g on COW strings of certain lengths

This is causing the breakage described in [perl #127915] $=x~0 segfaults Perl 5.24.0-RC1-2-gde1d2c7 Basically by making SvGROW(sv,len) include a calculation involving (len+2), the calculation can ...

Dave Mitchell
Apr 28, 2016 at 9:20 am
May 3, 2016 at 3:46 pm

9	[perl #128093] Broken build of perl5.24.0-RC5 on Mac OS X (10.7)

# New Ticket Created by Mojca Miklavec # Please include the string: [perl #128093] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Mojca Miklavec
May 7, 2016 at 10:56 am
May 17, 2016 at 9:49 am

9	Adding stuff to mathoms.c is now simplified, generalized

With commit 5f81fa4069cb15ccd77b1c4253c870df84c1788a, moving something to mathoms.c is now simplified. Previously no C function prototype was generated, so you had to add one yourself at the ...

Karl Williamson
May 13, 2016 at 4:34 am
May 23, 2016 at 4:08 pm

8	Re: [PATCH] Replacement patch to upgrade core to version.pm 0.9914

* Ricardo Signes [2016-03-05T17:20:01] This should be applied. -- rjbs

Ricardo Signes
Mar 10, 2016 at 7:36 pm
Mar 20, 2016 at 5:44 pm

8	[perl #125296] CvFILE on threaded, and gv_fetchfile on all perls, burn mad memory

I fixed most of that #line problem in commit "dont realloc CopFILE if filename stays the same in "#line 1234 "file.pm""" ------------------------------------- use Inline C = <<'EOS'; void ...

bulk88 via RT
Mar 11, 2016 at 8:03 pm
Mar 31, 2016 at 6:57 pm

8	[perl #128111] [5.24.0] gettimeofday.t fails "time left should be zero"

# New Ticket Created by Jörg Plate # Please include the string: [perl #128111] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Jörg Plate
May 10, 2016 at 2:47 pm
May 19, 2016 at 11:43 pm

8	[perl #128170] Assert fail in regcomp.c with no other symptoms: perl -e '/(?<=/'

# New Ticket Created by Dan Collins # Please include the string: [perl #128170] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Dan Collins
May 17, 2016 at 10:03 pm
May 24, 2016 at 5:13 am

8	Build failed in Jenkins: perl5-win32 #2440

See <http://perl5.git.perl.org:8080/job/perl5-win32/2440/ ------------------------------------------ [...truncated 6753 lines...] ../ext/PerlIO-encoding/t/threads.t ................................ ...

Dennis+p5p-jenkins
May 27, 2016 at 7:28 pm
May 31, 2016 at 9:47 pm

7	sub signature and lexical types

One thing I'd like to add to subroutine signatures is optional types. Perl already supports my Foo $x; which currently isn't made much use of in core, apart from with 'use fields', which allows a ...

Dave Mitchell
Mar 23, 2016 at 2:48 pm
Mar 24, 2016 at 7:38 am

7	Perl 5 Porters Mailing List Summary: April 14th-27th

Blog: http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2016/04/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-april-14th-27th.html Twitter ...

Sawyer X
Apr 27, 2016 at 1:15 pm
Apr 29, 2016 at 1:58 pm

7	Perl 5 Commit Summary

Perl 5 commit summary, activity since Saturday Current branch blead 23 commits. 5 unique authors. 2 unique committers. 23 files changed, 144 insertions(+), 146 deletions(-) Thanks, applied: Ricardo ...

Perl 5 commit summary
May 4, 2016 at 1:14 am
May 28, 2016 at 1:08 am

7	[perl #128095] Failed test dist/IO/t/cachepropagate-unix on OS X with Perl 5.22 (regression from 5.20)

# New Ticket Created by Mojca Miklavec # Please include the string: [perl #128095] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Mojca Miklavec
May 7, 2016 at 2:40 pm
May 17, 2016 at 11:35 am

7	Build failed in Jenkins: perl5-win32 #2359

See <http://perl5.git.perl.org:8080/job/perl5-win32/2359/changes Changes: [rjbs] document the ?pair option to beforemaintrelease ------------------------------------------ [...truncated 6445 ...

Dennis+p5p-jenkins
May 11, 2016 at 8:20 pm
May 14, 2016 at 3:42 pm

7	[perl #128242] Aliasing via sub signature

# New Ticket Created by Father Chrysostomos # Please include the string: [perl #128242] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Father Chrysostomos
May 26, 2016 at 5:16 am
May 26, 2016 at 8:04 pm

6	[perl #114576] check if %hash 500x times slower than if keys %hash

I’m reopening this, as there are still unresolved issues. -- Father Chrysostomos --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=114576

Father Chrysostomos via RT
Aug 30, 2012 at 3:44 am
Mar 28, 2016 at 4:27 pm

6	perl -V: list build options one per line?

Currently perl -V produces output like: Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: DEBUGGING HAS_TIMES MULTIPLICITY PERLIO_LAYERS PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV ...

Dave Mitchell
Dec 8, 2015 at 3:22 pm
Mar 27, 2016 at 4:50 am

6	[perl #127746] charset.t fails on Solaris

# New Ticket Created by Karl Williamson # Please include the string: [perl #127746] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Karl Williamson
Mar 19, 2016 at 10:54 pm
Apr 3, 2016 at 8:55 am

6	generated docs files not under source control?

I was wondering why we .gitignore files like pod/perlapi.pod and pod/perlintern.pod. I know they are autogenerated, but I don't understand why they are different from the files that are autogenerated ...

Demerphq
Mar 26, 2016 at 12:12 pm
Mar 26, 2016 at 10:23 pm

6	[perl #127981] [PATCH] Deep recursion warning with %Module::CoreList::version

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Niko Tyni
Apr 24, 2016 at 7:35 pm
Apr 28, 2016 at 2:06 pm

6	[perl #128189] Assert fail in sv.c with no further symptoms: e t''/$0{\0}

# New Ticket Created by Dan Collins # Please include the string: [perl #128189] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Dan Collins
May 19, 2016 at 9:45 pm
May 20, 2016 at 12:18 am

6	Whither encoding::warnings?

Whither encoding::warnings? I tried removing ${^ENCODING}, but tests for encoding::warnings fail. See the sprout/encoding branch. Before working on this any further, I need to ask what the plan is ...

Father Chrysostomos
May 21, 2016 at 7:37 pm
May 24, 2016 at 5:41 pm

6	[perl #128295] Strange bug with -Dprefix=/usr and -Dversiononly

# New Ticket Created by Father Chrysostomos # Please include the string: [perl #128295] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Father Chrysostomos
May 30, 2016 at 9:30 pm
May 31, 2016 at 8:05 pm

5	podlators 4.07 released

I'm pleased to announce release 4.07 of podlators. podlators contains Pod::Man and Pod::Text modules which convert POD input to *roff source output, suitable for man pages, or plain text. It also ...

Russ Allbery
Mar 21, 2016 at 2:27 am
Mar 21, 2016 at 3:00 pm

5	[perl #128089] [PATCH] fix Module::CoreList::is_core bounds checking for specific module versions

# New Ticket Created by Karen Etheridge # Please include the string: [perl #128089] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Karen Etheridge
May 6, 2016 at 9:20 pm
May 17, 2016 at 8:41 pm

5	[perl #128096] use open doesn't affect magic diamond operator

# New Ticket Created by <span class="m_body_email_addr" title="f647420229636bb7c7e65f659b8d2b21" [email protected]</span # Please include the string: [perl #128096] # in the subject line of all future ...

Ambs @ cpan . org
May 7, 2016 at 8:06 pm
May 17, 2016 at 5:16 am

5	perl v5.24.0 is now available!

As I sit here, and oftentimes, I wish I could be monarch of a desert land I could devote and dedicate forever To the truths we keep coming back and back to. So desert it would have to be, so walled ...

Ricardo Signes
May 9, 2016 at 11:39 am
May 10, 2016 at 11:44 am

5	Build failed in Jenkins: perl5-win32 #2378

See <http://perl5.git.perl.org:8080/job/perl5-win32/2378/changes Changes: [arc] perlbug: Allow noninteractive use in test mode (-t option) [arc] perlbug: quit main loop on empty answer / eof in test ...

Dennis+p5p-jenkins
May 16, 2016 at 2:04 pm
May 17, 2016 at 2:17 am

5	Build failed in Jenkins: perl5-win32 #2386

See <http://perl5.git.perl.org:8080/job/perl5-win32/2386/changes Changes: [tony] better glibc i_modulo bug handling ------------------------------------------ [...truncated 193899 lines...] 'f' is ...

Dennis+p5p-jenkins
May 17, 2016 at 8:02 am
May 17, 2016 at 12:42 pm

5	[perl #57512] Implicit close()s are silently unchecked for error

Well, it's almost time for 5.25.1, which this ticket blocks. The final message says it is so that final considerations can be done now. What might these be? -- Karl Williamson --- via perlbug ...

Karl Williamson via RT
May 17, 2016 at 9:46 pm
May 23, 2016 at 2:37 pm

5	[perl #128227] vfork should be used for spawning external processes

# New Ticket Created by # Please include the string: [perl #128227] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128227 This ...

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May 23, 2016 at 11:54 pm
May 26, 2016 at 7:40 am

5	Build failed in Jenkins: perl5-win32 #2434

See <http://perl5.git.perl.org:8080/job/perl5-win32/2434/changes Changes: [khw] Pod::Functions/Functions_pm.PL: Fix pod error [khw] PathTools: fix Pod::Checker warning for pod [khw] ...

Dennis+p5p-jenkins
May 25, 2016 at 4:12 am
May 27, 2016 at 6:47 pm

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