perl5-porters@perl.org discussions for November 2000

185	Re: [ID 20001102.007] perl@7524 not OK in POSIX extension on

That doesn't appear to be the problem. For example, in verbose mode using 7573 I get: [.LIB]FTMP-POSIX........1..7 Use of uninitialized value in exists at ../lib/DynaLoader.pm line 83. Use of ...

Craig A. Berry
Nov 7, 2000 at 6:12 am
Nov 7, 2000 at 9:23 pm

48	IDEA: more for-like map and grep?

While doodling with an Eternity Project (TM) of mine it came to me that it would be nice to be able to alias also other variables than the usual $_ when using map() and grep(), like we can in ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Nov 21, 2000 at 1:10 am
Nov 23, 2000 at 11:44 pm

35	[ID 20001130.011] expression parsing bug ?

This is a bug report for perl from jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de, generated with the help of perlbug 1.33 running under perl v5.7.0. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ...

Helmut Jarausch
Nov 30, 2000 at 8:09 pm
Dec 2, 2000 at 5:31 pm

32	[jens: perl@7826 - Don't call fclose on sockets]

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Jens Hamisch
Nov 23, 2000 at 12:06 pm
Nov 24, 2000 at 7:49 pm

25	[PATCH 5.7.0] Charnames :terse

This is the update to charnames.pm which I promised a long time ago. As usual, a lot of additional work may be needed: code the rules for transliteration of the upper latin-1, of greek, IPA, hebrew, ...

Ilya Zakharevich
Nov 23, 2000 at 2:57 am
Dec 2, 2000 at 7:51 am

23	[ID 20001109.008] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +DEVEL7612 on i386-freebsd-64all 4.0-release (UNINSTALLED)

This is a build failure report for perl from nick@talking.bollo.cx, generated with the help of perlbug 1.33 running under perl v5.7.0. ...

Nicholas Clark
Nov 9, 2000 at 3:53 pm
Nov 13, 2000 at 12:04 am

21	new subs.pm -- allows for prototypes and attributes

Below sig -- please let me know what you think. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan japhy@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ PerlMonth - An Online Perl Magazine http://www.perlmonth.com/ The Perl Archive - ...

Jeff Pinyan
Nov 17, 2000 at 2:27 am
Nov 21, 2000 at 6:56 pm

20	Not OK: perl5.7.0 +DEVEL7706 +Duseperlio on AIX4.[23]

Nick, hope I didn't mislead you with my previous OK report for perlio, for at that time I did *not* Configure with -Duseperlio :-( As you can see in my other OK reports, HP-UX 11.00, HP-UX 10.20 and ...

H . Merijn Brand
Nov 16, 2000 at 4:45 pm
Nov 22, 2000 at 11:22 pm

19	[ID 20001102.005] Reproducable segfault

This is a bug report for perl from S@mSmith.net, generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The following: ...

Sam Smith
Nov 2, 2000 at 6:13 pm
Jan 9, 2012 at 4:39 pm

19	rsync'ed patches vs. rsync'ed source

I rsync the patches instead of the sources because these can be applied to all my systems, whereas rsynced files are rynced to one system only. I've got two points 1. I notice quite often that the ...

H . Merijn Brand
Nov 1, 2000 at 4:56 pm
Nov 9, 2000 at 3:13 pm

15	numeric locale in sv_vcatpvfn()

Just coming back to try and sort out Perl_sv_vcatpvfn, and I notice that since the snapshot I was previously working from, the change below has occurred. Was this chunk supposed to be simplified in ...

Hugo
Nov 26, 2000 at 3:29 pm
Nov 28, 2000 at 9:44 am

14	What was it layers were for again ?

Now that the snapping alligators are pacified we can get back to draining the swamp. That is - now that USE_PERLIO seems to be behaving itself (mostly) on UNIX/Win32 - I/we can start using it to ...

Nick Ing-Simmons
Nov 28, 2000 at 4:10 pm
Nov 29, 2000 at 12:10 pm

14

perl@7777

http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl@7777.tgz http://www.hietaniemi.org/jarkko/perl@7777.tgz ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/snap/perl@7777.tgz This snapshot contains the Release Candidate for CPAN.pm ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Nov 20, 2000 at 4:30 pm
Nov 28, 2000 at 7:28 am

14	[PATCH: perl@7795] fix comp/require.t for EBCDIC by avoiding utf8

FWIW I note that the new va_dcl stuff appears a bit messy on OS/390 where a run of `sh Configure -Dusedevel -des` contains: ----------- Checking if your /usr/local/bin/make program sets $(MAKE)... ...

Peter Prymmer
Nov 23, 2000 at 12:33 am
Nov 23, 2000 at 2:01 pm

14	PerlIO - what next ?

Now that perlio is in the mainline I _really_ need to know what to do next in terms of making it useful. This means knowing what it "should" look like to perl5: Do you want getc($fh) return character ...

Nick Ing-Simmons
Nov 8, 2000 at 1:50 pm
Nov 9, 2000 at 2:44 pm

14	[ID 20001106.006] find2perl generated scripts issue new lstat() on filehandle _ warning

This is a bug report for perl from dcd@tc.fluke.com, generated with the help of perlbug 1.32 running under perl v5.7.0. ----------------------------------------------------------------- [Please enter ...

David Dyck
Nov 7, 2000 at 6:45 am
Nov 9, 2000 at 6:29 am

13	Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +DEVEL7825 on aix 4.2.1.0 (UNINSTALLED)

This is not posted to perlbug, cause it has already been reported before (much like 20000324.033 and 20000324.023, which are open for a _long_ time already, and nobody seems to be able to fix it, or ...

H . Merijn Brand
Nov 24, 2000 at 8:32 am
Dec 5, 2000 at 9:20 am

13	[ID 20001103.002] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +DEVEL7523 on os2-64int-ld 2.30 (UNINSTALLED)

This is a build failure report for perl from sthoenna@efn.org, generated with the help of perlbug 1.32 running under perl v5.7.0. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ...

Sthoenna
Nov 3, 2000 at 11:32 pm
Nov 8, 2000 at 1:03 pm

13	Re: [ID 20001102.007] perl@7524 not OK in POSIX extension on

That doesn't appear to be the problem. For example, in verbose mode using 7573 I get: [.LIB]FTMP-POSIX........1..7 Use of uninitialized value in exists at ../lib/DynaLoader.pm line 83. Use of ...

Craig A. Berry
Nov 7, 2000 at 6:16 am
Nov 7, 2000 at 7:34 pm

12	README.aix

Since we keep complaining to AIX users about them using an old compiler, I've added the way to upgrade to README.aix. Is this too verbose? *** README.aix Mon Oct 23 14:07:28 2000 --- README.aix.new ...

H . Merijn Brand
Nov 2, 2000 at 4:56 pm
Nov 27, 2000 at 2:36 pm

12	[ID 20001114.002] Code-Cleanups concerning SOCKS5 and Solaris

Hi, I've added some code-cleanups to the files perlsdio.h sv.c doio.c These fix warnings reported by the Sun Forte C 6.0 compiler and errors reported by gcc 2.95.1, when SOCKS5 support is configured ...

Jens Hamisch
Nov 14, 2000 at 10:38 am
Nov 17, 2000 at 4:16 am

12	Reference counts on self-tied objects

In my Perl-RPM package, it's been recently pointed out to me that the object destructors aren't getting called when the object undef'd, but rather at the end of the script (well, the bug report ...

Randy J. Ray
Nov 1, 2000 at 12:12 am
Nov 6, 2000 at 10:21 am

11	cpp broken?

I downloaded perl@7826.tgz and found that, like the last couple of development snapshots, cpp seems to be missing. I have included the output of -V Cheers, Ben Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 ...

Ben Tilly
Nov 25, 2000 at 7:07 pm
Nov 29, 2000 at 10:19 pm

11	patches mostly for Win32

After ./nostdio.h became strictier some changes should be done to compile Perl for Win32. Tested for Borland C++ compiler. In my opinion the only suggested change that can break something is change ...

Konovalov, Vadim
Nov 20, 2000 at 8:08 am
Nov 21, 2000 at 7:53 pm

11	[PATCH 5.7.0] make regcomp reenterable

<GRUMBLE Why such a trivial patch should wait for me to do it?! Doing a similar edit of regexec() is left as an exercise to the reader. </GRUMBLE In addition to keeping the info on stack, this patch ...

Ilya Zakharevich
Nov 18, 2000 at 1:35 am
Nov 20, 2000 at 8:37 pm

11	Patching on devel track malfuncioning

When I apply patches from rpository in order, I get rejects and a MANIFEST conflict. 1) Patch 7632 says Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Skipping patch. 1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- ...

Andreas J. Koenig
Nov 15, 2000 at 8:31 am
Nov 16, 2000 at 2:08 pm

10	[ID 20001128.002] what's the point of example code if it is buggy?

This is a bug report for perl from nick@talking.bollo.cx, generated with the help of perlbug 1.33 running under perl v5.7.0. ----------------------------------------------------------------- [Please ...

Nicholas Clark
Nov 28, 2000 at 11:21 am
Dec 16, 2000 at 1:52 pm

10	[PATCH] doop.c - UTF8 tr///

Unicode tr/// is broken; this patch doesn't fix it, but it helps. There are two caveats: i) I've not looked at UTF8 tr///s, which is the little bit of code above the piece I'm patching here. It ...

Simon Cozens
Nov 18, 2000 at 6:49 pm
Nov 21, 2000 at 2:32 pm

9

perl@7930

http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl@7930.tgz http://www.hietaniemi.org/jarkko/perl@7930.tgz ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/snap/perl@7930.tgz Changes since the last: [ 7929] By: jhi on 2000/11/29 ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Nov 29, 2000 at 6:06 pm
Dec 4, 2000 at 9:08 pm

9	[ID 20001129.007] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +DEVEL7928 on VMS_AXP V7.1 (UNINSTALLED)

This is a build failure report for perl from pvhp@vale.forte.com, generated with the help of perlbug 1.33 running under perl v5.7.0. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ...

Peter Prymmer
Nov 29, 2000 at 11:14 pm
Nov 30, 2000 at 8:22 pm

9	[PATCH] Re: [p5p] [PATCH perlpod.pod] Digging into the =head

Today around 10:44am, Brad Appleton hammered out this masterpiece: : On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:28:15AM -0500, Casey R. Tweten wrote: : Should I send a patch that just documents =head3 and =head4? : ...

Casey R. Tweten
Nov 16, 2000 at 5:03 pm
Nov 17, 2000 at 2:06 pm

9	[ID 20001114.001] use utf8;use charnames; is incorrect for \x{80}-\x{FF}

This is a bug report for perl from andrew@tki.org.nz, generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.006. ----------------------------------------------------------------- [Please enter ...

Andrew McNaughton
Nov 14, 2000 at 8:08 am
Nov 14, 2000 at 9:40 pm

8	Why slow down the REx engine?

I looked through the "This Week on p5p" summary, and see that there is considerate work going on to slow down the REx engine. Why? Why move the support for polymorphic UTF8 into the REx engine at ...

Ilya Zakharevich
Nov 21, 2000 at 9:22 pm
Dec 1, 2000 at 5:28 am

8	[ID 20001128.005] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +DEVEL7891 on i686-linux 2.2.16-22 (UNINSTALLED)

This is a build failure report for perl from rjray@tzimisce.soma.redhat.com, generated with the help of perlbug 1.33 running under perl v5.7.0. ...

Randy J. Ray
Nov 28, 2000 at 8:36 pm
Nov 29, 2000 at 3:24 pm

8	Plan to try again with Carp

As I mentioned a long time ago, Carp's internal semantics make little sense. There is also the possibility for endless loops if you have circular inheritance as this shows: package A; @ISA = ("A"); ...

Ben Tilly
Nov 25, 2000 at 10:02 pm
Nov 27, 2000 at 8:01 pm

8	[ID 20001122.003] PERL5OPT interpreted strangely

This is a bug report for perl from mjd@plover.plover.com, generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0. ----------------------------------------------------------------- [Please ...

Mjd
Nov 22, 2000 at 2:46 pm
Nov 24, 2000 at 5:22 pm

8	[ID 20001107.007] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +DEVEL7572 on PA-RISC1.1 10.20 (UNINSTALLED)

This is a build failure report for perl from urban@spica.ast.lmco.com, generated with the help of perlbug 1.32 running under perl v5.7.0. ...

'David Scott Urban
Nov 7, 2000 at 7:57 pm
Nov 13, 2000 at 4:15 pm

8	[ID 20001109.004] OK: perl v5.7.0 +DEVEL7612 on i86pc-solaris 2.8 (UNINSTALLED)

This is a success report for perl from lupe@alanya.lupe-christoph.de, generated with the help of perlbug 1.33 running under perl v5.7.0. Perl reported to build OK on this system. Tests OK with both ...

Lupe Christoph
Nov 9, 2000 at 12:03 pm
Nov 10, 2000 at 3:30 pm

8	An easy suggestion for File::Spec

Hi, wouldn't it be cool if File::Spec provided to gloabal variables, for example $sepclass and $fileclass, available for optional import and representing character classes? The $sepclass for unix ...

Alexander Farber (EED)
Nov 2, 2000 at 10:58 am
Nov 2, 2000 at 4:05 pm

7	[ID 20001128.006] utf8 messes global match array context

This is a bug report for perl from jhi@kosh.hut.fi, generated with the help of perlbug 1.33 running under perl v5.7.0. ----------------------------------------------------------------- [Please enter ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Nov 29, 2000 at 4:55 am
Nov 30, 2000 at 7:46 pm

7	[ID 20001123.008] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +DEVEL7837 on os2-64int-ld 2.30 (UNINSTALLED)

This is a build failure report for perl from sthoenna@efn.org, generated with the help of perlbug 1.33 running under perl v5.7.0. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ...

Allen Ropbert Scott-Thoennes
Nov 23, 2000 at 6:49 pm
Nov 28, 2000 at 9:18 pm

7	[ID 20001127.002] const subs hurt under debugger

This is a bug report for perl from k@ak-71.mind.de, generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.007. ----------------------------------------------------------------- [Please enter ...

Andreas J. Koenig
Nov 27, 2000 at 11:24 am
Nov 28, 2000 at 7:07 pm

7	[ID 20001107.014] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +DEVEL7594 on dos-djgpp djgpp

This is a build failure report for perl from pjfarley@banet.net, generated with the help of perlbug 1.32 running under perl v5.7.0. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ...

Peter J. Farley III
Nov 8, 2000 at 2:38 am
Nov 23, 2000 at 9:15 pm

7	[PATCH] Evolution of h2xs [WAS: Re: PATCH subs.pm]

Today around 1:47pm, barries hammered out this masterpiece: : On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 05:12:54PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote: : : Part of the problem is that, while it would be nice if all the tests ...

Casey R. Tweten
Nov 21, 2000 at 7:51 pm
Nov 22, 2000 at 11:24 pm

7	[ID 20001112.008] perlio.c's PerlIO_getpos ingores error return

This is a bug report for perl from nick@talking.bollo.cx, generated with the help of perlbug 1.32 running under perl v5.7.0. ----------------------------------------------------------------- [Please ...

Nicholas Clark
Nov 12, 2000 at 10:40 pm
Nov 13, 2000 at 8:22 pm

7	[ID 20001112.007] sfio's sftell isn't ftell

This is a bug report for perl from nick@talking.bollo.cx, generated with the help of perlbug 1.32 running under perl v5.7.0. ----------------------------------------------------------------- [Please ...

Nicholas Clark
Nov 12, 2000 at 10:40 pm
Nov 13, 2000 at 2:03 pm

7	[PATCH] README.solaris

This patch adds README.solaris to the perl distribution. It also removes a few now-redundant sections of INSTALL and hints/solaris_2.sh. I also patched pod/buildtoc.PL and pod/perl.pod to know about ...

Andy Dougherty
Nov 10, 2000 at 5:17 pm
Nov 13, 2000 at 1:55 am

7	[PATCH] Fixing heading limitations in Pod::Man

This patch will make and C<=head greater than 2 act just like a level 2 heading. *** lib/Pod/Man.pm.orig Thu Nov 9 11:35:19 2000 --- lib/Pod/Man.pm Thu Nov 9 11:35:50 2000 *************** *** 487,493 ...

Casey R. Tweten
Nov 9, 2000 at 4:42 pm
Nov 11, 2000 at 10:17 am

7	Compatibility between Perl versions

I have an existing bit of XS code which worked under Perl 5.005, which I want to upgrade to Perl 5.6, while retaining 5.005 compatibility. The big issue is all the THX-style calls, as well as ...

Moore, Paul
Nov 9, 2000 at 1:42 pm
Nov 10, 2000 at 9:21 am

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perl@7595

http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl@7595.tgz http://www.hietaniemi.org/jarkko/perl@7595.tgz ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/snap/perl@7595.tgz perlio working now better (the not-working in Digital UNIX ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Nov 7, 2000 at 8:38 pm
Nov 9, 2000 at 2:46 am

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