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  • Aaron Crane came up to me at YAPC::EU and asked about some code he'd written (Array::Each::Override) that lets you use each, keys and values to iterate over arrays. Two things stuck in my head 1: ...
    Nicholas ClarkNicholas Clark
    Sep 1, 2007 at 12:53 pm
    Sep 26, 2007 at 1:20 am
  • Hello, For some time I was wondering how it would be optimal to incorporate utf8 in filenames in perl. The problem, as it seems to me, is that unicode support in this regard is not orthogonal in ...
    Dmitry KarasikDmitry Karasik
    Sep 18, 2007 at 8:04 pm
    Sep 25, 2007 at 7:00 pm
  • Porters, We're rapidly getting toward a real 5.10, when all the stuff that's been getting worked on will be released to the world and more or less set in stone for the next ten years. If there are ...
    Ricardo SIGNESRicardo SIGNES
    Sep 3, 2007 at 5:24 pm
    Sep 8, 2007 at 4:44 am
  • Hi all, and thanks for all the work. I think it's time to fullfill the plan and start thinking about a stable release. Here are my concerns and the TO-DO list. - Dual live modules: there are lots of ...
    Rafael Garcia-SuarezRafael Garcia-Suarez
    Sep 3, 2007 at 8:29 am
    Sep 13, 2007 at 1:05 am
  • Hi, in many cases while I am teaching Perl for beginners who are not native English speakers I notice that they have trouble understanding the error messages and warnings. There are two thing that ...
    Gabor SzaboGabor Szabo
    Sep 2, 2007 at 8:13 am
    Sep 12, 2007 at 8:59 pm
  • There are still a few modules having issues with Perl 5.10-tobe that are all OK with Perl 5.8.8. Here's a few to start looking into. Danga::Socket Devel::Arena DBM::Deep Math::Pari Term::ReadPassword ...
    Steve PetersSteve Peters
    Sep 12, 2007 at 4:10 pm
    Sep 15, 2007 at 10:54 pm
  • Hello Ken, Here is another step in getting Module::Build going on VMS. In lib/Module/Build/Base.pm: The code to merge the destination dir with the default directories needed fixing, as it was ...
    John E. MalmbergJohn E. Malmberg
    Sep 14, 2007 at 5:28 am
    Oct 1, 2007 at 1:29 pm
  • While there are still some CPANPLUS tests that are not working on VMS, these patches improve things. Note that the tests require that the symbol "PERL" be set up as a foreign command for the ...
    John E. MalmbergJohn E. Malmberg
    Sep 2, 2007 at 10:23 pm
    Oct 4, 2007 at 1:24 pm
  • I feel we have sorted out all major issues, apart from a few compilation or testing nits. Is this the right time for a code freeze for 5.10 ?
    Rafael Garcia-SuarezRafael Garcia-Suarez
    Sep 29, 2007 at 8:19 am
    Oct 3, 2007 at 3:18 pm
  • # New Ticket Created by srezic@cpan.org # Please include the string: [perl #45605] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    Srezic @ cpan . orgSrezic @ cpan . org
    Sep 20, 2007 at 9:45 pm
    Sep 25, 2007 at 8:57 am
  • # New Ticket Created by Zefram # Please include the string: [perl #45383] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    ZeframZefram
    Sep 11, 2007 at 10:23 pm
    Apr 30, 2008 at 7:47 am
  • # New Ticket Created by Zefram # Please include the string: [perl #45673] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    ZeframZefram
    Sep 23, 2007 at 2:30 am
    Aug 27, 2009 at 10:35 am
  • I want to use state vars for file iterators like in use strict; use feature qw(state); sub lister { open state $fh, "<", "file" or die $!; print scalar <$fh ; eof $fh and close $fh; } lister(), ...
    Dintelmann, PeterDintelmann, Peter
    Sep 19, 2007 at 11:35 am
    Nov 13, 2007 at 10:12 pm
  • Hi Graham, Hi Porters, slightly more than 2 years ago I suggested a patch to add support for shmat() and shmdt() to IPC::SysV. About one month later, I resent my message. I never got a reply to ...
    Marcus Holland-MoritzMarcus Holland-Moritz
    Sep 24, 2007 at 9:46 pm
    Oct 15, 2007 at 6:32 pm
  • Currently in 5.10nearly we have the keyword state, but no STATE blocks, explicit or implicit. So things like this ./perl -Ilib -wlE 'sub bar {warn}; sub baz {state $foo = bar}; baz; baz' assign to ...
    Nicholas ClarkNicholas Clark
    Sep 4, 2007 at 7:09 pm
    Sep 9, 2007 at 11:07 pm
  • I'm reading the docs for mro for the first time and came across the section on PERFORMANCE CONSIDERATIONS... Specifying the mro type of a class before setting C<@ISA will be faster than the other way ...
    Michael G SchwernMichael G Schwern
    Sep 9, 2007 at 10:16 pm
    Sep 12, 2007 at 8:08 am
  • I've somehow broken Perl's OO mechanism. When calling through a blessed reference, it is not finding (nor, apparently, searching) methods in "Base" or ancestral classes.... Not if this is "a" or ...
    Linda WLinda W
    Sep 29, 2007 at 9:25 pm
    Oct 6, 2007 at 9:19 am
  • http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/src/Test-Simple-0.71.tar.gz The big change here? No more sort_bug.t. Bye bye 90% of my spurious bug reports. It was testing two deprecated functions and tended to hit ...
    Michael G SchwernMichael G Schwern
    Sep 14, 2007 at 3:51 am
    Sep 20, 2007 at 3:00 am
  • # New Ticket Created by srezic@cpan.org # Please include the string: [perl #45513] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    Srezic @ cpan . orgSrezic @ cpan . org
    Sep 18, 2007 at 8:31 pm
    Oct 4, 2007 at 4:00 pm
  • 1..16 ok 1 - Win32::DomainName() not ok 2 - - checking returned domain # Failed test ' - checking returned domain' # at ext/Win32/t/Names.t line 19. # undef # doesn't match ...
    Jerry D. HeddenJerry D. Hedden
    Sep 15, 2007 at 1:08 am
    Sep 20, 2007 at 8:27 pm
  • I would consider this bug a showstopper. While the supplied script uses threads to evoke the bug, it seems to me that the memory corruption problem could occur even with non-threaded scripts. (Or am ...
    Jerry D. HeddenJerry D. Hedden
    Sep 5, 2007 at 12:14 pm
    Oct 10, 2007 at 4:26 pm
  • ../ext/B/t/optree_specials.t............FAILED 7 emitting black smoke with UTF-8 locales? -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Smoke [5.10.0] 31983 FAIL(F) OSF1 V5.1 (EV6/4 cpu) Date: Thu, 27 ...
    Jarkko HietaniemiJarkko Hietaniemi
    Sep 27, 2007 at 11:25 am
    Sep 29, 2007 at 10:52 am
  • ISTM that this would be a handy shortcut : if (defined("foo") eq "foo") {print "DWIM"} it wouldnt work as expected for ugly code like if (defined 2 == 1) {}, but thats too ugly to be defensible ...
    Jim CromieJim Cromie
    Sep 7, 2007 at 2:38 am
    Sep 10, 2007 at 5:15 pm
  • Remove references to ld2 as it has been removed. Document differences between $^E and Win32::GetLastError() under Cygwin.
    Jerry D. HeddenJerry D. Hedden
    Sep 25, 2007 at 3:26 am
    Sep 27, 2007 at 3:48 pm
  • I don't like the warning from C<use 5.10.0 and I don't like C<use 5.010 - it doesn't say what I mean. I some of my modules I have used C<use 5.006; use 5.8.x; as a portable way of way of C<use 5.8.x ...
    Robin BarkerRobin Barker
    Sep 18, 2007 at 11:49 am
    Sep 26, 2007 at 12:47 pm
  • I'm not quite comfortable about the ABI we're about to bake in with the MRO meta structure: typedef enum { MRO_DFS, /* 0 */ MRO_C3 /* 1 */ } mro_alg; struct mro_meta { AV *mro_linear_dfs; /* cached ...
    Nicholas ClarkNicholas Clark
    Sep 10, 2007 at 3:43 pm
    Sep 26, 2007 at 10:30 am
  • [snip] That doesn't look good :( $ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 ./perl -e '1' perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = "en_US.UTF-8", LANG = (unset) ...
    Abe TimmermanAbe Timmerman
    Sep 22, 2007 at 7:56 pm
    Sep 25, 2007 at 9:01 am
  • With a current blead-perl snapshot, I'm getting the following errors in make test on Solaris 8: Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail List of Failed ...
    Andy DoughertyAndy Dougherty
    Sep 13, 2007 at 9:43 pm
    Sep 22, 2007 at 12:59 am
  • The attached patch looks big and scary especially this close to a RC (so little bird told me), but the scariness is illusory. Most of the patch consists of turning utils/Makefile into ...
    Jarkko HietaniemiJarkko Hietaniemi
    Sep 14, 2007 at 12:28 am
    Sep 19, 2007 at 8:42 am
  • # New Ticket Created by Zefram # Please include the string: [perl #45133] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    ZeframZefram
    Sep 3, 2007 at 1:29 am
    Sep 12, 2007 at 6:21 pm
  • Uhhh, it seems that my recent reentr.pl patch broke threaded builds... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Smoke [5.9.5] 31775 FAIL(m) OSF1 V5.1 (EV6/4 cpu) Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 06:05:47 ...
    Jarkko HietaniemiJarkko Hietaniemi
    Sep 1, 2007 at 12:21 pm
    Sep 4, 2007 at 8:00 am
  • The "push onto @ISA once" patch to base.pm had an unintended change. http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse/p/31851 The "don't push to @ISA if it already is one" logic is now ignored... ...
    Michael G SchwernMichael G Schwern
    Sep 17, 2007 at 9:31 pm
    Sep 25, 2007 at 2:23 am
  • I'm sure id did behave somewhere not too long ago: nb09:/pro/3gl/CPAN/perl-current 125 zcat xx.gz line 1 line 2 ne 3 line 4 line 6 line 7 nb09:/pro/3gl/CPAN/perl-current 126 cat xx.pl #!/pro/bin/perl ...
    H.Merijn BrandH.Merijn Brand
    Sep 20, 2007 at 8:57 pm
    Sep 21, 2007 at 2:32 pm
  • With recent bleadperls I get lots of warnings from CPAN.pm's testfile 31sessions.t. Tracing back shows that Archive::Tar line 561 calls File::Spec- catpath( $cwd_vol, File::Spec- catdir( @cwd, @dirs ...
    Andreas J. KoenigAndreas J. Koenig
    Sep 15, 2007 at 7:05 am
    Sep 16, 2007 at 9:41 am
  • # New Ticket Created by webmasters@ctosonline.org # Please include the string: [perl #45337] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    Webmasters @ ctosonline . orgWebmasters @ ctosonline . org
    Sep 10, 2007 at 8:06 pm
    Sep 15, 2007 at 12:18 pm
  • # New Ticket Created by Chris Dolan # Please include the string: [perl #45667] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    Chris DolanChris Dolan
    Sep 22, 2007 at 9:28 pm
    Jun 24, 2013 at 1:50 pm
  • Fix version regex to allow multiple digit versions. -John wb8tyw@qsl.network Personal Opinion Only
    John E. MalmbergJohn E. Malmberg
    Sep 9, 2007 at 3:27 am
    Oct 3, 2007 at 12:06 pm
  • This trivial patch convinces gdb to display the enum opcode symbol for the op_type, where it formerly showed a (obfuscated) number. (gdb) p *o $1 = {op_next = 0x8c9c668, op_sibling = 0x8c9c668, ...
    Jim CromieJim Cromie
    Sep 28, 2007 at 5:23 pm
    Oct 2, 2007 at 12:00 pm
  • With the upgrade, I am getting two failures in blead on OpenVMS Alpha. Built with Non threaded build, large files, and experimental symbolic link support on an ODS-5 volume. ODS-5 volume means that ...
    John E. MalmbergJohn E. Malmberg
    Sep 26, 2007 at 1:55 pm
    Sep 28, 2007 at 2:10 am
  • this patch does: 1 - improves -src lookup by finding the "_<$file" in %:: This makes it work for relative paths, where it previously used *only* the basename extracted from the COP [jimc@harpo ...
    Jim CromieJim Cromie
    Sep 24, 2007 at 7:10 am
    Sep 26, 2007 at 5:15 pm
  • 1..16 ok 1 - Win32::DomainName() not ok 2 - - checking returned domain # Failed test ' - checking returned domain' # at ext/Win32/t/Names.t line 21. # undef # doesn't match ...
    Jerry D. HeddenJerry D. Hedden
    Sep 22, 2007 at 5:14 pm
    Sep 25, 2007 at 7:53 am
  • It's been a while since I tried to use gdb on bleadperl, and I've switched to a new computer and a new linux flavour in the meantime. I'm using: GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.5-15.fc6rh) .. on a debugging ...
    HvHv
    Sep 12, 2007 at 3:02 pm
    Sep 13, 2007 at 12:33 pm
  • The IO::Dir destructor can clobber $! and other status variables. This is a bad thing to do implicitly upon exiting a block. Attached patch fixes it. -zefram
    ZeframZefram
    Sep 7, 2007 at 10:07 pm
    Jun 2, 2008 at 2:54 pm
  • Attached patch fixes the following compiler warnings: mg.c: In function `Perl_sighandler': mg.c:2910: warning: null format string pp_sys.c: In function `Perl_pp_die': pp_sys.c:504: warning: null ...
    Jerry D. HeddenJerry D. Hedden
    Sep 24, 2007 at 4:46 pm
    Sep 25, 2007 at 1:07 am
  • Automated smoke report for 5.10.0 patch 31875 maldoror.bath.planit.group: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6700 @ 2.66GHz(~2660 MHz) (x86/2 cpu) on MSWin32 - WinXP/.Net SP2 using ? unknown cc version smoketime ...
    Steve HaySteve Hay
    Sep 16, 2007 at 9:05 pm
    Sep 24, 2007 at 11:03 am
  • C:\ cat ttt.pl use strict; use warnings; { my $x = 'A'; sub f { sub { $x++ } } sub g { sub { $x++ } if $x } } my $F=f(); my $G=g(); print $F- (),$G- (),"," for 1..4; print "\n"; C:\ ttt.pl ...
    FlwFlw
    Sep 20, 2007 at 9:32 am
    Sep 21, 2007 at 2:13 am
  • # New Ticket Created by "Ed Avis" # Please include the string: [perl #45539] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    Ed AvisEd Avis
    Sep 19, 2007 at 12:25 pm
    Sep 20, 2007 at 2:20 am
  • I getting the following test failure in blead: lib/CPANPLUS/t/40_CPANPLUS-Internals-Report...................Integer overflow in version at /cygdrive/c/perl_tmp/31887/perl-current/t/../lib/version.pm ...
    Jerry D. HeddenJerry D. Hedden
    Sep 17, 2007 at 5:04 pm
    Sep 19, 2007 at 7:57 am
  • Change 31765 causes the following build warning: reentr.c: In function `Perl_reentrant_retry': reentr.c:320: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code The attached patch corrects this.
    Jerry D. HeddenJerry D. Hedden
    Sep 4, 2007 at 4:31 pm
    Sep 4, 2007 at 6:52 pm
  • Using this source (this is 5.10-to-be, isn't it?): rsync -avz rsync://public.activestate.com/perl-current ~/bleedperl and starting with a very plain (cd bleedperl): sh Configure -des ...
    Richard FoleyRichard Foley
    Sep 3, 2007 at 9:59 am
    Sep 4, 2007 at 6:25 am
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