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Hi! I recently found out that it is almost impossible to write XS modules that deal with unicode correctly, and here is why: First, the long-known-issue: In XS parameters, the type "char *" is ...
Marc Lehmann
Apr 26, 2008 at 12:13 am
Jun 4, 2008 at 3:09 pm -
Currently Perl's whole-array deref syntax can be rather awkward, especially when writing something like for my $item ( @{ $obj- {contents}{items} } ) { with a deeply nested array. It becomes hard to ...
Ben Morrow
Apr 14, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Apr 30, 2008 at 10:31 pm -
A top story on the register today: http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/04/21/bray_ruby_rails/ Abigail
Abigail
Apr 22, 2008 at 9:24 am
Apr 28, 2008 at 4:35 am -
Some weeks ago I was at a london.pm dim sum. The conversation lead round to Léon saying to me something close to: And there are enough are working on Perl 5? and my answer was plain No Specifically, ...
Nicholas Clark
Apr 15, 2008 at 8:14 pm
May 5, 2008 at 6:40 pm -
# New Ticket Created by (Justin Mason) # Please include the string: [perl #53446] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
Justin Mason) (via RT
Apr 28, 2008 at 11:14 am
Apr 28, 2008 at 11:29 pm -
$ perl -lwe 'sub pie {print 0 + "pie"}; pie; pie;' Argument "pie" isn't numeric in addition (+) at -e line 1. This surprised me. I assumed that I should get a warning for each call to the subroutine. ...
Nicholas Clark
Apr 24, 2008 at 4:36 pm
May 7, 2008 at 7:47 am -
G'day p5p, The current perlfunc documentation states correctly that atan2(0,0) is not well defined, which implies to the reader that Perl returns undef for this point. It doesn't, it returns 0, and ...
Paul Fenwick
Apr 6, 2008 at 1:28 am
Apr 20, 2008 at 8:27 am -
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OK, I'm still a newbee in leakcheck land, so I picked up some pieces out of blead, and added these lines to the Makefile in my XS module: --8<--- leakcheck: PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL=2 PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 ...H.Merijn Brand
Apr 18, 2008 at 6:36 am
Apr 21, 2008 at 9:03 am -
(I did post this via perlbug and to perlbug@perl.org but both appear to have gone into a black hole) The following code: if (open(my $fh, "/etc/passwd")) { ... } Leaves the file open at the exit of ...
Matt Sergeant
Apr 27, 2008 at 11:46 pm
May 8, 2008 at 8:55 pm -
I would swear someone else has asked this, but just in case ... Using forks or threads, what would it take to convince perl that another process was the *real* process? That could let us do this: ...
Ovid
Apr 2, 2008 at 9:03 am
Apr 10, 2008 at 2:03 am -
Hi, Folks. Let me make something clear from the beginning. I am not complaining with this email. I just want to make people reflect on this subject, and show my point of view about it. But as my ...
Alberto Simões
Apr 22, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Apr 26, 2008 at 3:47 pm -
Dominoes. Mahjong. Uppercase ß. And useful stuff too: http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/ Nicholas Clark ----- Forwarded message from Nicholas Clark <nwc10+p5p4@colon.colondot.net ----- ...
Nicholas Clark
Apr 6, 2008 at 7:31 am
Apr 9, 2008 at 3:51 pm -
# New Ticket Created by manchicken@manchicken.com # Please include the string: [perl #53482] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
Manchicken @ manchicken . com
Apr 29, 2008 at 1:08 am
Nov 1, 2009 at 12:19 am -
# New Ticket Created by david@davidfavor.com # Please include the string: [perl #53244] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
David @ davidfavor . com
Apr 23, 2008 at 1:33 pm
May 10, 2008 at 2:22 am -
This code produces this output: $ cat wrong.pl use warnings; my $undef; if ($undef == 3) { } elsif ($undef == 0) { } $ ./perl -Ilib wrong.pl Use of uninitialized value $undef in numeric eq (==) at ...
Nicholas Clark
Apr 17, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Apr 28, 2008 at 12:17 pm -
Shalom, the attached patch does three things: 1. Mentions Path::Class and File::Fu in lib/File/Spec.pm. 2. Mentions the alternatives and abstractions of File::Find. (Caveat: I am one of the ...
Shlomi Fish
Apr 17, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Apr 20, 2008 at 11:38 pm -
My Irix build problems seem to have gone away. I'm using a different machine now, so I'm going to blame having an old compiler on the other box. All that follows is after Configureing with -de ...
David Cantrell
Apr 30, 2008 at 9:31 pm
May 15, 2008 at 11:08 pm -
Inspired by: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=44833 (fixed somewhere between 5.8.7 and 5.8.8) But I don't think test were added for it. Attached is a patch for t/base/rs.t. (I hope ...
Bram
Apr 27, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Jun 15, 2008 at 7:58 am -
# New Ticket Created by Matt Sergeant # Please include the string: [perl #53504] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
Matt Sergeant
Apr 29, 2008 at 6:57 am
May 7, 2008 at 8:48 am -
Hello, I took a look at this bug-report and the magic assoicated with $@ does not get cleared. I did some testing on how to turn it off but I'm not sure what 'the correct way' is. (Therefor there is ...
Animator via RT
Apr 26, 2008 at 1:46 pm
May 5, 2008 at 7:25 pm -
I'm surprised how long it took us to make such an easy fix. Sorry Abigail, you're going to have to update your talk. Nicholas Clark ----- Forwarded message from Nicholas Clark ...
Nicholas Clark
Apr 24, 2008 at 5:18 pm
May 1, 2008 at 7:46 pm -
this patch - adds new memory allocation macro : New_TSN ( Type, SubTypeArray, NumItemsInArray ) This parameterizes the size of the embedded array that is malloc'd. - uses it to refactor struct ...
Jim Cromie
Apr 20, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Apr 29, 2008 at 2:18 pm -
OK. Now smoking 5.10.x for Mac OS X/PPC on Tuesday and Friday mornings, at the expense of a couple of blead smokes. Schedule is now 5.8.x: Tuesday, Friday 5.10.x: Sunday, Wednesday Blead: Monday, ...
Dominic Dunlop
Apr 1, 2008 at 6:42 am
Apr 15, 2008 at 11:20 pm -
Patch attached that: a) shows the error from Carp::Heavy, b) the supplied string, c) a solution/work-around #!/usr/bin/perl -l use Carp; my @t; for (1 .. 1024) { open my $fh, "<", $0; push @t, $fh; } ...
Bram via RT
Apr 30, 2008 at 10:53 am
Jul 14, 2009 at 9:37 am -
# New Ticket Created by Bram # Please include the string: [perl #53554] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
Bram
Apr 30, 2008 at 9:35 am
May 8, 2008 at 3:32 pm -
Hello, I just took a look at some of the open tickets on rt.perl.org. The following tickets can be marked as resolved: #52672: regexp failure: (?=) turns into OPFAIL: Patch applied (#33667) #52452: ...
Bram
Apr 26, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Jun 23, 2008 at 2:46 pm -
# New Ticket Created by "Lightner, Mark CTR DISA GS4B" # Please include the string: [perl #52992] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
Lightner, Mark CTR DISA GS4B
Apr 16, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Oct 14, 2012 at 12:37 pm -
# New Ticket Created by Niko Tyni # Please include the string: [perl #52740] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
Niko Tyni
Apr 11, 2008 at 6:14 am
Aug 11, 2008 at 12:30 pm -
I was running a build to figure out how and when Pod::Html gets tested, in order to work on the dual-life version, and the following happened: ...
David Landgren
Apr 29, 2008 at 6:08 pm
May 2, 2008 at 10:38 pm -
# New Ticket Created by david.freedman@uk.clara.net # Please include the string: [perl #53414] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
David . freedman @ uk . clara . net
Apr 27, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Apr 28, 2008 at 8:43 pm -
Perl5 Bug Summary http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/perl5/Overview.html Generated at Mon Apr 7 12:46:48 2008 GMT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Numbers ...
Perl5 Bug Summary
Apr 7, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Apr 28, 2008 at 4:42 pm -
Hi (), Currently, bless() has the following syntax: bless REF, CLASSNAME I've been doing a lot of object mocking lately, and it can get a bit blinding with nested objects. e.g.: my $self = bless( { ...
Alfie
Apr 21, 2008 at 4:55 am
Apr 21, 2008 at 5:40 pm -
It's going be interesting to see what this discovers: https://www.osscensus.org/ Of course there's selection bias which will probably skew the figures in favour of more recent versions but I'm still ...
Andy Armstrong
Apr 16, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Apr 16, 2008 at 9:02 pm -
# New Ticket Created by "Reini Urban" # Please include the string: [perl #52920] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
Reini Urban
Apr 15, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Apr 16, 2008 at 8:46 am -
# New Ticket Created by "Ed Avis" # Please include the string: [perl #52702] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
Ed Avis
Apr 10, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Apr 15, 2008 at 9:54 am -
2008-04/09 メルマ!ニュース http://melma.com/ こんにちは、メルマ!編集部のハイジです。 花粉症でもないのに、なんだか“くしゃみ”がでる今日この頃。 くしゃみといえば、最近気がついたことが…続きは編集後記で♪ ┌ 〜 pick up! 〜 ────────────────────────┐ キツイ口臭で、嫌われていませんか? ...
◆メルマ!ニュース
Apr 8, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Apr 11, 2008 at 2:12 pm -
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atan2
Change 33650 by rgs@scipion on 2008/04/06 14:53:02 Subject: [PATCH] perlfunc.pod: atan2(0,0) returns 0, not undef From: Paul Fenwick <pjf@perltraining.com.au Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:28:27 +1000 ...Jarkko Hietaniemi
Apr 9, 2008 at 12:38 am
Apr 9, 2008 at 2:58 pm -
I noticed that 5.8.9-tobe was adding another exported symbol that probably shouldn't be exported: PL_AMG_namelens. And at least in 5.11 and 5.10 we can also make PL_AMG_names static, as it is no ...
Jan Dubois
Apr 4, 2008 at 1:50 am
Apr 8, 2008 at 5:17 pm -
# New Ticket Created by Stefan Wehinger # Please include the string: [perl #52452] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
Stefan Wehinger
Apr 3, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Apr 6, 2008 at 6:14 pm -
Patch attached. File::Find turned c: into c:/ (which is a completly different path). No tests for it added. (No idea how this can be tested automatically) Kind regards, Bram
Bram via RT
Apr 30, 2008 at 3:28 pm
May 23, 2008 at 6:19 am -
# New Ticket Created by Robin Redeker # Please include the string: [perl #53038] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
Robin Redeker
Apr 18, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Apr 26, 2008 at 8:10 pm -
How can I tell Perl that its standard/file input is, say, UTF-16, without also having it also try to interpret its code as UTF-16? Things I thought of: 1. Is there any way via -m/-M to specify the ...
Mark J. Reed
Apr 23, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Apr 25, 2008 at 11:53 pm -
Hi Ken, Various tests currently fail on Win32 when built with MinGW due to recent changes in ExtUtils-CBuilder: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.daily-build.reports/2008/04/msg54811 .html These ...
Steve Hay
Apr 18, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Apr 22, 2008 at 9:47 am -
I have worked through the issues that were raised and placed on the git nitpicking page; http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?git_nitpicking So, there is a new repository up; get the URLs ...
Sam Vilain
Apr 15, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Apr 17, 2008 at 2:13 am -
While testing B::C I got to the problem that already nullified cop's are being freed, causing "Bad free() ignored (RMAGIC, PERL_CORE)" This problem exists in 5.10 and blead. The straightforward patch ...
Reini Urban
Apr 15, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Apr 15, 2008 at 3:56 pm -
Hello, Did you also try with overriding the built-in exit function? #!/usr/bin/perl -l BEGIN { *CORE::GLOBAL::exit = sub { my $i=0; while (my @z = caller($i++)) { print "$i: @z"; } CORE::exit(@_); } ...
Animator via RT
Apr 26, 2008 at 11:46 am
Mar 31, 2012 at 12:09 am -
The last "succeeding" perlsmoke run here has been reportedly on 11 Jan 2008 (http://www.mail-archive.com/daily-build-reports@perl.org/msg50021.html) and since then (long not noticed, though) it ...
Steven Schubiger
Apr 30, 2008 at 9:59 am
May 7, 2008 at 10:11 am -
# New Ticket Created by James Mcclure # Please include the string: [perl #53562] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
James Mcclure
Apr 30, 2008 at 12:42 pm
May 1, 2008 at 8:00 pm -
I'm confused. I thought that these two should be the same: $ perl -MO=Concise -e 'sub foo (\@); foo @ARGV' a <@ leave[1 ref] vKP/REFC - (end) 1 <0 enter - 2 2 <; nextstate(main 1 -e:1) v - 3 9 <1 ...
Nicholas Clark
Apr 29, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Apr 30, 2008 at 7:29 am -
Hello all, I just tried to use the forked debugger under LINUX, and all it would do is bring up the xterm, but kept the debugger I/O in the main session. I had to put the attached patches on to get ...
John E. Malmberg
Apr 25, 2008 at 2:37 am
Apr 27, 2008 at 2:14 pm
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