perl5-porters@perl.org discussions for November 2010

79	[PATCH] Add "safe arrow/safe dereference" operator: &&->

Hello, This patch adds support for a new operator "&&- " that acts like arrow but evaluates to undef if the left side is undef. Example: $complicated&&- complex&&- {big}&&- {long}&&- [0]&&- ...

David Caldwell
Nov 13, 2010 at 4:57 am
Jan 30, 2011 at 2:48 pm

48	[perl #79960] Setting $/ to read fixed records can corrupt valid UTF-8 input

# New Ticket Created by Nicholas Clark # Please include the string: [perl #79960] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Nicholas Clark
Nov 29, 2010 at 4:05 pm
Mar 19, 2012 at 11:20 pm

43	RFC: Issues with user-defined \p{} properties

I wonder if people realize that it is possible to redefine the standard properties? You can invert the meaning, for example, of \p{ASCII}. (Fortunately, I believe that this can only be done for the ...

Karl williamson
Nov 5, 2010 at 4:41 pm
Mar 12, 2011 at 5:17 pm

40	[perl #79534] %hash{...} slice

# New Ticket Created by Father Chrysostomos # Please include the string: [perl #79534] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Father Chrysostomos
Nov 21, 2010 at 10:00 pm
Dec 12, 2010 at 8:37 pm

39	IPv6 in core - Socket::GetAddrInfo and IO::Socket::IP

I notice it's 2010, and there's still not a shred of any code that can handle IPv6 shipping in the Perl core. I'd like, therefore, to volunteer two modules of mine for the purpose ...

Paul LeoNerd Evans
Nov 3, 2010 at 12:03 am
Dec 10, 2010 at 11:14 am

31	[PATCH] deprecate ?PATTERN?

In discussing (on #p5p) possible new operators, we ran into the issue that the obscure ?PATTERN? syntax gets in the way of most uses we could potentially make of the question mark. It was proposed ...

Zefram
Nov 24, 2010 at 7:58 am
Nov 30, 2010 at 9:52 am

26	"perl: utf8.c:1997: Perl_swash_fetch: Assertion `klen <= sizeof(PL_last_swash_key)' failed." [5.12.1]

I'm experimenting with some text scanning code against a very large corpus, and I've got Perl 5.12.1 dying on this assertion failure: perl: utf8.c:1997: Perl_swash_fetch: Assertion `klen <= ...

Chip Salzenberg
Nov 25, 2010 at 12:12 am
Nov 10, 2011 at 5:08 am

23	[perl #79956] %zd format in printf

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Ed Avis
Nov 29, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Nov 30, 2010 at 5:35 pm

21	BRANCH dagolden/install-stripped -- Add install-stripped target to Makefile.SH

I've been experimenting with what a stripped down perl install might look like. From the branch commit log: Add install-stripped target to Makefile.SH install-stripped will omit man pages, omit pod/* ...

David Golden
Nov 18, 2010 at 3:14 am
Nov 21, 2010 at 8:46 pm

20	Regular expression substitution matching all possible matches

This is a question about perl regexp usage. I hope it's okay to post it here; it seemed too advanced for the beginners list. It may lead on to a possible feature request for the perl core. I would ...

Ed Avis
Nov 3, 2010 at 1:38 pm
Nov 9, 2010 at 6:57 pm

19	Semantics of safe-deref

[This thread is NOT about the syntax of our new friend. I'm using two bits of syntax to try to explain the language design question. Argue about them with me in the other thread, please.] Zefram and ...

Jesse Vincent
Nov 29, 2010 at 9:27 pm
Dec 2, 2010 at 11:16 pm

18	RFC: Processing Unicode non-characters and code points beyond Unicode's

We've gone around on this before. Here's hopefully the final round. First, the problem. Perl doesn't handle the Unicode non-character code points very well at all. These are 66 code points in Unicode ...

Karl williamson
Nov 22, 2010 at 6:01 am
Dec 9, 2010 at 2:34 pm

18	grant bounty for 0oNN octal literals

Hello, P.S. Please cc any replies to me as I'm not subscribed to p5p. I would appreciate Perl 5.13.x+ having native support for octal numeric literals having a 2-character prefix like already exists ...

Darren Duncan
Nov 1, 2010 at 8:10 pm
Nov 11, 2010 at 1:24 am

17	[perl #80030] Matching upper ASCII characters from file in RE patterns

# New Ticket Created by Jonathan Pool # Please include the string: [perl #80030] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Jonathan Pool
Nov 30, 2010 at 9:57 pm
Dec 12, 2010 at 2:14 pm

17	[perl #79528] Bleadperl 8752206e27 breaks a test in MLEHMANN/Coro-5.25.tar.gz

# New Ticket Created by (Andreas J. Koenig) # Please include the string: [perl #79528] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Andreas J. Koenig) (via RT
Nov 21, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Dec 3, 2010 at 1:53 am

14	why is the perlio buffer hard-wired to 4K?

It looks like the perlio layer flushes to the unixio layer whenever the perlio buffer fills up (assuming default layers with nothing special pushed in between). That's for writes; for reads, replace ...

Craig A. Berry
Nov 6, 2010 at 11:33 pm
Feb 17, 2011 at 10:12 pm

13	[perl #79908] my $x; sub(){$x} makes a constant even if $x changes

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Father Chrysostomos
Nov 29, 2010 at 1:16 am
Dec 2, 2010 at 9:32 pm

13	Re: "Please drop perl dependency" bugs

[Cc-ing perl5-porters@perl.org] Hi. I'm yet another perl 5 porter having a couple of thoughts on this as well. Perl upstream is already at work on cutting down the perl core to remove extraneous ...

Florian Ragwitz
Nov 13, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Nov 23, 2010 at 10:17 pm

13	[perl #71752] Case-insensitive matching of characters above 255 in ranges in character classes doesn't work

(Replying to the message at nntp://nntp.perl.org/4CD5EBE5.7080904@khwilliamson.com that never made its way to RT because the # was omitted from the subject:) This is probably several years too late, ...

Father Chrysostomos via RT
Nov 7, 2010 at 8:57 pm
Nov 16, 2010 at 12:05 am

12	[perl #79538] [PATCH] Add capability to exclude non-XS extensions

# New Ticket Created by "Jerry D. Hedden" # Please include the string: [perl #79538] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Jerry D. Hedden
Nov 21, 2010 at 11:19 pm
Sep 13, 2013 at 12:37 pm

12	Who fixed this 5.10.0 bug?

19 out of the 20 different versions of Perl I tested are free of the following bug, but one is not: 5.10.0. I've stumbled across a version-dependent bug as part of a test suite that runs 1,478,376 ...

Tom Christiansen
Nov 25, 2010 at 8:07 pm
Nov 27, 2010 at 3:15 pm

10	[perl #79838] -fstack-protector enabled without any way to disable, even on platforms not supporting it

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Perlbug @ plan9 . de
Nov 27, 2010 at 3:43 am
Sep 10, 2013 at 1:31 am

10	[RFC] Add capability to exclude non-XS extensions

In order to save time building and testing Perl, I use the -Dnoextensions=... option in Configure to exclude over a dozen XS extensions when building Perl. These include extensions I don't need ...

Jerry D. Hedden
Nov 18, 2010 at 8:52 pm
Nov 19, 2010 at 4:32 pm

9	YAML::Syck under 5.13.7

Threaded version did OK, but under unthreaded perl: cc -c -I. -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/pro/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 ...

H.Merijn Brand
Nov 21, 2010 at 10:37 am
Nov 22, 2010 at 11:48 am

9	[perl #78820] PATCH: utf8_heavy.pl don't die if called before Unicode tables built

# New Ticket Created by karl williamson # Please include the string: [perl #78820] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Karl williamson
Nov 4, 2010 at 9:15 pm
Nov 8, 2010 at 2:22 pm

9	[perl #78740] The (+) prototype is too limiting

# New Ticket Created by Father Chrysostomos # Please include the string: [perl #78740] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Father Chrysostomos
Nov 1, 2010 at 12:12 am
Nov 8, 2010 at 12:23 am

8	[perl #73666] *foo{SCALAR} autovivifies

This patch does the suggested change and adjusts the tests for the changed behaviour.

Florian Ragwitz via RT
Nov 15, 2010 at 4:13 am
Jul 3, 2013 at 5:37 am

8	Smoke [5.12.2] v5.12.2-3-g4ffae9c FAIL(F) MSWin32 WinXP/.Net SP3 (x86/2 cpu)

Automated smoke report for 5.12.2 patch 4ffae9cec64e9dd4150c249b8d63bdceb4e65fb2 v5.12.2-3-g4ffae9c maldoror.bath.planit.group: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6700 @ 2.66GHz(~2660 MHz) (x86/2 cpu) on MSWin32 ...

Steve Hay
Nov 3, 2010 at 1:30 am
Nov 23, 2010 at 1:29 am

7	[perl #79828] STDERR isn't being unlocalized when there's an unhandled exception.

# New Ticket Created by Elliot Shank # Please include the string: [perl #79828] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Elliot Shank
Nov 26, 2010 at 6:31 pm
Nov 29, 2010 at 1:37 am

7	Perl 5 Commit Summary

Perl 5 commit summary, activity since Saturday Current branch blead 126 commits. 10 unique authors. 9 unique committers. 85 files changed, 8191 insertions(+), 2705 deletions(-) Net code removal: ...

Perl 5 commit summary
Nov 3, 2010 at 2:15 am
Nov 27, 2010 at 2:09 am

7	Class::ISA status vs LSB

Hi, As some of you may remember, perl was added to LSB for the 3.2 release, and there was some back and forth as to which modules should be part of the required set [1]. I'm seeing more activity ...

Stew Benedict
Nov 13, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Nov 26, 2010 at 5:16 pm

7	[perl #78642] Logical defined or not equivalent to ternary operator with defined (documentation bug?)

Fixed by this small doc change : commit bdc7923bddf5c9272e5e4e7e5618229a2b598165 Author: Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgs@consttype.org Date: Mon Nov 15 11:47:53 2010 +0100 Doc fix for [perl #78642] Logical ...

Rafael Garcia-Suarez via RT
Nov 15, 2010 at 10:49 am
Nov 17, 2010 at 10:58 am

6	[perl #79556] 5.12.2 - microperl broken

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Perl @ plan9 . de
Nov 22, 2010 at 2:54 am
Mar 12, 2011 at 10:51 pm

6	? RFC: Should a utf8 regex pattern with the /d modifier have unicode semantics?

I think that a utf8 regex pattern with the /d modifier should have unicode semantics. But I'm open to contrary opinions. I had always assumed that it should, but it doesn't currently.

Karl williamson
Nov 29, 2010 at 2:18 am
Nov 29, 2010 at 8:17 pm

6	using the C preprocessor

Doesn't removing "perl -P" just force people to write #define exec(arg) BEGIN { exec("cpp $0 | $^X") } #undef exec at the top of their programs? How is that any better? At least Perl can figure out ...

Tom Christiansen
Nov 15, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Nov 15, 2010 at 4:17 pm

6	Lookahead shouldnt be atomic

Perlbug is messing me about right now, and i dont want to forget. Lookahead is behaving as though it is atomic, when it should not. "1212"=~/(?=(\d+))\1\1/ ? "ok" : "not ok"' I believe this is a ...

Demerphq
Nov 9, 2010 at 10:52 am
Nov 10, 2010 at 3:44 pm

6	Unix domain sockets on windows

This is probably a crazy idea, but would it be possible for perl to emulate unix domain sockets on windows by means of CreateNamedPipe? For a server, socket() and bind() would partially set up the ...

Ben Goldberg
Nov 6, 2010 at 1:10 am
Nov 10, 2010 at 3:32 pm

6	[perl #78844] binmode clobbers $@ under certain circumstances

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Muir @ arubanetworks . com
Nov 5, 2010 at 9:59 pm
Nov 7, 2010 at 2:41 am

5	[perl #79824] hash value sharing breakage

# New Ticket Created by Zefram # Please include the string: [perl #79824] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Zefram
Nov 26, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Oct 5, 2012 at 10:58 pm

5	[perl #79854] Bleadperl v5.13.7-82-g725a61d breaks MHX/Convert-Binary-C-0.74.tar.gz

# New Ticket Created by (Andreas J. Koenig) # Please include the string: [perl #79854] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Andreas J. Koenig) (via RT
Nov 27, 2010 at 1:55 pm
Apr 10, 2011 at 11:06 pm

5	[perl #79494] static builds break Encode completely

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Perl @ plan9 . de
Nov 21, 2010 at 3:10 am
Dec 1, 2010 at 5:45 am

5	[perl #79674] [PATCH] Add mro::get_linear_isa to mro.c to make overload.pm lighter

# New Ticket Created by "Jerry D. Hedden" # Please include the string: [perl #79674] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Jerry D. Hedden
Nov 23, 2010 at 5:13 pm
Nov 23, 2010 at 8:33 pm

5

perldelta

There are a few commits that I do not understand well enough to know whether they deserve a perldelta entry or how to write one. Could the relevant parties please chime in? Nicholas Clark: ...

Father Chrysostomos
Nov 14, 2010 at 10:48 pm
Nov 19, 2010 at 3:34 pm

5	PATCH [perl #78994] regex optimizer losing that folding was requested.

See the commit message in the attached patch. Note that the lines above this are clearly wrong, as LOC may not be set now when the first node should match locale. It also means that a synthetic start ...

Karl williamson
Nov 10, 2010 at 5:24 am
Nov 12, 2010 at 5:26 pm

4	Re: [perl.git] branch blead, updated. v5.13.6-546-g53226d6

That leaks in some cases. I'm not sure what the correct fix should be. (Sorry) $ PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL=2 valgrind --leak-check=full ./miniperl -Ilib configpm ==20144== Memcheck, a memory error detector ...

Nicholas Clark
Nov 18, 2010 at 9:48 am
May 22, 2011 at 7:41 pm

4	Perl5 Bug Summary

Perl5 Bug Summary http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/perl5/Overview.html Generated at Mon Nov 1 13:15:02 2010 GMT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Numbers ...

Perl5 Bug Summary
Nov 1, 2010 at 1:15 pm
Nov 29, 2010 at 2:15 pm

4	Smoke [5.6.2] maint-5.6-3-g2bce232 FAIL(M) linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 [debian] (x86_64/2 cpu)

Automated smoke report for 5.6.2 patch 2bce2321552345ccb985b6a4b87542c3eaefbac5 maint-5.6-3-g2bce232 bandsman.dyndns-ip.com: AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4450e (AuthenticAMD 2300MHz) (x86_64/2 ...

Njh
Nov 29, 2010 at 3:45 am
Nov 29, 2010 at 4:13 am

4	[perl #79820] Make my $pi := 4; a syntax error

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Nicholas Clark
Nov 26, 2010 at 4:04 pm
Nov 28, 2010 at 9:23 pm

4	[perl #79520] B::Deparse error

# New Ticket Created by Vladimir Lettiev # Please include the string: [perl #79520] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Vladimir Lettiev
Nov 21, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Nov 28, 2010 at 8:35 pm

4	Re: [perl.git] branch blead, updated. v5.13.7-106-g719245b

This causes a test failure in Encode. (I think, for all configurations): ./perl -MTestInit cpan/Encode/t/Encoder.t ... ok 260 - decode Wide character in subroutine entry at cpan/Encode/t/Encoder.t ...

Nicholas Clark
Nov 26, 2010 at 9:13 am
Nov 26, 2010 at 11:08 pm

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