perl5-porters@perl.org discussions for January 2011

50	Time to update POSIX.pm?

Greetz, In ancient history, memory was short and modules were small. It is the time of autosplit. However, I would call to reconsider autosplit for POSIX.pm... The unsplit POSIX.pm file is 1024 lines ...

Mark Overmeer
Jan 29, 2011 at 10:49 pm
Aug 31, 2011 at 2:55 pm

42	Using smart matching to find whether an array contains a string

This question is about the smart match operator ~~ and about its documentation. Is it possible to find whether an array contains a given string? In perl 5.10.0 I was using @a ~~ $x but from a glance ...

Ed Avis
Jan 25, 2011 at 6:09 pm
Jan 28, 2011 at 6:41 pm

35	RFC: More on /i matching of multi-character folds, and \p{}

There are two parts to this message, after the inroductory portion it talks about /\p{}/i matching. The final part is multi-character folds. After some confusions back and forth on the Unicode ...

Karl Williamson
Jan 13, 2011 at 11:23 pm
Jan 17, 2011 at 11:33 am

33	RFC: Make "use 5.14" select "use re '/a' " ?

I have pushed to blead (with Jesse's permission) the last commits (besides doc and any bug fixes) that enable the /a regular expression modifier. Presuming it works ok, should this become the default ...

Karl Williamson
Jan 17, 2011 at 5:02 pm
Jan 20, 2011 at 5:19 pm

29	Proposal: "$->" for implicit invocant

Hi, I just released the invoker module on cpan, and i'd like to propose the syntax to be included in future perls. why: with the blooming modules providing the "method" keyword, we no longer need to ...

Chia-liang Kao
Jan 16, 2011 at 7:06 am
Feb 4, 2011 at 1:30 am

28	[perl #81586] Carp::confess looses $! on Windows

# New Ticket Created by Mark Overmeer # Please include the string: [perl #81586] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Mark Overmeer
Jan 3, 2011 at 8:23 am
Jul 23, 2014 at 2:47 pm

26	let's be stricted with maint doc changes

I just finished a run through cherrymaint, applying a lot of the approved-but-unapplied changes, or tightly-related changes that were seconded but not approved. I found one or two commits that I ...

Ricardo Signes
Jan 3, 2011 at 11:42 pm
Jan 6, 2011 at 12:51 am

21	proposal: "$->" syntax for implicit invocant

Hi, I just released the invoker module on cpan, and i'd like to propose the syntax to be included in future perls. why: with the blooming modules providing the "method" keyword, we no longer need to ...

Chia-liang Kao
Jan 16, 2011 at 6:55 am
Jan 22, 2011 at 11:46 am

20	[perl #82040] %SIG handlers BLOCK/UNBLOCK signals rather than BLOCK+save / restore

# New Ticket Created by Paul LeoNerd Evans # Please include the string: [perl #82040] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Paul LeoNerd Evans
Jan 10, 2011 at 11:19 am
Feb 17, 2011 at 9:35 pm

20	Fwd: [rt.cpan.org #65284] Module broken with 5.13.x development perl versions

This looks like a bug in either base.pm or VERSION to me. Or should I really patch it with this? - my $version = $mod- {module}- VERSION; + my $version = ${"$mod- {module}\::VERSION"}; ----- ...

Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
Jan 31, 2011 at 1:19 pm
Feb 2, 2011 at 8:43 am

16	[perl #82954] Can't do {n,m} with n > m in regex - make warning?

# New Ticket Created by "Ed Avis" # Please include the string: [perl #82954] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Ed Avis
Jan 28, 2011 at 1:25 pm
Jul 23, 2012 at 11:47 pm

15	[perl #82086] Still "keys" performance regression since 5.10

# New Ticket Created by btik-fbsd@scoubidou.com # Please include the string: [perl #82086] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Btik-fbsd @ scoubidou . com
Jan 11, 2011 at 5:21 pm
Mar 12, 2011 at 10:55 pm

15	make GvCV rvalue only?

After my fixes a few months ago to sort out all the weak-ref / dangling pointer issues between stashes, GVs and CVs; we're left with the situation where in the normal case for a named sub of a GV ...

Dave Mitchell
Jan 3, 2011 at 2:27 pm
Jan 23, 2011 at 10:23 pm

15	Peter's typo fixes in Configure, hints/, and cpan/.

I did not apply the typo fixes for Configure and hints/ (I leave that for Merijn), nor the typo fixes for cpan/, as they should be send to the maintainer of the package. Abigail

Abigail
Jan 7, 2011 at 10:45 am
Jan 11, 2011 at 1:51 am

12	Modernizing MAD

I first submitted the linked patch...something like 3 years ago. In that time, MAD has rotted a great deal and that makes me somewhat sad. The patch moves mad's tests and support libraries out of the ...

Jesse Vincent
Jan 29, 2011 at 7:31 pm
Feb 13, 2011 at 9:14 pm

11	First pass at Test::PerlRun

Dave Rolsky
Jan 30, 2011 at 11:17 pm
Feb 5, 2011 at 2:28 pm

10	Pushed patch to warn if using \p in locale

As mentioned briefly earlier in this list, \p{} uses Unicode rules always regardless of the locale. commit fb2e24cdda774d9e9c28f1cd0356bba9070894c7 Author: Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com ...

Karl Williamson
Jan 28, 2011 at 6:15 am
Feb 19, 2011 at 9:03 pm

9	[perl #82948] Data::Dumper error repeatly serializes

# New Ticket Created by unera@debian.org # Please include the string: [perl #82948] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Unera @ debian . org
Jan 28, 2011 at 9:29 am
Jan 28, 2014 at 4:16 am

9	[perl #82616] security Issues with user-defined \p{} properties

# New Ticket Created by Dave Mitchell # Please include the string: [perl #82616] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Dave Mitchell
Jan 22, 2011 at 3:18 pm
Feb 22, 2011 at 11:39 pm

9	What's the future of /a?

Perl 5.13.9 is out and has some of Karl's work to enforce ASCII semantics on the character class shortcuts with the /a modifier. However, you have to either: use re '/a'; # can that be use re 'ascii' ...

Brian d foy
Jan 21, 2011 at 12:45 pm
Jan 24, 2011 at 2:43 pm

9	broken links in blead

This is a quick hack and may or may not be useful, but I wrote a quick script using URI::Find and LWP to grab all the URIs out of the blead source and try to retrieve them. Here's the stuff where the ...

Michael Stevens
Jan 19, 2011 at 3:45 pm
Jan 20, 2011 at 1:56 pm

9	[perl #81986] [PATCH] remove perlapollo from perl.pod

# New Ticket Created by Robin Barker # Please include the string: [perl #81986] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Robin Barker
Jan 8, 2011 at 11:08 pm
Jan 13, 2011 at 12:59 pm

8	[perl #82802] [PATCH] fileno should return undef when PerlIO returns -1

# New Ticket Created by Leon Timmermans # Please include the string: [perl #82802] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Leon Timmermans
Jan 25, 2011 at 8:33 pm
Feb 23, 2011 at 1:50 am

8	RFC: deprecate a literal '{' in '\X{' in pattern for all X in [a-zA-Z]

For example, deprecate '\b{', but nothing else where a { immediately follows a 'b'. If we deprecate just the { when it could conflict with something we might want to add later, we don't touch the ...

Karl Williamson
Jan 23, 2011 at 5:53 am
Feb 13, 2011 at 5:17 am

8	fcntl() and FD_CLOEXEC

Hi, The following is based on Perl 5.12.3 code source but the assumption goes back to at least 5.8.4 (the oldest tarball I have). In 11 places in the Perl core source: - pp_sys.c 6 - perl.c 2 - ...

NormW
Jan 28, 2011 at 9:11 pm
Jan 30, 2011 at 11:44 pm

8	Perl 5 Commit Summary

Perl 5 commit summary, activity since Wednesday Current branch blead 12 commits. 6 unique authors. 5 unique committers. 21 files changed, 416 insertions(+), 134 deletions(-) Thanks, applied: David ...

Perl 5 commit summary
Jan 1, 2011 at 2:08 am
Jan 29, 2011 at 2:08 am

8	Being more careful with FP on gcc:

After carefully considering http://blog.andreas.org/display?id=9 I believe we should add the flag "-fexcess-precision=standard" when compiling on gcc 4.5+. Any controversy here?

Chip Salzenberg
Jan 22, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Jan 26, 2011 at 7:54 pm

8	Unicode::Collate and using the XS version in core

It has come up a number of times on #p5p why Unicode-Collate is using the PP version and not the XS version in core. From Porting/Maintainers.pl 'Unicode::Collate' = { 'MAINTAINER' = 'sadahiro', ...

Chris 'BinGOs' Williams
Jan 12, 2011 at 10:18 am
Jan 23, 2011 at 1:29 am

8

AIX fails

TSTENV = stdio close tmp462924B: A file or directory in the path name does not exist. at -e line 4. ld: 0706-003 Cannot find or read import file: $(PERL_INC)/perl.exp ld:accessx(): A file or ...

H.Merijn Brand
Jan 6, 2011 at 7:27 am
Jan 17, 2011 at 7:04 am

8	perl 5.12.3 diff stats

I knew that perl-5.12.3 would be a very minor set of changes, but I thought it would be nice to share just how successful we have been at having a nice, stable maint version. Pending any further ...

Ricardo Signes
Jan 3, 2011 at 4:32 pm
Jan 3, 2011 at 7:41 pm

7	Test::Builder in perl 5.13.9

Hi, while testing modperl with perl 5.13.9 I get a new warning in Test::Builder that can be reduced to: $ perl -we 'open my $f, " ", \my $x; binmode $f, "scalar"' Use of uninitialized value in ...

Torsten Förtsch
Jan 23, 2011 at 4:41 pm
Apr 4, 2011 at 11:28 am

7	The status of the perldelta for 5.13.10

Hi there. I'll be releasing perl 5.13.10 on February 20th. We need a perldelta for that release which is currently very incomplete. To that end I've gone through all the commits from v5.13.9..99ca48e ...

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Jan 27, 2011 at 8:30 pm
Jan 28, 2011 at 2:19 pm

7	5.12.3 RC1 on track to ship

So far, I have two outstanding issues with RC1: http://markmail.org/message/2ve6fg2kpnn2kw6l This doesn't bother me because I have gotten word from several Win32 builders that 5.12.3-RC1 built clean. ...

Ricardo Signes
Jan 13, 2011 at 2:06 pm
Jan 16, 2011 at 7:05 am

7	Re: [perl.git] branch blead, updated. v5.13.8-167-gc1b879e

Oddly enough ack didn't find it: $ ack cc_runtime.h $ grep cc_runtime.h vms/descrip_mms.template h0 = av.h cc_runtime.h config.h cop.h cv.h embed.h embedvar.h ac0 = $(ARCHCORE)$(sockh) ...

Dave Mitchell
Jan 6, 2011 at 11:41 am
Jan 10, 2011 at 5:57 pm

7	[perl #81790] [PATCH] Fix typos (spelling errors) in cpan/CPANPLUS-Dist-Build/*.

# New Ticket Created by (Peter J. Acklam) # Please include the string: [perl #81790] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Peter J. Acklam) (via RT
Jan 7, 2011 at 7:07 am
Jan 10, 2011 at 5:10 am

5	dropping mathoms.c entries for merged ops.

At the moment whenever we merge 2 or more OP bodies into one, we're following a policy of adding link compatibility bodies to mathoms.c, analogous to the policy on API functions. However, I'm not ...

Nicholas Clark
Jan 2, 2011 at 6:40 pm
Feb 20, 2011 at 4:34 pm

5	[perl #82652] Bleadperl v5.13.8-259-g949cf49 breaks ZEFRAM/XML-Easy-0.008.tar.gz

# New Ticket Created by (Andreas J. Koenig) # Please include the string: [perl #82652] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Andreas J. Koenig) (via RT
Jan 23, 2011 at 6:31 pm
Feb 3, 2011 at 7:47 am

5	perl-5.12.3-RC3 is now available

This is a public notice that perl-5.12.3 RC3 has been uploaded to the CPAN as: 3297664fc8fc05631ce6c51a4ef78f0d9e44f651 perl-5.12.3-RC3.tar.bz2 27916c5d1d44301f4f65dcebf6aab1c0599040d9 ...

Ricardo Signes
Jan 18, 2011 at 2:18 am
Jan 21, 2011 at 2:22 pm

5	[perl #80764] "open FH, '<:raw', $filehandle" makes filehandle unbuffered

The attached patch makes «open FH, ':raw' $filename» do what it advertises to do: open the file, and then call «binmode FH». Previously a shortcut was taken that simply wasn't correct, as previously ...

fawaka@gmail.com via RT
Jan 3, 2011 at 10:12 pm
Jan 21, 2011 at 4:37 am

5	[perl #81572] autodie throws internal error on pipe open with argument list

# New Ticket Created by Moritz Lenz # Please include the string: [perl #81572] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Moritz Lenz
Jan 2, 2011 at 5:54 pm
Jan 3, 2011 at 6:25 pm

4	[perl #82484] Some PerlIO layers can't be stacked during open

# New Ticket Created by Leon Timmermans # Please include the string: [perl #82484] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Leon Timmermans
Jan 19, 2011 at 10:07 pm
Dec 29, 2011 at 1:56 pm

4	genmake mention from perlembed.pod is bogus

Hi, perldoc perlembed reads: The ExtUtils::Embed kit on CPAN ships with a script called genmake, which generates a simple makefile to build a program from a single C source file. It can be used like ...

Konovalov, Vadim (Vadim)** CTR **
Jan 8, 2011 at 6:16 pm
Feb 22, 2011 at 6:07 am

4	[perl #82052] [PATCH] Configure git-clean option

# New Ticket Created by Robin Barker # Please include the string: [perl #82052] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Robin Barker
Jan 10, 2011 at 11:50 pm
Feb 8, 2011 at 11:03 am

4	[perl #82392] pod fix OS2::Process

# New Ticket Created by Michael Stevens # Please include the string: [perl #82392] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Michael Stevens
Jan 18, 2011 at 11:36 am
Feb 1, 2011 at 7:05 pm

4	Request for new t/porting test file

An important part of Perl's release engineering process is making sure that new releases don't reuse the same version numbers for non-dual-life or blead-upstream modules. Right now, this tool, ...

Jesse Vincent
Jan 20, 2011 at 7:51 pm
Feb 1, 2011 at 12:31 pm

4	Perl5 Bug Summary

Perl5 Bug Summary http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/perl5/Overview.html Generated at Mon Jan 3 14:15:01 2011 GMT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Numbers ...

Perl5 Bug Summary
Jan 3, 2011 at 2:15 pm
Jan 31, 2011 at 2:15 pm

4	[perl #81454] perl cannot read UTF-16 files with illegal unicode

I'm sorry, but this ticket should instead be against the CPAN module Encode, and not Perl itself, and what you are requesting is actually an enhancement; it isn't actually a bug. The url to enter ...

Karl Williamson via RT
Jan 13, 2011 at 9:58 pm
Jan 31, 2011 at 6:34 am

4	CPAN module like runperl() in t/test.pl?

I'm working on moving Carp over to dist and making it dual-lifeable. I am converting the test suite over to Test::More instead of t/test.pl, but I'm stuck on its use of the runperl() function from ...

Dave Rolsky
Jan 30, 2011 at 4:58 pm
Jan 30, 2011 at 9:15 pm

4	Perl 5.12.3 is now available

I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try to run. My love and I, we looked amazed Upon the gory mystery. 'Lie down, lie down!' the people ...

Ricardo Signes
Jan 22, 2011 at 2:48 am
Jan 22, 2011 at 1:44 pm

4	Exception objects in BEGIN, UNITCHECK etc?

Hi, $ perl -le 'eval q/BEGIN {die \"huhu"}/; print ref($@)?${$@}:$@' SCALAR(0x6267b0)BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 1) line 1. $ perl -le 'eval q/UNITCHECK {die \"huhu"}/; print ...

Torsten Förtsch
Jan 15, 2011 at 6:27 pm
Jan 18, 2011 at 5:53 pm

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