perl5-porters@perl.org discussions for April 2011

84	Unicode regex negated case-insensitivity in 5.14.0-RC1

Attempting to run $WORK's data filter/ETL on 5.14.0-RC1, which currently runs on 5.10.0 in production. The module versions are different between the two Perl versions but the script itself is the ...

George Greer
Apr 28, 2011 at 8:48 pm
May 2, 2011 at 9:53 pm

38	Re: [PATCH] export store_cop_label

Please see https://github.com/rurban/perl/commits/cygwin from 2011-04-12 https://github.com/rurban/perl/commit/3691eaa79cc6a196b6a424b4c7abc6c8f5a481e2 contains the full store_cop_label patch. The ...

Reini Urban
Apr 12, 2011 at 12:22 pm
Jul 17, 2011 at 1:47 am

38	Call for proofreaders - perldelta.pod

We're in the home stretch to get Perl 5.14.0RC1 out on Wednesday. http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob/blead:/pod/perldelta.pod should be the current state of perldelta. I did a bit of editing ...

Jesse Vincent
Apr 18, 2011 at 12:50 pm
Apr 27, 2011 at 7:42 am

37	[perl #89502] Add support for Atari FreeMiNT platform

# New Ticket Created by Alan Hourihane # Please include the string: [perl #89502] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Alan Hourihane
Apr 28, 2011 at 7:32 pm
Jan 16, 2014 at 8:29 am

33	Proposed update for 5.14 for perlunicode.pod

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Karl Williamson
Apr 13, 2011 at 1:54 am
Dec 26, 2011 at 1:02 am

31	blead is CLOSED for releng

Hi folks, As of this moment, please get my explicit permission before making ANY commit to blead. We've polished off all known RC-blocker bugs and I hope to release 5.12.0 RC1 tomorrow, April 20th. ...

Jesse Vincent
Apr 19, 2011 at 2:33 pm
Apr 20, 2011 at 12:53 pm

25	blead problem: runaway Configure on Solaris

Has anyone else tried to build the frozen blead on Solaris yet? I just did, and had a most remarkable experience. It seemed to get about as far along as trying to find the signals, and things really ...

Tom Christiansen
Apr 19, 2011 at 11:10 pm
Apr 20, 2011 at 7:48 pm

24	Pragma to disable scientific notation?

It's a matter of taste but personally I find 'scientific notation' for number output (e.g. 5e-6 instead of 0.000005) a source of bugs. Is there a way to turn it off globally so that perl will never ...

Ed Avis
Apr 20, 2011 at 2:08 pm
May 4, 2011 at 9:46 am

24	PATCH: typo in new perllocale material

I don't know what "rules" Jesse wishes to apply to documentation patches, but I should think that entirely new portions of the docs should at least be allowed to be corrected of typos that change ...

Tom Christiansen
Apr 14, 2011 at 4:01 pm
Apr 15, 2011 at 6:40 am

18	[perl #89032] utf8-bracket support

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Linda Walsh
Apr 21, 2011 at 5:03 am
Apr 27, 2011 at 8:35 am

17	who uses attributes?

Is it true that attributes are still considered experimental? Does anything use them, and if so, for what? It looks like the :locked sub attribute has been removed, having been a pthreads thing not ...

Tom Christiansen
Apr 30, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Aug 4, 2011 at 9:48 am

16	[perl #89544] closure keeps containing scope alive

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Perlbug @ plan9 . de
Apr 29, 2011 at 6:57 am
Jun 21, 2012 at 12:40 pm

16	[perl #89312] CPAN.pm in core needs this patch to be able to work on ActivePerl

# New Ticket Created by "Christian Walde" # Please include the string: [perl #89312] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Christian Walde
Apr 26, 2011 at 7:19 pm
Apr 29, 2011 at 9:04 am

15	Is perldelta missing an incompatibility entry for \cX?

I have discovered what looks to me like an incompatible change that perldelta is missing an entry for. It only says it is a deprecation, but it seems in some instances incompatible. I don't want to ...

Tom Christiansen
Apr 23, 2011 at 2:23 am
Apr 28, 2011 at 4:10 pm

14

?-a

$ ./perl -wcE '/(?-a)/' Sequence (?-a...) not recognized in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(?-a <-- HERE :)/ at -e line 1. $ I don't know whether it's intentional that (?-a) cannot be used, but if it ...

Abigail
Apr 5, 2011 at 1:42 pm
Apr 11, 2011 at 4:54 pm

13	Perl 5.14.0 Release Candidate 1

But then Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. On my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth ...

Jesse Vincent
Apr 20, 2011 at 11:52 am
Apr 24, 2011 at 8:00 pm

13	blead podcheck now failing

porting/podcheck.t ........ 157/626 # Failed at porting/podcheck.t line 56 # 'pod/perldelta.pod' contains POD errors # WARNING pod/perldelta.pod: (section) in 'curl(1)' deprecated at line 1208 # ...

Karl Williamson
Apr 19, 2011 at 3:45 am
Apr 19, 2011 at 4:37 am

12	[perl #88814] op/sigdispatch.t fails on openbsd for threaded builds

# New Ticket Created by Tony Cook # Please include the string: [perl #88814] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Tony Cook
Apr 18, 2011 at 5:13 am
Sep 11, 2013 at 4:07 am

12	the very secret diary of perl references

Did you know that there is no mention--none whatsoever--of weak references anywhere it belongs? * Nothing at all in perlfunc. * Nothing at all in perlref. * Nothing at all in perlreftut. * Nothing at ...

Tom Christiansen
Apr 25, 2011 at 9:18 pm
Apr 28, 2011 at 5:19 pm

12	PATCH: perlop booboo

% diff -u blead/pod/perlop.pod /tmp --- blead/pod/perlop.pod 2011-04-19 15:13:11.000000000 -0600 +++ /tmp/perlop.pod 2011-04-22 20:34:27.000000000 -0600 @@ -1786,11 +1786,11 @@ The STDIN filehandle ...

Tom Christiansen
Apr 23, 2011 at 2:36 am
Apr 27, 2011 at 11:37 pm

12	PATCH: perldelta

--- pod/perldelta.pod 2011-04-18 10:44:07.000000000 -0600 +++ /tmp/perldelta.pod 2011-04-18 15:51:46.000000000 -0600 @@ -40,50 +40,51 @@ which is a symbol that looks like a bell, and is used in ...

Tom Christiansen
Apr 18, 2011 at 9:58 pm
Apr 19, 2011 at 8:44 am

12	packages with :::::: in

Is it documented anywhere how the package names in package a::::::b; $o = bless [], "c::::::d"; are to be parsed? ie what structure of GVs and symbol tables result. I believe that I know what the ...

Nicholas Clark
Apr 7, 2011 at 12:50 pm
Apr 8, 2011 at 11:26 am

11	Proposed changes to perlre for new 5.14 modifiers

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Karl Williamson
Apr 11, 2011 at 12:10 am
Apr 12, 2011 at 1:41 am

8	Perl 5 Commit Summary

Perl 5 commit summary, activity since Wednesday Current branch blead 20 commits. 4 unique authors. 4 unique committers. 11 files changed, 171 insertions(+), 120 deletions(-) Net code removal: ...

Perl 5 commit summary
Apr 2, 2011 at 1:08 am
Apr 30, 2011 at 1:08 am

8	new diagnostic message missing from the documentation

When the devil did *THIS* sneak in??? Hash %ALIASES missing the % in argument 1 of dbmopen() at /home/tchrist/scripts/ga line 3 (#1) (D deprecated) Really old Perl let you omit the % on hash names in ...

Tom Christiansen
Apr 28, 2011 at 6:02 pm
Apr 28, 2011 at 8:14 pm

8	duplicated words in in the blead pods

You know, Perl is really very good at this kind of thing. :( Jesse, what do you what done about this? A patch? --tom blead/pod/perlaix.pod: 459 The exact line number may vary, but if the warning (W) ...

Tom Christiansen
Apr 22, 2011 at 11:20 pm
Apr 28, 2011 at 3:36 pm

8	[perl #88742] UTF-8 parsing bug in perl source

# New Ticket Created by Linda Walsh # Please include the string: [perl #88742] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Linda Walsh
Apr 17, 2011 at 8:22 am
Apr 22, 2011 at 4:09 pm

8	FAIL: AIX build report for 5.14 RC1

SUMMARY: I'm suspect we may need to add aix to our list of platforms that can't do a tzset in the two tests we have that need it. Good news and bad news. The bad news is that AIX failed 2 tests: 1: ...

Tom Christiansen
Apr 21, 2011 at 2:53 am
Apr 21, 2011 at 6:07 am

8	perldelta ugliness

-On Linux the legacy process name is now set with L<prctl(2) , in +On Linux the legacy process name is now set with C<prctl(2) , in Now that's certainly unfortunate! A bare manpage reference prctl(2) ...

Tom Christiansen
Apr 18, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Apr 19, 2011 at 3:19 am

8	Doc changes (post-5.14) for INSTALL file for review

Hello folks, I proposed to do minor doc changes, but I wound up doing more than anticipated. I've pod-ified quite a bit, normalized some style stuff (mostly changed instances to all use what was ...

Kevin J. Woolley
Apr 17, 2011 at 5:18 am
Apr 18, 2011 at 2:56 pm

8	[perl #88132] bless to a string ending :: interferes with ISA lookup after typeglob aliasing

# New Ticket Created by Nicholas Clark # Please include the string: [perl #88132] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Nicholas Clark
Apr 9, 2011 at 10:59 am
Apr 17, 2011 at 8:16 pm

7	RC2 timing

It sounds like we have _just_ enough delta to warrant a second release candidate for Perl 5.14.0. That said, nothing I've seen so far is really serious enough to want a full week of soak time. I'm ...

Jesse Vincent
Apr 26, 2011 at 2:45 pm
May 4, 2011 at 7:29 pm

7	perldelta: better /r example?

Consider: =head3 Non-destructive substitution The substitution (C<s/// ) and transliteration (C<y/// ) operators now support an C</r option that copies the input variable, carries out the ...

Tom Christiansen
Apr 25, 2011 at 8:31 pm
Apr 27, 2011 at 1:32 pm

7	[perl #88744] Test failure t/re_fold_grind.t with bleadperl

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Zsban Ambrus
Apr 17, 2011 at 9:55 am
Apr 25, 2011 at 8:02 pm

7	FAIL: Linux build report for 5.14 RC1

This one at least built and tested to completion. It failed one test: t/run/switch0..................................................ok ...

Tom Christiansen
Apr 20, 2011 at 8:26 pm
Apr 21, 2011 at 4:25 am

7	\w now includes \pN?

In 5.12.3, \w followed RL1.2 and matched \p{Alphabetic} \p{GC=Mark} \p{GC=Decimal_Number} \p{GC=Connector_Punctuation} but in 5.14, this has changed. It appears that \w now includes *all* the ...

Tom Christiansen
Apr 5, 2011 at 8:03 pm
Apr 6, 2011 at 3:04 pm

7	[perl #87726] unwanted warning from diagnostics.pm under -w

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Father Chrysostomos
Apr 4, 2011 at 3:44 am
Apr 6, 2011 at 11:04 am

6	Filter::decrypt failure with 5.0.14 RC1

I'm seeing this failure with Filter::decrypt ok 1 ok 2 # test 3: Got 'Aborting, Compiler detected at /home/paul/install/5.14.0-RC1/lib/5.14.0/i686-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 213. Compilation failed in ...

Paul Marquess
Apr 22, 2011 at 10:26 pm
Apr 25, 2011 at 12:35 pm

6	Proposal for perl 5.16: new regexp option /.../v -- quote variable contents by default

I propose a new regexp option /.../v to quote variable contents inside regular expressions by default. By this I mean the following behaviour: Suppose I have a scalar variable $needle: my $needle = ...

Klaus
Apr 17, 2011 at 4:50 pm
Apr 25, 2011 at 10:03 am

6	Re: Smoke [5.13.11] v5.13.11-190-g5da6b59 FAIL(F) openbsd 4.8 (i386/1 cpu)

This test has been hanging the test script on openbsd and mirbsd since it was added with commit 0c1bf4c7d433bb0ad80bfe5511b1301db32b7b95. The test in question does: require POSIX; my $new = ...

Dave Mitchell
Apr 12, 2011 at 9:13 pm
Apr 22, 2011 at 5:33 pm

6	[perl #88362] crypt produces same digest for different strings

# New Ticket Created by Renee Bäcker # Please include the string: [perl #88362] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Renee Bäcker
Apr 12, 2011 at 12:04 pm
Apr 13, 2011 at 11:42 am

6	[perl #88018] Can't use an undefined value as a HASH reference - only in boolean context?

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Perlbug @ plan9 . de
Apr 7, 2011 at 1:28 pm
Apr 12, 2011 at 5:03 am

6	$ARG issues

If we've deprecated the global @ARG as an alias to the package @_ since subsequent to 5.005, @_ is lexically scoped not global, what about $ARG? That's even worse, because you don't know whether it ...

Tom Christiansen
Apr 5, 2011 at 1:12 pm
Apr 6, 2011 at 10:58 am

6	[perl #87664] Bleadperl v5.13.6-543-g2d0d1ec breaks GFUJI/Class-Monadic-0.04.tar.gz

# New Ticket Created by (Andreas J. Koenig) # Please include the string: [perl #87664] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Andreas J. Koenig) (via RT
Apr 2, 2011 at 5:37 pm
Apr 4, 2011 at 5:34 am

5	[perl #89356] recursive require calls can cause a stack overflow

# New Ticket Created by Jesse Luehrs # Please include the string: [perl #89356] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Jesse Luehrs
Apr 27, 2011 at 4:06 am
Nov 20, 2011 at 8:05 pm

5	PATCH: pod/perllol.pod

--- /home/tchrist/blead/pod/perllol.pod 2011-04-25 19:40:47.000000000 -0600 +++ ./perllol.pod 2011-04-26 18:31:07.000000000 -0600 @@ -6,23 +6,24 @@ =head2 Declaration and Access of Arrays of Arrays ...

Tom Christiansen
Apr 27, 2011 at 12:44 am
Apr 28, 2011 at 5:26 pm

5	IO:select - pp_sselect interface change

G/M, A look through 'current' Perl source reveals several instances of use of the FD_SET/FD_ZERO/FD_ISSET macros, whereas the pp_sselect interface uses 3 bit-mapped 'strings' to identify the sockets ...

NormW
Apr 26, 2011 at 12:55 am
Apr 28, 2011 at 1:41 pm

5	5.14.0-RC1 test failures on MS Windows 7 + gcc-4.4.3 (tested on both 32/64bit)

Hi, I am sending 2 failures I have experienced on my Windows 7/64bit box when building 5.14.0-RC1 with gcc-4.4.3 compiler (by mingw-w64.sf.net). I have tested both 32bit and 64bit builds. FAILURE 1: ...

Kmx
Apr 26, 2011 at 5:29 am
Apr 26, 2011 at 1:27 pm

5	[perl #88486] New regressions with bleadperl (caused by commit efc5c7c332b6baa4c90ca3e3de1fba8ce28448ae)

# New Ticket Created by slaven@rezic.de # Please include the string: [perl #88486] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Slaven @ rezic . de
Apr 13, 2011 at 4:40 pm
Apr 14, 2011 at 2:22 pm

5	[perl #87940] Bleadperl v5.13.10-408-ged0d180 breaks AZAWAWI/Syntax-Highlight-Perl6-0.88.tar.gz

# New Ticket Created by (Andreas J. Koenig) # Please include the string: [perl #87940] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Andreas J. Koenig) (via RT
Apr 6, 2011 at 8:09 pm
Apr 14, 2011 at 1:26 pm

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