perl5-porters@perl.org discussions for October 2011

46	feature.pm proposal

Under Jesse’s new plan for 5.16+, it would make sense for ‘use v5.14’ to turn off any 5.16 features. { use v5.16; # ... brand spanking new features enabled here ... { use v5.14; # ... only ‘fairly’ ...

Father Chrysostomos
Oct 23, 2011 at 11:15 pm
Nov 14, 2011 at 8:06 pm

39	last inside map

Currently, last inside map is invalid: $ perl -wE'my@x=map{$_ 10&&last;$_}1..100;say$#x' Can't "last" outside a loop block at -e line 1. What about making that a stop-now-fast to mimic lazy-lists (if ...

H.Merijn Brand
Oct 17, 2011 at 6:33 am
Oct 20, 2011 at 2:01 pm

29	$[ proposal

If $[ is to be reimplemented as a module, is there any reason it shouldn’t be available under ‘use v5.16’? Allowing $[ to work regardless of feature.pm will make the code simpler (arguably simpler ...

Father Chrysostomos
Oct 16, 2011 at 6:54 pm
Nov 6, 2011 at 2:39 am

21	Fw: Smoke [5.15.3] v5.15.3-43-g6692294 FAIL(M) AIX 5.3.0.0/ML09 (PPC/1 cpu)

I think this is better discussed -on-list Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:03:29 +0200 From: Rainer Tammer <tammer@tammer.net To: "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl Subject: Re: ...

H.Merijn Brand
Oct 11, 2011 at 1:17 pm
Nov 1, 2011 at 2:54 pm

18	Build failed in Jenkins: perl5 #80

See <http://perl5.git.perl.org:8080/job/perl5/80/changes Changes: [dagolden] perldelta: document base.pm changes ------------------------------------------ [...truncated 10889 lines...] ...

Dennis Kaarsemaker
Oct 19, 2011 at 5:12 pm
Feb 18, 2012 at 12:14 am

16	The "Unicode Bug"

I'be been talking a lot with Eric Brine in RT#71533 I want to ask a community. Ecic tries to convince me, that XML::Fast works wrong. I've been trying to convice Eric, that his example suffers from ...

Mons Anderson
Oct 17, 2011 at 11:16 am
Oct 17, 2011 at 11:07 pm

14	[perl #102586] version->new("version") SEGVs

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Nicholas Clark
Oct 31, 2011 at 3:08 pm
Nov 28, 2011 at 1:22 am

14	[perl #101382] seeking on bytes causes broken perl strings

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Tchrist1
Oct 14, 2011 at 10:57 pm
Oct 31, 2011 at 9:41 pm

13	Are exceptions "still broken" in core Perl?

( My apologies if this is a settled question; I'm just looking for confirmation one way or the other. ) Per its perldelta, v5.14 fixes a slew of $@-handling bugs. So does that obsolete the non-core ...

Tom Christiansen
Oct 25, 2011 at 2:05 pm
Oct 26, 2011 at 4:18 pm

13	XS AUTOLOAD

This is regarding Father Chrysostomos' changes to fix the current behaviour of XS AUTOLOAD methods, specifically commits 8fa6a40953ef88573ed3cbbb37666e7b72dec7dd and the tests in ...

Steffen Mueller
Oct 11, 2011 at 4:04 pm
Oct 12, 2011 at 6:29 am

13	perldoc -f ord

*Returns the numeric (the native 8-bit encoding, like ASCII or EBCDIC, or Unicode) value of the first character of EXPR.* Can this be worded so it is more clear that "8-bit" applies only to ASCII and ...

John P. Linderman (jpl)
Oct 3, 2011 at 2:06 pm
Oct 7, 2011 at 2:23 am

11	RE: file enhancement request for Windows Vista and later (symbolic link support in perl)

Hi, I did not get a reply of the perlbug-admin@perl.org , so I'm forwarding this to perl5-porters (although I'm not sure whether this is the right way to file an enhancement request). Regards, Kees ...

Kees Dekker
Oct 19, 2011 at 3:02 pm
Nov 28, 2011 at 9:27 pm

11	[perl #101976] [PATCH] Remove cruft from the module example

# New Ticket Created by Michael G Schwern # Please include the string: [perl #101976] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Michael G Schwern
Oct 23, 2011 at 2:43 am
Oct 29, 2011 at 3:23 am

10	[perl #69032] Bogus error message "Malformed UTF-8 character" when using a non-word Unicode character

Unicode punctuation variables work now, as of dfb182850 and the preceding commits. But another issue that came up later in the ticket, that $♠♠ produces ‘Unrecognized character \xE2’ instead of ...

Father Chrysostomos via RT
Oct 6, 2011 at 9:50 pm
Mar 29, 2012 at 8:42 am

10	On dual-living Unicode::GCString in v5.16

====================================================================== SUMMARY: the Unicode::GCString module should be dual-lived for v5.16 ...

Tom Christiansen
Oct 31, 2011 at 9:00 pm
Nov 2, 2011 at 6:24 pm

9	[perl #102064] [PATCH] Fix use inaccuracy in perlmod.pm

# New Ticket Created by chromatic # Please include the string: [perl #102064] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Chromatic
Oct 24, 2011 at 5:56 pm
Nov 1, 2011 at 1:14 am

9	[PATCH v2]: Wrap some IPv6 sockopt constants and ipv6_mreq structure

Squashed the previous four patches down into one. Please apply this instead. -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leonerd@leonerd.org.uk ICQ# 4135350 | Registered Linux# 179460 http://www.leonerd.org.uk/

Paul LeoNerd Evans
Oct 17, 2011 at 10:08 pm
Oct 25, 2011 at 5:39 pm

9	Modernising Auto-increment

Auto-increment is magical on strings that match "/^[a-zA-Z]*[0-9]*\z/". Should we consider moving this into the 21st (i.e., non-ASCII) century? -- Johan

Johan Vromans
Oct 6, 2011 at 8:04 am
Oct 7, 2011 at 11:14 am

8	Perl 5 Commit Summary

Perl 5 commit summary, activity since Wednesday Current branch blead 24 commits. 7 unique authors. 6 unique committers. 66 files changed, 2033 insertions(+), 1325 deletions(-) Thanks, applied: Tony ...

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

8	A question on conforming to the well-formed-ness of filenames

Hello all, I wrote a test case for Pod::Html that tests if it can find POD files that are within a directory that has a '.' in its name. To test this, I have a directory, 'test.lib', which ...

Marc Green
Oct 21, 2011 at 4:43 pm
Oct 29, 2011 at 12:33 am

8	Format for HEKs

Would it be possible to create a format character sequence for HEKs, to avoid putting SVfARG(sv_2mortal(newSVhek(...))) all over the place? How would I go about that?

Father Chrysostomos
Oct 6, 2011 at 6:40 am
Oct 6, 2011 at 2:23 pm

7	[perl #102464] is warning valid?

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Linda Walsh
Oct 29, 2011 at 11:59 am
Oct 29, 2011 at 9:53 pm

7	[perl #100514] panic: realloc at ...dedup line 309...(program dies)

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Linda Walsh
Oct 2, 2011 at 8:40 pm
Oct 28, 2011 at 10:23 am

7	[perl #101486] PL_curstash should be refcounted

# New Ticket Created by Father Chrysostomos # Please include the string: [perl #101486] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Father Chrysostomos
Oct 17, 2011 at 5:27 am
Oct 22, 2011 at 11:12 pm

7	DAVEM TPF Grant September 2011 report

As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the September period. Spent it mainly continuing to work on fixing the design flaws in re_evals (i.e. /(?{...})/ ). I'm currently working on literal ...

Dave Mitchell
Oct 4, 2011 at 11:38 am
Oct 11, 2011 at 7:53 am

7	Backport Digest fix CVE-2011-3597 to maint branches

Hello, I propose that the security-related portion of a2fa999d41c94d622051667d897fedca90be1828 also known as CVE-2011-3597[1] be backported to maint-5.12 and maint-5.14. I believe this is equivalent ...

Dominic Hargreaves
Oct 7, 2011 at 9:49 pm
Oct 10, 2011 at 6:06 am

7	Pre/post increment anomaly

Are there any plans to get rid of this (wellknown) pre/post increment anomaly: $i = 3; print ++$i, ++$i, ++$i; $i = 3; print $i++, $i++, $i++; -- Johan

Johan Vromans
Oct 6, 2011 at 8:01 am
Oct 7, 2011 at 9:41 pm

6	[perl #100496] the -p flag ignores PERLIO and seems entirely unchangeable

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Christian Walde
Oct 2, 2011 at 11:17 am
Feb 4, 2012 at 2:56 pm

6	[perl #101940] Bleadperl v5.15.3-403-g77a6d85 breaks SREZIC/Tk-804.030.tar.gz

# New Ticket Created by (Andreas J. Koenig) # Please include the string: [perl #101940] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Andreas J. Koenig) (via RT
Oct 22, 2011 at 4:31 am
Oct 26, 2011 at 11:09 pm

6	[perl #90886] Many, many given bugs

There is a rather long discussion in incident http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=90886 about the switch feature (given...when and smartmatching) It begins on 17 Mai 2011: My question is ...

Klaus
Oct 25, 2011 at 1:24 pm
Oct 26, 2011 at 7:02 pm

6	[perl #101738] Bleadperl between v5.15.3-230-g70b71ec and v5.15.3-240-gf778bcf breaks YAPPO/Class-Component-0.17.tar.gz

# New Ticket Created by (Andreas J. Koenig) # Please include the string: [perl #101738] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Andreas J. Koenig) (via RT
Oct 19, 2011 at 7:50 pm
Oct 20, 2011 at 1:06 pm

6	Possible problem with ?= in Makefile.SH/Makefile

Hello, there is a problem with ?= and the AIX make. See: Makefile: # If you're going to use valgrind and it can't be invoked as plain valgrind # then you'll need to change this, or override it on the ...

Rainer Tammer
Oct 13, 2011 at 8:41 am
Oct 16, 2011 at 9:50 am

6	a concrete proposal for the continued support of EBCDIC in Perl

Problem statement and some background: The Perl 5 porters want to remove and/or disable the EBCDIC support from the current Perl 5 source code base because they have no way of knowing whether it ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Oct 3, 2011 at 10:19 am
Oct 4, 2011 at 9:04 am

5	Black smoke

http://doc.procura.nl/smoke/hpux1020/511/cc/smoke.log Automated smoke report for 5.15.3 patch 164df45ab853a1e9c2571d08edd3e27eae41a821 v5.15.3-353-g164df45 d3: PA8000 (PA-RISC2.0/32/1 cpu) on HP-UX - ...

H.Merijn Brand
Oct 12, 2011 at 6:11 am
Oct 23, 2011 at 11:55 pm

5	XS-AUTOLOAD CPAN Smoke done

Dear all, you won't read this because the subject of the email is almost all caps and will be eaten by the spam grue. Alas. The XS AUTOLOAD CPAN smoke that Father Chrysostomos requested is done and ...

Steffen Mueller
Oct 18, 2011 at 6:07 am
Oct 23, 2011 at 7:34 pm

5	[perl #101938] Oddity of /p

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Eric Brine
Oct 22, 2011 at 4:08 am
Oct 22, 2011 at 6:57 pm

5	[perl #101430] Bleadperl v5.15.3-244-gaa33328 breaks ASG/List-Gen-0.973.tar.gz

# New Ticket Created by (Andreas J. Koenig) # Please include the string: [perl #101430] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Andreas J. Koenig) (via RT
Oct 16, 2011 at 7:57 am
Oct 16, 2011 at 9:48 pm

5	Backwards compatibility for security holes?

I don't think we should worry about backwards compatibility when doing so leaves the potentially affected programs open to security holes. What do others think?

Karl Williamson
Oct 1, 2011 at 8:44 pm
Oct 2, 2011 at 10:36 pm

4	Perl5 Bug Summary

Perl5 Bug Summary http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/perl5/Overview.html Generated at Mon Oct 3 13:15:02 2011 GMT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Numbers ...

Perl5 Bug Summary
Oct 3, 2011 at 1:15 pm
Oct 31, 2011 at 1:15 pm

4	Smoke [blead] v5.15.4-67-gaba0546 FAIL(F) MSWin32 Win2000 SP4 (x86/1 cpu)

Smoke logs available at http://m-l.org/~perl/smoke/perl/ Automated smoke report for 5.15.4 patch aba0546e5e59b483db69149ae72b8c7a90f9b03f v5.15.4-67-gaba0546 perl-win2k: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 ...

George Greer
Oct 28, 2011 at 3:36 am
Oct 28, 2011 at 10:13 pm

4	[perl #99928] \R doesn't match correctly

Tom Christiansen has persuaded me that this is not a bug; that it is working correctly. The reason is that Unicode considers CR-LF to be a unit, and so they should not be separated, even if it causes ...

Karl Williamson via RT
Oct 27, 2011 at 4:47 pm
Oct 27, 2011 at 8:20 pm

4	Data::Dumper

given my %hash = ( SV = 1, GLB = *STDERR, IO = *{$::{STDERR}}{IO}, FMT = *{$::{STDOUT}}{FORMAT}, ); use Data::Dumper; print Dumper \%hash; will warn like cannot handle ref type 15 at ...

H.Merijn Brand
Oct 15, 2011 at 4:28 pm
Oct 17, 2011 at 8:37 pm

4	Outstanding patches for a maint-5.12 release?

I've volunteered to push out a 5.12.5 maintenance release with all the accumulated patches so far. I'm aware of the discussion about upgrading the Digest module to 1.17 as a fix for CVE-2011-3597: ...

Jan Dubois
Oct 13, 2011 at 11:12 pm
Oct 14, 2011 at 4:42 am

4	Re: perldoc -f ord (PATCH)

As per Tom's suggestion, I have deleted the parenthetical reference involving "8-bit"-edness. My first venture into git-based patch submissions. If done well, kudos to Florian Ragwitz. If done badly, ...

John P. Linderman (jpl)
Oct 4, 2011 at 12:31 pm
Oct 8, 2011 at 3:45 am

4	Smoke [blead] v5.15.3-294-gda6a832 FAIL(FM) MSWin32 Win2000 SP4 (x86/1 cpu)

Smoke logs available at http://m-l.org/~perl/smoke/perl/ Automated smoke report for 5.15.3 patch da6a832587514dcfa5af3e2d36923192d097affc v5.15.3-294-gda6a832 perl-win2k: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 ...

George Greer
Oct 7, 2011 at 12:47 am
Oct 7, 2011 at 6:35 am

3	meaning of prefixes in SV flags

Does anyone know what the third letter such as f/s/p signifies in the names of SV flags, e.g. the f in SVf_IOK, or the s in SVs_TEMP? -- In England there is a special word which means the last ...

Dave Mitchell
Oct 7, 2011 at 11:28 am
Apr 7, 2012 at 9:15 pm

3	Script to normalize the old perl- tags

It's irking that the release tags in the repository are inconsistent. Is that v5.6.2 or perl-5.6.2 I'm looking for? It becomes particularly annoying when automating, such as perlbrew. The attached ...

Michael G Schwern
Oct 23, 2011 at 3:03 am
Mar 31, 2012 at 9:48 am

3	[PATCH] Fix PerlIO::via's GETARG method

First patch makes this: use PerlIO::via::QuotedPrint; sub PerlIO::via::QuotedPrint::GETARG { "QuotedPrint" } open my $fh, "<:via(QuotedPrint)", undef or die $!; print PerlIO::get_layers($fh); Stop ...

Brian Fraser
Oct 16, 2011 at 10:22 pm
Dec 28, 2011 at 10:47 am

3	[perl #102516] Improve general GNU hints, needed for GNU/Hurd

# New Ticket Created by Dominic Hargreaves # Please include the string: [perl #102516] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Dominic Hargreaves
Oct 30, 2011 at 10:43 pm
Oct 31, 2011 at 9:55 am

3	reverting some regcomp fixes

Karl, Father Chrysostomos, would it be okay if I reverted the following four commits for now? They overlap with the functions that I have currently been messing with extensively in my davem/re_eval ...

Dave Mitchell
Oct 30, 2011 at 12:07 pm
Oct 30, 2011 at 4:29 pm

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