perl5-porters@perl.org discussions for February 2013

35	Re: [perl #116433] Get IO::Socket::IP into core for seemless v4/v6 support

Hi there, Thanks for taking a start at this one. How is progress? What's working currently...? Is there anything that needs doing at the moment? -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans <span ...

Paul LeoNerd Evans
Feb 4, 2013 at 12:27 pm
Feb 19, 2014 at 4:41 pm

34	Perl 7 or Perl 2013?

Hi all, No worries: I have my asbestos undies on for responses to this post: http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/02/perl-7.html In that I asked about the pros and cons of renaming Perl 5 to Perl ...

Ovid
Feb 6, 2013 at 3:22 pm
Feb 7, 2013 at 4:22 am

29	EBCDIC support is on the chopping block

[ This message was also sent to perl-mvs ] As was brought up about 18 months ago... http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.mvs/2011/09/msg1545.html ...

Ricardo Signes
Feb 6, 2013 at 11:31 pm
Feb 27, 2014 at 9:18 pm

28	[perl #116639] regex optimiser wrongly rejects certain matches involving embedded comments

# New Ticket Created by Nicholas Clark # Please include the string: [perl #116639] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Nicholas Clark
Feb 5, 2013 at 9:26 am
Nov 24, 2013 at 10:36 pm

23	Re: Salvaging lexical $_ from deprecation

* Rafael Garcia-Suarez [2013-02-19T16:07:08] The reasons I find more compelling are those that Jesse L. mentioned. How do you suppose that the language is supposed to work, there? I *am* thinking ...

Ricardo Signes
Feb 19, 2013 at 11:23 pm
Feb 27, 2013 at 9:23 am

22	[perl #116907] perl doesn't handle m{}g for >= 2GB files even with largefiles and 64bitall

# New Ticket Created by Jarkko Hietaniemi # Please include the string: [perl #116907] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Feb 23, 2013 at 11:25 pm
Aug 31, 2013 at 7:34 pm

20	[perl #116925] document/publicize THINKFIRST

# New Ticket Created by Ricardo SIGNES # Please include the string: [perl #116925] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Ricardo SIGNES
Feb 25, 2013 at 4:06 pm
Apr 21, 2014 at 2:04 am

19	Recent pod

This used to be valid and warning-free until recently: --8<--- test.pod =head1 TEST =head2 Return values =over 4 =item undef The return value is undefined =item 0 The return value i numerical 0 ...

H.Merijn Brand
Feb 24, 2013 at 8:57 pm
Feb 26, 2013 at 5:16 pm

17	Re: [perl #116877] sort in scalar context is undefined (Summary of options)

So far the options proposed seem to be: 1) return the number of items 2) become "invisible" and return whatever the input to sort would return if it were called in scalar context. 3) return the ...

Demerphq
Feb 21, 2013 at 8:20 pm
Feb 25, 2013 at 9:27 pm

16	makedepend issues with Perl 5.17.10 on z/OS 1.13

Forwarded to p5p from perl-mvs by karl williamson ========================= All, I am starting a long running side project on z/OS that would benefit from the development release of Perl. I'm running ...

Karl Williamson
Feb 22, 2013 at 7:57 pm
Feb 25, 2013 at 4:04 pm

16	Re: perlopentut modernization

It's a week now since I've sent the second patch, had anyone the time to review it? As said before I'd like to get it commited before I go on with restructuring the whole doc according to Leon's ...

Alexander Hartmaier
Feb 5, 2013 at 11:26 pm
Feb 7, 2013 at 3:29 am

13	[perl #116943] deprecate @, %, &, * too

# New Ticket Created by Nicholas Clark # Please include the string: [perl #116943] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Nicholas Clark
Feb 26, 2013 at 1:41 pm
Jun 26, 2013 at 1:14 pm

13	[perl #116963] Add documentation on the advantages of perldoc for man users to perl.pod

# New Ticket Created by <span class="m_body_email_addr" title="f8d54f1ebed62ca2cf9092c3749d8b76" rrt@sc3d.org</span # Please include the string: [perl #116963] # in the subject line of all future ...

Rrt @ sc3d . org
Feb 27, 2013 at 1:49 pm
Feb 28, 2013 at 2:35 am

13	[perl #116915] require a "I know EBCDIC is threatened" switch to Configure

# New Ticket Created by Ricardo SIGNES # Please include the string: [perl #116915] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Ricardo SIGNES
Feb 25, 2013 at 3:36 am
Feb 25, 2013 at 11:14 pm

12	Re: Allow Perl to specify the list of headers that are XS dependencies

Sounds great. I did some rudimentary poking but couldnt find the right dir... Do you happen to know the config var name? Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"

Demerphq
Feb 20, 2013 at 1:44 am
Feb 27, 2013 at 4:01 am

12	[perl #116877] sort in scalar context is undefined

# New Ticket Created by yves orton # Please include the string: [perl #116877] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Yves orton
Feb 20, 2013 at 6:06 am
Feb 21, 2013 at 7:32 pm

12	[perl #116665] Undef evaluated to array in some conditions

# New Ticket Created by Victor Efimov # Please include the string: [perl #116665] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Victor Efimov
Feb 6, 2013 at 11:52 am
Feb 6, 2013 at 4:36 pm

11

SVs

intrpvar.h says this: PERLVAR(I, sv_count, I32) /* how many SV* are currently allocated */ PERLVAR(I, sv_objcount, I32) /* how many objects are currently allocated */ While that's not a terrible ...

Steffen Mueller
Feb 25, 2013 at 6:53 am
Feb 27, 2013 at 6:54 pm

11	Re: structures.pm does not rely only on .git (Was: Re: The strictures.pm interface)

Don't worry, that is how it was understood. :) -- With regards, Christian Walde

Christian Walde
Feb 19, 2013 at 10:27 pm
Feb 25, 2013 at 5:48 pm

10	What should autodie do with chown() on WIndows?

G'day p5p, In a recent round of bug-hunting in autodie, it was discovered that chown() on Windows systems does absolutely nothing¹. What's more, it does nothing *successfully*, so autodie doesn't ...

Paul Fenwick
Feb 21, 2013 at 3:10 pm
Feb 22, 2013 at 3:32 am

10	Re: [perl #116569] Re: 5.17.7 breaks rules of assignment

To: Leon Timmermans Cc: <span class="m_body_email_addr" title="9fa0b299d5930a221353018429738930" sisyphus1@optusnet.com.au</span ; <span class="m_body_email_addr" ...

Sisyphus1
Feb 5, 2013 at 6:28 am
Feb 6, 2013 at 7:12 am

9	SV_CONST(FETCH) and other constant strings with precomputed hash values

Hi, Goal is to use precomputed hash values of constant strings optimization in call_sv, magic_methcall and friends for TIESCALAR, FETCH, POP and friends. Patch attached and it's also on github [1]. I ...

Ruslan Zakirov
Feb 20, 2013 at 9:48 am
Feb 25, 2013 at 10:29 am

8	[perl #115112] redundant calls to S_path_is_absolute in pp_require

Of course I would like to see this and every other bug make progress, but this bug is marked as a 5.18.0 blocker, and I don't see why. -- rjbs --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open ...

Ricardo SIGNES via RT
Feb 21, 2013 at 2:58 am
Jun 4, 2013 at 9:57 am

8	New EBCDIC branch available

I have created a topic branch for work on EBCDIC at http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/khw/ebcdic It is my expectation that this will serve as the on-going repository for work on this. John should ...

Karl Williamson
Feb 26, 2013 at 9:28 pm
Feb 27, 2013 at 11:37 pm

8	Getting new version of Pod::Simple updated in core (and fixing upstream modules in general)

Hi all, I am wondering what the status is with getting Pod::Simple updated in perl. As far as I can tell some changes to Pod::Simple caused some downstream breakage and we have not upgraded because ...

Demerphq
Feb 25, 2013 at 7:22 am
Feb 26, 2013 at 2:59 pm

8	[perl #116871] Perl5 doesn't distinguish "originally was a string" and "originally was a number" and doesn't let one control caching of stringification

# New Ticket Created by yves orton # Please include the string: [perl #116871] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Yves orton
Feb 20, 2013 at 2:14 am
Feb 22, 2013 at 12:38 am

7	Re: [perl #59802] return 0 or die;

This smells to me like a super-special parse reminiscent of how Perl parses sort foo($x) which has cost me way too many hairs over the years. I run into it just rarely enough to never suspect the ...

Aristotle Pagaltzis
Feb 19, 2013 at 11:06 pm
Feb 27, 2013 at 9:27 am

6	[perl #116923] [META] tickets blocking the release of perl 5.20.0

# New Ticket Created by Ricardo SIGNES # Please include the string: [perl #116923] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Ricardo SIGNES
Feb 25, 2013 at 3:45 pm
Jan 31, 2014 at 7:15 pm

6	[perl #116919] Examples in I18N::Langinfo pod won't run due to fatal errors

# New Ticket Created by "Aaron Trevena" # Please include the string: [perl #116919] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Aaron Trevena
Feb 25, 2013 at 10:52 am
Mar 20, 2013 at 3:08 pm

6	OP_PADSV_NOLV

Would it be feasible to split OP_PADSV in two, such that: PP(pp_padsv) { dVAR; dSP; EXTEND(SP, 1); { OP * const op = PL_op; /* access PL_curpad once */ SV ** const padentry = &(PAD_SVl(op- ...

Steffen Mueller
Feb 27, 2013 at 7:01 am
Feb 27, 2013 at 9:33 pm

5	Re: [perl #116831] Benchmark tests produce a lot of warnings in 5.17.9 (yves/hv_h_split branch)

This is due to the following change: commit a820780c62918236069b3b55502640c99a9e812a Author: David Golden <<span class="m_body_email_addr" title="bb755c989fcb9897f28a2c6e00df61e2" ...

Dave Mitchell
Feb 23, 2013 at 9:05 pm
Aug 2, 2013 at 11:35 pm

5	key/value hash slice feature

Hi, I've implemented a new variant to slice hashes that returns keys and values, so I can do: $o- foo( %h{qw(allowed list of arguments)} ); And other nice things. Would love to see it in core at some ...

Ruslan Zakirov
Feb 27, 2013 at 3:57 pm
Feb 28, 2013 at 5:56 am

5	Benchmark regression 2013-02

Hi! Short note form the benchmark front: After weeks of consolidation function calls and method calls get slower again, for *non-threaded* (sic) ...

Steffen Schwigon
Feb 26, 2013 at 11:28 am
Feb 28, 2013 at 3:59 am

5	Re: [perl #113834] overload 1.19 breaks Math::BigInt 1.998

Math::BigInt is in the core, and 1.998 is the version packaged with perl-5.17.0 etc. up to perl-5.17.8. perl5.git.perl.org currently has 1.999. The issue is mostly about undocumented behaviour of the ...

Martin Becker
Feb 20, 2013 at 11:25 pm
Feb 27, 2013 at 2:40 am

5	status of WinCE Perl port in 2012 (part 2)

This thread was getting too long http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/09/msg192952.html . So I am starting a new one. So far I've had to do 1 tweak (assert was a statement, not an ...

Bulk88
Feb 4, 2013 at 6:55 pm
Feb 6, 2013 at 8:03 am

4	[perl #116971] make test tries to use a different perl than the one being build, /t/lib/croak.t t/lib/common.pl

# New Ticket Created by bulk88 # Please include the string: [perl #116971] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Bulk88
Feb 27, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Jan 14, 2014 at 6:12 am

4	Re: [perl #116821] B::Deparse warnings during build of 5.17.9

It's been suggested to me off-list that these warnings get in the way, and therefore that perhaps it would be better to skip the test for now. But I still think it's a good thing to have the test ...

Aaron Crane
Feb 21, 2013 at 7:02 pm
May 7, 2013 at 10:14 am

4	[perl #116975] [PATCH] perlfunc require: fix example subroutine

# New Ticket Created by David Golden # Please include the string: [perl #116975] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

David Golden
Feb 28, 2013 at 2:16 am
Feb 28, 2013 at 4:02 am

4	The allow_initial_tick argument to force_word()

I believe that this is now redundant, and can be removed. It was set to TRUE in 3 places. The only remaining call is this one: if (key == KEY_format) { #ifdef PERL_MAD PL_thistoken = subtoken; s = ...

Nicholas Clark
Feb 26, 2013 at 9:03 pm
Feb 27, 2013 at 3:33 pm

4

perl MAD

porters - There are various places in the code that have extra metadata (I guess) added if compiled with MAD. I can't find much information about MAD at all, so I don't know if anything I'd be ...

Peter Martini
Feb 26, 2013 at 9:32 pm
Feb 27, 2013 at 6:55 am

4	[perl #72020] Recursive back references do not always work

1. Do you get the same problems if you use the '\g1' or '\g{1}' notation introduced in Perl 5.10 (see 'perlre')? 2. Have we ever claimed (in our documentation) that "recursive backreferences" will, ...

James E Keenan via RT
Feb 24, 2013 at 1:50 am
Feb 25, 2013 at 10:37 am

4	[perl #116899] jump on uninitialised value introduced by commit b25a103638bc5111

# New Ticket Created by Nicholas Clark # Please include the string: [perl #116899] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Nicholas Clark
Feb 21, 2013 at 8:38 pm
Feb 24, 2013 at 1:23 am

4	[perl #116787] [PATCH] -Ox on Win64 Visual C 64 bit is flawed, switch to -O1

Thanks, applied as 688ea162f4.

Steve Hay via RT
Feb 21, 2013 at 8:44 am
Feb 21, 2013 at 2:03 pm

4	[perl #116659] closing STDIN causes warning when opening unrelated file

# New Ticket Created by Jim Avera # Please include the string: [perl #116659] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Jim Avera
Feb 6, 2013 at 1:33 am
Feb 6, 2013 at 7:18 pm

4	Will 5.18 also be smartmatch-challenged?

It looks like there is one release left before the smartmatch debacle gains yet another year of useles life. Was there ever any kind of consensus on or off list whether to deprecate the thing for ...

Peter Rabbitson
Feb 5, 2013 at 1:25 pm
Feb 6, 2013 at 1:35 pm

3	[perl #116853] Segmentation fault bug.

Does that mean it's fixed in blead -- and hence that the RT is closable? --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=116853

James E Keenan via RT
Feb 20, 2013 at 12:03 am
Jul 13, 2013 at 1:21 am

3	Re: [perl #116851] Test failures on DragonflyBSD

This means that perl is trying to do a chmod 2777 and is getting an OS error. Perhaps this version of BSD doesn't support the GID bit? What error (if any) do the following give you: $ touch foo $ ...

Dave Mitchell
Feb 23, 2013 at 11:57 pm
May 20, 2013 at 12:02 pm

3	[perl #116479] supply patches to upstream to fix install location

I'm attaching a patch to fix 3 of the 4 distributions named above which are maintained in blead. The patch bumps the version number for each distribution in the file named in its Makefile.PL ...

James E Keenan via RT
Feb 3, 2013 at 5:01 pm
Apr 14, 2013 at 8:00 am

3	[perl #116961] Data::Dumper 2.143 tests failures on 5.10.1

# New Ticket Created by Olivier Mengué # Please include the string: [perl #116961] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Olivier Mengué
Feb 27, 2013 at 9:42 am
Feb 28, 2013 at 1:12 am

3	branch yves/revert_skipwhite causing tests to block?

Three different smokers of mine have blocked in the same two tests while smoking this branch. mars (linux): 8297 pts/18 SN+ 0:00 ./perl -T comp/opsubs.t 8879 pts/18 SN+ 0:00 ./perl -t run/switcht.t ...

Tony Cook
Feb 25, 2013 at 11:48 pm
Feb 27, 2013 at 7:23 am

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