perl5-porters@perl.org discussions for May 2016

25	Indirect object syntax

I see that there is a general consensus that indirect object syntax is discouraged and should be removed from documentation examples. It is time to revisit Kent Fredric's proposal at ...

Ed Avis
May 20, 2016 at 10:32 am
May 31, 2016 at 9:28 pm

24	revert MG consting (Coro breakage) for 5.24?

Rik, I hadn't realised until recently that the Coro breakage caused by consting the MGF vtable array in commit v5.21.7-98-gc910fea, is still unresolved. I propose that we revert this commit for 5.24 ...

Dave Mitchell
May 3, 2016 at 6:34 pm
May 5, 2016 at 11:50 am

19	[perl #128213] No deprecation warning on literal left curly bracket in /.{/ etc

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Tom Wyant
May 22, 2016 at 8:15 pm
May 25, 2016 at 6:00 pm

18	[perl #127531] permit \escape on right hand side of my

Would rvalue use of ‘my \’ be governed by the experimental::refaliasing feature feature? Would they produce an experimental warning? -- Father Chrysostomos --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open ...

Father Chrysostomos via RT
May 18, 2016 at 4:52 am
May 30, 2016 at 3:13 am

15	[perl #128225] substitution within (?{}) causes segmentation fault

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Daniel Șuteu
May 23, 2016 at 5:48 pm
May 30, 2016 at 9:13 pm

13	[perl #128241] Deprecate /$empty_string/

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Father Chrysostomos
May 26, 2016 at 4:56 am
May 27, 2016 at 1:19 pm

11	[perl #127993] Version control conflict markers

Patch attached. I followed gcc's example: + Specifically, we consider a run of 7 '<', '=' or ' ' characters + at the start of a line as a patch conflict marker. --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status ...

[email protected] via RT
May 21, 2016 at 8:27 am
May 23, 2016 at 2:04 am

11	5.24.0 + cpan

I started to create the software depots for HP-UX for 5.24.0, but … build /test went pretty OK This is perl 5, version 24, subversion 0 (v5.24.0) built for IA64.ARCHREV_0-thread-multi-LP64-ld t/h2ph ...

H.Merijn Brand
May 16, 2016 at 3:45 pm
May 18, 2016 at 12:26 pm

11	Perl 5.25.1 on May 20th

Hi everyone, As soon as the Perl release cycle enters a freeze, people start committing their work in branches awaiting a merge. As blead gets colder, hitting a full freeze, these start piling. Once ...

Sawyer X
May 12, 2016 at 9:31 pm
May 14, 2016 at 2:51 pm

10	[perl #128113] [PATCH] upgrade Test-Simple in perl blead

Question for porters: 1 year ago, at an earlier stage of exodist's work on Test-Simple, our practice was to apply his patches directly to blead. The rationale for that was that this distro was so far ...

James E Keenan via RT
May 11, 2016 at 2:18 am
May 17, 2016 at 5:24 pm

9	Adding stuff to mathoms.c is now simplified, generalized

With commit 5f81fa4069cb15ccd77b1c4253c870df84c1788a, moving something to mathoms.c is now simplified. Previously no C function prototype was generated, so you had to add one yourself at the ...

Karl Williamson
May 13, 2016 at 4:34 am
May 23, 2016 at 4:08 pm

9	[perl #128093] Broken build of perl5.24.0-RC5 on Mac OS X (10.7)

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Mojca Miklavec
May 7, 2016 at 10:56 am
May 17, 2016 at 9:49 am

8	Build failed in Jenkins: perl5-win32 #2440

See <http://perl5.git.perl.org:8080/job/perl5-win32/2440/ ------------------------------------------ [...truncated 6753 lines...] ../ext/PerlIO-encoding/t/threads.t ................................ ...

Dennis+p5p-jenkins
May 27, 2016 at 7:28 pm
May 31, 2016 at 9:47 pm

8	[perl #128170] Assert fail in regcomp.c with no other symptoms: perl -e '/(?<=/'

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Dan Collins
May 17, 2016 at 10:03 pm
May 24, 2016 at 5:13 am

8	[perl #128111] [5.24.0] gettimeofday.t fails "time left should be zero"

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Jörg Plate
May 10, 2016 at 2:47 pm
May 19, 2016 at 11:43 pm

7	Perl 5 Commit Summary

Perl 5 commit summary, activity since Saturday Current branch blead 23 commits. 5 unique authors. 2 unique committers. 23 files changed, 144 insertions(+), 146 deletions(-) Thanks, applied: Ricardo ...

Perl 5 commit summary
May 4, 2016 at 1:14 am
May 28, 2016 at 1:08 am

7	[perl #128242] Aliasing via sub signature

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Father Chrysostomos
May 26, 2016 at 5:16 am
May 26, 2016 at 8:04 pm

7	[perl #128095] Failed test dist/IO/t/cachepropagate-unix on OS X with Perl 5.22 (regression from 5.20)

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Mojca Miklavec
May 7, 2016 at 2:40 pm
May 17, 2016 at 11:35 am

7	Build failed in Jenkins: perl5-win32 #2359

See <http://perl5.git.perl.org:8080/job/perl5-win32/2359/changes Changes: [rjbs] document the ?pair option to beforemaintrelease ------------------------------------------ [...truncated 6445 ...

Dennis+p5p-jenkins
May 11, 2016 at 8:20 pm
May 14, 2016 at 3:42 pm

6	[perl #128295] Strange bug with -Dprefix=/usr and -Dversiononly

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Father Chrysostomos
May 30, 2016 at 9:30 pm
May 31, 2016 at 8:05 pm

6	Whither encoding::warnings?

Whither encoding::warnings? I tried removing ${^ENCODING}, but tests for encoding::warnings fail. See the sprout/encoding branch. Before working on this any further, I need to ask what the plan is ...

Father Chrysostomos
May 21, 2016 at 7:37 pm
May 24, 2016 at 5:41 pm

6	[perl #128189] Assert fail in sv.c with no further symptoms: e t''/$0{\0}

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Dan Collins
May 19, 2016 at 9:45 pm
May 20, 2016 at 12:18 am

5	[perl #128256] Segfault due to stack overflow 'use lib sub{eval"use WHATEVER"};use WHATEVER'

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Dan Collins
May 27, 2016 at 1:03 am
May 30, 2016 at 2:15 pm

5	Build failed in Jenkins: perl5-win32 #2434

See <http://perl5.git.perl.org:8080/job/perl5-win32/2434/changes Changes: [khw] Pod::Functions/Functions_pm.PL: Fix pod error [khw] PathTools: fix Pod::Checker warning for pod [khw] ...

Dennis+p5p-jenkins
May 25, 2016 at 4:12 am
May 27, 2016 at 6:47 pm

5	[perl #128227] vfork should be used for spawning external processes

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via RT
May 23, 2016 at 11:54 pm
May 26, 2016 at 7:40 am

5	[perl #128196] ExtUtils::MakeMaker::FAQ on splliting XS files

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Jeffrey Kegler
May 20, 2016 at 6:43 pm
May 25, 2016 at 12:29 pm

5	[perl #57512] Implicit close()s are silently unchecked for error

Well, it's almost time for 5.25.1, which this ticket blocks. The final message says it is so that final considerations can be done now. What might these be? -- Karl Williamson --- via perlbug ...

Karl Williamson via RT
May 17, 2016 at 9:46 pm
May 23, 2016 at 2:37 pm

5	[perl #120085] [EXPERIMENT] lexical subroutines

What, if anything, is preventing this from leaving experimental status? (I've been using these more lately, and I am still happy.) -- rjbs --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open ...

Ricardo SIGNES via RT
May 11, 2016 at 7:09 pm
May 20, 2016 at 11:02 pm

5	[perl #128089] [PATCH] fix Module::CoreList::is_core bounds checking for specific module versions

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Karen Etheridge
May 6, 2016 at 9:20 pm
May 17, 2016 at 8:41 pm

5	Build failed in Jenkins: perl5-win32 #2386

See <http://perl5.git.perl.org:8080/job/perl5-win32/2386/changes Changes: [tony] better glibc i_modulo bug handling ------------------------------------------ [...truncated 193899 lines...] 'f' is ...

Dennis+p5p-jenkins
May 17, 2016 at 8:02 am
May 17, 2016 at 12:42 pm

5	[perl #128096] use open doesn't affect magic diamond operator

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Ambs @ cpan . org
May 7, 2016 at 8:06 pm
May 17, 2016 at 5:16 am

5	Build failed in Jenkins: perl5-win32 #2378

See <http://perl5.git.perl.org:8080/job/perl5-win32/2378/changes Changes: [arc] perlbug: Allow noninteractive use in test mode (-t option) [arc] perlbug: quit main loop on empty answer / eof in test ...

Dennis+p5p-jenkins
May 16, 2016 at 2:04 pm
May 17, 2016 at 2:17 am

5	[perl #128052] threads-2.07 t/test.pl uses re::is_regexp() which requires 5.10+

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Andy Grundman
May 2, 2016 at 5:38 pm
May 16, 2016 at 11:42 am

5	perl v5.24.0 is now available!

As I sit here, and oftentimes, I wish I could be monarch of a desert land I could devote and dedicate forever To the truths we keep coming back and back to. So desert it would have to be, so walled ...

Ricardo Signes
May 9, 2016 at 11:39 am
May 10, 2016 at 11:44 am

5	[perl #128085] SIGSEGV in S_regmatch with S_study_chunk: Assertion `!frame' failed.

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Dan Collins
May 6, 2016 at 3:44 pm
May 10, 2016 at 7:52 am

4	[perl #128302] split docs don't mention pattern modifiers

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Smylers
May 31, 2016 at 4:07 pm
May 31, 2016 at 9:16 pm

4	[patch] Update Test-Simple in perl blead

This patch will upgrade Test-Simple to the latest version. This patch is against perl blead. This fixes several small bugs, including STDERR noise from the tests, and leaky TEMP files from the ...

Chad Granum
May 30, 2016 at 1:46 pm
May 31, 2016 at 1:38 pm

4	[perl #128294] [PATCH] bisect-runner.pl: Skip tests of prereq mods

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Father Chrysostomos
May 30, 2016 at 8:30 pm
May 31, 2016 at 1:36 pm

4	[perl #128199] Clarification of File::Copy documentation

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Rrt @ sc3d . org
May 20, 2016 at 9:28 pm
May 24, 2016 at 11:33 pm

4	[perl #128178] [PATCH] Indirect object syntax fixed in FileHandle.pm

# New Ticket Created by Chase Whitener # Please include the string: [perl #128178] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Chase Whitener
May 18, 2016 at 4:33 pm
May 24, 2016 at 10:57 pm

4	Build failed in Jenkins: perl5-win32 #2403

See <http://perl5.git.perl.org:8080/job/perl5-win32/2403/changes Changes: [jhi] Add POSIX::tmpnam() removal into perldelta [sprout] lexsub.t: Remove some unnecessary evals [sprout] [perl #128182] Fix ...

Dennis+p5p-jenkins
May 19, 2016 at 3:52 am
May 19, 2016 at 2:42 pm

4	[perl #128086] SIGSEGV in hek_eq_pvn_flags

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Dan Collins
May 6, 2016 at 3:50 pm
May 15, 2016 at 9:04 pm

3	Build failed in Jenkins: perl5-win32 #2445

See <http://perl5.git.perl.org:8080/job/perl5-win32/2445/changes Changes: [jkeenan] Modify hints for Hurd per Debian ticket 825020. [khw] Add an example of the '0x' string format ...

Dennis+p5p-jenkins
May 30, 2016 at 4:31 pm
May 31, 2016 at 2:34 pm

3	Re: [perl #127875] Blead breaks Scope::Upper

The attached series of 8 patches makes Scope::Upper pass all tests on 5.24.0, as well as all major perls back to 5.10.1. (I didn't test on 5.6.x and 5.8.x as these require Test::More to be ...

Dave Mitchell
May 29, 2016 at 10:01 pm
May 30, 2016 at 11:10 am

3	[perl #116467] Pod::Checker should be switched to use Pod::Simple

This has been fixed by 1f44a80e271feac30e0ddd10ca806f3914c2860a -- Karl Williamson --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=116467

Karl Williamson via RT
May 27, 2016 at 6:09 pm
May 29, 2016 at 6:33 pm

3	[perl #128260] Assert fail in Perl_sv_2pv_flags: '(vec%0,0,0)=0'

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Dan Collins
May 27, 2016 at 1:52 am
May 28, 2016 at 12:55 am

3	Maybe only partially deprecate encoding.pm?

encoding.pm has a Filter option which, instead of hooking the upgrad- ing of strings, simply runs the source of the file through a decoding source filter and does an effective 'use utf8'. This option ...

Father Chrysostomos
May 22, 2016 at 9:17 pm
May 25, 2016 at 9:54 pm

3	[perl #128231] Perl confuses a tied hash and its element, so generating a wrong error message

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via RT
May 24, 2016 at 4:33 pm
May 24, 2016 at 11:54 pm

3	Perl5 Bug Summary

Perl5 Bug Summary http://rt.perl.org/NoAuth/perl5/Overview.html Generated at Mon May 2 15:17:04 2016 GMT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Numbers * ...

Perl5 Bug Summary
May 2, 2016 at 3:17 pm
May 23, 2016 at 3:17 pm

3	[Bug Perl 5.18 - 5.24] warnings from hv_func.h (again?)

This bug is similar to #123483 https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=123483 but this time with gcc. For details, see ...

Ilya Zakharevich
May 17, 2016 at 3:05 am
May 23, 2016 at 1:54 pm

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