This Week on perl5-porters (21-27 June 2004)
Summer is here, and it's vacation time for the Perl 5 porters. Well,
except for the valorous maint pumpking, who just released a snapshot of
perl 5.8.5-to-be.
cat, pipe, perl
Nicholas Clark finds that doing a simple pipe :
cat | perl
on his system produces the trange error message, "cat: stdin: Resource
temporarily unavailable". After some investigation he decides it's
probably a FreeBSD 5 threading bug.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=rt-3.0.9-30443-91308.18.7666584401696%40perl.org
Regexp bug, fixed
Jeff Pinyan found and fixed a regular expression bug: character ranges
are not computed correctly with "\p" and "\P".
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=Pine.LNX.4.44.0406241636340.8774-200000%40perlmonk.org
In Brief
Edward Peschko remarks that tieing a hash which is already populated
with some values erases those values. Nicholas Clark explains that
tie() isn't actually destroying the values, but merely hiding them. Once
the hash untied, the original data is still there.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20040625022625.GA3087%40mdssdev05
David R.Schulte experiments that sometimes, taint error messages are
emitted for a whole conditional expression, even though only a unused
part of the expression is actually tainted. (bug #30461.)
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=rt-3.0.9-30461-91366.11.3892106357267%40perl.org
Ken Williams released Cwd 2.18.
Patch of the month
Paul Fenwick proposed a patch to make sort() play nethack when it's
called in scalar context.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=40DA505A.2050500%40perltraining.com.au
http://www.nethack.org/
Last minute
Nicholas released a snapshot of maintperl, just before the code freeze
for perl 5.8.5. Testers most welcome.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20040627220127.GC39967%40plum.flirble.org
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