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December 28th - January 3rd
News
Russ Allbery [1]announced the release of [2]podlators 4.04.
Bugs
Reported bugs
* [3]Perl #127054: Bleadperl breaks [4]Test::MemoryGrowth.
* [5]Perl #127060: Remove deprecated *glob{FILEHANDLE}. Patch provided
and applied, mentioned below.
* [6]Perl #127063: Setting $[ = 0 should not generate a warning.
* [7]Perl #127080: Perldoc for waitpid missing description for argument
value -1.
* [8]Perl #127083: Caller inside BEGIN block returns wrong information.
* [9]Perl #127122: if ($a = 2) {} issues a warning while unless ($a
= 2)
{} does not.
* [10]Perl #127061: strict 'refs' doesn't catch symbolic bareword
filehandles.
Resolved bugs
* [11]Perl #127060: Discourage usage of *glob{FILEHANDLE}.
Proposed patches
Andy Dougherty provided two additional patches to use the new BSD fdclose
function, mentioned in [12]Perl #126847.
Ricardo Signes provided a patch for [13]Perl #127060, to discourage the
usage of *glob{FORMAT}. Patch applied.
Lukas Mai provided a patch for [14]Perl #127080.
Karen Etheridge provided patches in [15]Perl #127114 clarify some
documentation. They were merged.
Andreas Koenig provided a patch for the issue mentioned below regarding
libnm.
Discussion
Ricardo Signes opened [16]Perl #127060 asking to work on resolving old
deprecation, starting with the old deprecated pattern of
*glob{FILEHANDLE}.
Yves Orton updates that he has some work in progress on [17]Perl #126182
(regex causing memory leak), but has yet to finish the work due to
personal reasons.
A continuation of the discussion brought up by a [18]question raised by
Karl Williamson regarding the text in [19]utf8 pragma raised additional
questions on how UTF-8 works. The [20]thread provides interesting
details.
In [21]Perl #127063, a conversation on whether a warning should be
provided when a piece of code has no effect.
Aaron Crane would like to change [22]Data::Dumper in relation to
integers.
He [23]provides a lengthy explanation with examples on the topic.
Karen Etheridge is working on getting blead updated to [24]podlators.
Ricardo Signes [25]asks for additional help from anyone who has
experience
with such imports.
John Peacock [26]asks the list for help with some XS necessary to
make the
new release of [27]version. Yves Orton jumped in to help with the
necessary changes.
Andreas Koenig [28]updates about a problem with libnm.
References
1. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233598
2. https://metacpan.org/release/podlators
3. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127054
4. https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::MemoryGrowth
5. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127060
6. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127063
7. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127080
8. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127083
9. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127122
10. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127061
11. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127060
12. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126847
13. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127060
14. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127080
15. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127114
16. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127060
17. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126182
18. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233125
19. https://metacpan.org/pod/utf8
20. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233530
21. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127063
22. https://metacpan.org/pod/Data::Dumper
23. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233553
24. https://metacpan.org/release/podlators
25. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233554
26. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233568
27. https://metacpan.org/pod/version
28. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233587
