Blog:
http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2017/07/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-july-10th-16th.html
Twitter: https://twitter.com/perl5summaries/status/886858866004283392
July 10th-16th
News
Perl [1]5.24.2 and [2]5.22.4 are finally, finally out!!
Issues
New Issues
* [3]Perl #131732: false positive of stack extending check with empty
arrays.
* [4]Perl #131734: AIX 7.1 Smoke Tests.
* [5]Perl #131735: NetBSD 7.1 Smoke Test Failures.
* [6]Perl #131746: runtime error: null pointer passed as argument 1,
which is declared to never be null.
* [7]Perl #131749: [8]ExtUtils::CBuilder bug finding C++ compiler.
Resolved Issues
* [9]Perl #131732: false positive of stack extending check with empty
arrays.
* [10]Perl #131749: [11]ExtUtils::CBuilder bug finding C++ compiler.
Patches
Discussion
Dave Mitchell [12]suggests (keys(%tied_hash)) in boolean/scalar context)
changing the behavior of tied hashes in boolean and scalar context.
John P. Linderman wrote on his progress in [13]destabilizing
mergesort and
the relevant [14]SORTf_DESC flag.
References
1. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/245531
2. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/245527
3. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131732
4. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131734
5. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131735
6. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131746
7. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131749
8. http://metacpan.org/pod/ExtUtils::CBuilder
9. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131732
10. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131749
11. http://metacpan.org/pod/ExtUtils::CBuilder
12. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/245463
13. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/245512
14. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/245537
