Blog:
http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2017/07/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-july-17th-23rd.html
Twitter: https://twitter.com/perl5summaries/status/889400968424640512
July 17th-23rd
News
Perl 5.27.2 is now [1]available.
Perl 5.24.2 binary kits for OpenVMS are now [2]available.
Zefram [3]suggests ejecting the following modules from core: [4]B::Debug,
[5]File::Fetch, [6]Memoize, and [7]Sys::Syslog, since they are not
part of
the CPAN toolchain and are not used for anything in core.
Issues
New Issues
* [8]Perl #131777: signatures accept fancy assignment operators.
Discussion
Zefram [9]suggests deprecating the implicit-encoding "Wide character in
print" behavior.
References
1. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/245585
2. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/245616
3. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/245599
4. http://metacpan.org/pod/B::Debug
5. http://metacpan.org/pod/File::Fetch
6. http://metacpan.org/pod/Memoize
7. http://metacpan.org/pod/Sys::Syslog
8. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131777
9. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/245607
