Blog:
http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2017/08/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-july-31st---august-6th.html
Twitter: https://twitter.com/perl5summaries/status/894885646577180672
July 31st - August 6th
Issues
New Issues
* [1]Perl #131820: Bleadperl v5.27.2-41-gf4c975aa03 breaks
SZABGAB/Pod-Tree-1.25.tar.gz.
* [2]Perl #131821: Bleadperl v5.27.2-34-g196a02af14 breaks
SREZIC/Tk-804.033.tar.gz.
* [3]Perl #131822: A multiline regex that starts with /^/m is much
slower than the corresponding one that starts with /\n/.
* [4]Perl #131823: Bleadperl v5.27.2-56-g7e8d786b02 breaks
PATL/IO-Mux-0.08.tar.gz.
* [5]Perl #131824: Bleadperl breaks Data-Printer-0.39.
Resolved Issues
* [6]Perl #78288: ref and other ops are inefficient in boolean context.
* [7]Perl #127834: Flaws in Perl code due to unsafe module load path.
* [8]Perl #130548: pp_sys.c: Assertion failure.
* [9]Perl #131811: Panic: previous op failed to extend arg stack.
* [10]Perl #131821: Bleadperl v5.27.2-34-g196a02af14 breaks
SREZIC/Tk-804.033.tar.gz.
* [11]Perl #131823: Bleadperl v5.27.2-56-g7e8d786b02 breaks
PATL/IO-Mux-0.08.tar.gz.
Suggested Patches
Tony also provided a patch for [12]Perl #131725 (number parsing).
Tony Cook also provided a patch for [13]Perl #131786 (Linker error with
pp.o if -mieee-fp is in CFLAGS. "multiple definition of \_LIB\_VERSION").
Discussion
Dave Mitchell [14]asks what sv_utf8_upgrade() should do if it receives a
qr. It was decided to simply make it a NOOP.
[15]Perl #68534: (Enhancement: which expression (not just scalar) was
uninitialized in eq) was upvoted and there's a [16]discussion on the
feasibility of providing additional situations in the uninitialized
values
warnings.
References
1. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131820
2. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131821
3. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131822
4. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131823
5. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131824
6. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78288
7. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127834
8. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130548
9. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131811
10. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131821
11. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131823
12. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131725
13. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131786
14. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/245804
15. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68534
16. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/245807
