Notes Line Disciplines Continue Ben Tilly Fixes map Gack! Big Bug in 5.6 More pack Options IPC::BashEm perldiag Re-alphabetized Poor Diagnosis of sort Errors glob() function not documented Overloading Assignment POSIX Character Classes First Cite for ‘Perl’? Various Notes…
Notes Meta-Information Brief Update p5p to become Refereed? perlretut and perlrequick Threading Hilarity Line Disciplines Older Discussion of Disciplines Big Line Numbers Pseudohash Field Names, Hash Performance, and map Performance C with Embedded Perl `Unreachable’ code. sprintf Precision SDF…
Table of Contents Unicode - Perl goes international! Better Building Improved Compiler Version Tuples Lexical Warnings Lvaluable Subroutines Weak References POSIX Character Classes Miscellaneous Bits `Darn it, who spiked my coffee with water?!’…
Notes Meta-Information Brief Update Module Warnings POD Changes Race conditions in statndard Perl utilities open Calls not checked in perldoc Big Flame Wars Chip and Jarkko Quit Templates in pack and unpack use strict in the core modules Various…
Beginning Perl : Ten Perl Myths -> Introduction Table of Contents Perl is hard Perl looks like line noise Perl is hard because it has regexps Perl is hard because it has references Perl is just for Unix Perl…
Notes Meta-Information Module Interface and Version Meta-Information SVs by Default Another return of PREPARE More Flushing Problems Array::Virtual #line directives DProf Various Notes Last year I fell behind on reports because I took three business trips in two weeks….
This summer, at yapc in Pittsburgh and again at the third Perl Conference, I was very fortunate to meet with a lot of friends from other regional Perl Monger groups. A lot of our groups have similar problems and…
Notes Meta-Information More 5.005_63 Results $^H and %^H Perl RPMs Development Continues on Ilya’s Patches Change to xsubpp Closed Filhandle in Signal Handler pad_findlex Needs to be Recursive Conversion Specifier Bug The Trivial Test eof() at the Beginning of…
According to the perlhist man page, Perl was first released twelve years ago today, on December 18, 1987. Congratulations to Larry Wall on the occasion of Perl’s twelfth birthday!…
Notes Meta-Information 5.005_63 Released Development Continues on Ilya’s Patches Regex Optimizations PREPARE XSLoader Change to xsubpp Path Location New Improved File::Find DB_File Locking Technique use Parameters in XS Module Initializations next in XS-invoked Perl subroutines -Dp improvement Log::Agent Getopt::Long…
Notes Meta-Information m//g in List Context eof() at the Beginning of the Input Shadow Passwords Continue Perl, EBCDIC, and Unicode lock Keyword Safe::Hole Change to xsubpp Euphoria Talarian SmartSockets perlxstut and perlxs Additions Reset umasks Mailling List Archives Unavailable…
Notes New Meta-Information Thread Model Discussion Discussion of Line Disciplines Continues Shadow Passwords Bugs in NT Perl Sockets? Run Out of File Descriptors Lexical Variable Leak Control-Backslash Bitwise Operators Taint Bug? next Outside a Block Quiet List Various Notes…
This week on perl5-porters (15-21 November 1999) Notes XSLoader.pm Threads Shared Interpreter threads (the current model) Cloned interpreter threads (upcoming in 5.005_63) chomp() Threading and Regexes Safe::Hole PREPARE Marshalling Modules Local Address in LWP local()izing select() and chdir() Wandering Environment…
Notes Lexical variables and eval More About Line Disciplines link on WinNT Regex Optimization Threads on Solaris Regex Engine Reentrancy Big Files Continue Regexp Objects again Unicode Support on EBCDIC Machines Marshalling Modules Got Perl? localtime() has Another Bug!…
Notes glob case-sensitivity D’oh::Year and Y2K warnings Threading and Regexes Change to xsubpp utf8 Needs a New Pumpking STOP blocks map and grep in void context Data::Dumper and Regexp objects sort improvements IPv6 and Socket.pm New quotation characters system…
Notes glob case-sensitivity Perl under UNICOS New perlthread man page Threading and explicit unlocking Threading and Regexes pack t Template Happy Birthday CPAN! Local Address in LWP Return of ref prototype $^O sort improvements Shell.pm enhancements. Time Zone Output…
Happy Birthday Perl 5 The first full release of Perl 5 was exactly five years ago, on 17 October, 1994. (Not 18 October as perlhist says.) Happy birthday, Perl, and congratulations to Larry and the cast of thousands! Oh, and…
(11-17 October 1999) -> Introduction New Development Release 5.005_62 Unicode Character Classes Module Bundling and the proposed import pragma use fields allows overlapping member names PREPARE functions and my Class $foo declarations goto Out of Conditional Bug Regex Range Bug…
(18-24 October 1999) -> $^O STOP blocks and the broken compiler Blank lines in POD PERL_HEADER environment variable Out of date modules in Perl distribution Enhanced UNIVERSAL::isa sort improvements glob case-sensitivity reftype function New perlthread man page Win32 and fork()…
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