Notes Tests Charnames Regular Expression Bug xsubpp Perlipc Examples Buggy PerlIO news Dodgy Function Names Lvalue Subs Various Notes You can subscribe to an e-mail version of this summary by sending an empty message to p5p-digest-subscribe@plover.com. Please send corrections…
Notes Regexp Engine SOCKS and Sockets for, map and grep Encode Licensing PERL5OPT Unicode on Big Iron Carp SvTEMP Locales and Floats Low-Hanging Fruit Miscellaneous Notes You can subscribe to an e-mail version of this summary by sending an…
Notes Fixing the Regexp Engine UTF8 and Charnames PerlIO (again) =head3 (again) New subs.pm Congratulations Various Notes You can subscribe to an e-mail version of this summary by sending an empty message to p5p-digest-subscribe@plover.com. Please send corrections and additions…
Notes stat vs. lstat Threads and POSIX PerlIO README.Solaris Locales Integer handling revisited =head3 Little fixes Various Notes You can subscribe to an e-mail version of this summary by sending an empty message to p5p-digest-subscribe@plover.com. Please send corrections and…
Notes Error number parsing VMS hackery The (f)crypt of mystery Yet more self-ties Rsync vs. FTP’ing the patches Changes to README.aix The Regex Stack Problem Things nobody’s fixed Craig Berry Various Notes You can subscribe to an email version…
(This is a slightly edited and expanded version of the reply I sent to perl6-meta@perl.org spurred by Mark-Jason Dominus sending the URL to his critique on the Perl 6 RFC process.) I agree partly on Mark-Jason Dominus’ critique, but…
Table of Contents Problems with Proposals of Major Changes Problems with Proposals of Minor Changes Miscellaneous Problems Overall Problems Bottom Line A Very Brief Summary Discussion of major changes is pointless in the absence of a familiarity with internals…
Notes sprintf Parameter Re-ordering The Dangers (and bugs) of Unicode Self-Tying Is Broken Configure Confused By Changing Architectures Encode Switch Various Notes You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending an empty message to p5p-digest-subscribe@plover.com….
$16,500 pledged, another $11,000 needed to liberate Damian Conway. As reported earlier, the Yet Another Society (YAS) is putting together a grant to Monash University, Australia. The grant will fund Damian Conway’s full-time work on Perl for a year….
Hear Larry Wall’s Keynote (Because of the time length, we’ve broken up Larry Wall’s keynote at O’Reilly’s Open Source Roundtable into four seperate audio files.) Part One MP3 RealPlayer Part Two MP3 RealPlayer Part Three MP3 RealPlayer Q…
Notes What is our Unicode model? Why not use sfio? More than 256 Files / sysopen What if cc changes? Unicode on EBCDIC AIX Is Confused Unicode split fixed! Fixes to Carp open() might fail Perl 5 is 5!…
Notes Self-tying is broken Virtual values Why is unshift slow? More Perl hacking guidelines Integer and floating-point handling printf %v format bug fixed Jarkko impersonates me Various Notes First, the meta-news this week is that you have a new…
Everyone who has read the Camel Book knows that the three great virtues of programming are laziness, impatience and hubris. Most of the columns that appear here at www.perl.com have to do, in one way or another, with either…
YAPC::Europe::London -> This is written for those poor souls who couldn’t make it to give them aflavor of the wonderful event they missed. Despite being an ex-Londoner, I got on the wrong tube Friday morning. The train was packed and…
Dr. Damian Conway is best known in the United States for authoring Object Oriented Perl, published by Manning. His lectures at Perl conferences are becoming legendary and are a joy for Perl hackers of all levels. I managed to…
Were do I begin? Like Willy Wonka said, “..the beginning is a very good place to start…” So let’s start with my journey to the conference. Day 0: July 15, 2000 My flight to San Jose wasn’t delayed too…
There are a huge number of books out there about Perl. A quick search on Amazon reveals 362 books; allowing for false positives and books where Perl is a minor part, I’d conservatively estimate there to be over 250 books…
Lightning Reports from YAPC -> Reports from: Schuyler D. Erle Avi Gene Boggs: Day 2 Sean M. Burke Uri Guttman Brad Murray Lisa Nyman: Report from a First-time Presenter Clinton Pierce Nathan Torkington Adam Turoff Mark-Jason Dominus Last month Yet…
Notes NEW! RDF Available Bug Database buildtoc use namespace Unicode Input Solution tr/a-z-0// Mutual use sprintf tests Complex Expressions in Formats Threading Failure Test Case What does changing PL_sh_path do? UNTIE Method Sarathy Fixes a Bug that Nobody Knew…
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