This Week on perl5-porters (16-22 Octover 2006) by David Landgren- October 27, 2006 This Week on perl5-porters - 16-22 Octover 2006 "And if the best we can come up with is numeric error codes then I&39;m going to break out the bell bottoms and have a disco party, you groove machine." -- Michael G. Schwern, shaking his bootie at chromatic&39;s suggestion for solving the diagnostics dilemma.Topics of InterestNew "version" diagnostic breaks a bunch of modules Last week, we learnt that changes in "version" caused failures in some of...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.summary/2006/10/msg188.html This Week on perl5-porters (9-15 October 2006) by David Landgren- October 19, 2006 This Week on perl5-porters - 9-15 October 2006 "May I remind everybody my personal opinion, which is that I see little to null utility to style patches to C or perl code, but that they clobber version control history, waste my time, and that in most I cases will not apply them." -- Rafaël Garcia-Suarez, current pumpking, on why people should not fiddle with the bloody whitespace.Topics of InterestCoding styles and ancient perls Last week, Dr. Ruud and Yves Orton...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.summary/2006/10/msg187.html This Week on perl5-porters (2-8 October 2006) by David Landgren- October 12, 2006 This Week on perl5-porters - 2-8 October 2006Topics of Interest "I do not know what crazy things people have done in code I cannot see. But people are creative in strange ways, and I cause them enough trouble already by incorporating changes with unintended behaviour changes." -- Nicholas Clark, on why it pays to be cautious.Outdated modules in blead Andreas König noted that there were eight modules in blead that had more recent counterparts on CPAN, mentioning that...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.summary/2006/10/msg186.html This Week on perl5-porters (25 September-1 October 2006) by David Landgren- October 6, 2006 This Week on perl5-porters - 25 September-1 October 2006 "Well not since that time you thought that embedding perl was a good idea in the first place" -- Johnathon Stowe, commenting on Marc Lehmann saying that yes, he loved embedding perl in other applications and that no, he didn&39;t do drugs.Topics of InterestWrapping up EVAL handling in blead&39;s regexp engine Dave Mitchell checked in a couple of patches to fix the breakage that had crept in during the recent overhaul.http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.summary/2006/10/msg185.html |