This Week on perl5-porters - 17-23 February 2008 by David Landgren- February 28, 2008 This Week on perl5-porters - 17-23 February 2008 Nicholas: So, it seems that constant folding runs in "compile time", which scares me somewhat. Surely it should be running in run time Rafael: The whole point of compile time optimisation is that it runs at compile time, isn&39;t it Nicholas: Runs at compile time, but (I assume should) run under run time rules. There appear to be special exceptions scattered throughout the code that certain things aren&39;t fatal if...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.summary/2008/02/msg203.html This Week on perl5-porters - 10-16 February 2008 by David Landgren- February 21, 2008 This Week on perl5-porters - 10-16 February 2008 "So should we punt in this case and revert to the old warning for "SvGAMAGICAL" My personal opinion is to leave it. People doing strange things should not be surprised by strange results." -- Rick Delaney, debating the Principle of Least Surprise (or something like that).Topics of InterestStratus VOS patches Paul Green delivered his work to make perl 5.8, 5.10 and blead work on Stratus VOS. The main sticking...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.summary/2008/02/msg202.html This Week on perl5-porters - 3-10 February 2008 by David Landgren- February 14, 2008 This Week on perl5-porters - 3-10 February 2008 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason: "It would be a shame if we shipped a perl with known segfaults." Nicholas Clark (ever the pragmatist): "It wasn&39;t solved in 5.8.8 so it&39;s not a regression."Topics of Interest"pp_const" not that hot Nicholas Clark looked at an execution profile, and saw that in a given workset, "pp_const" is called around 200 million times, and in "if" ...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.summary/2008/02/msg201.html This Week on perl5-porters - 27 January-2 February 2008 by David Landgren- February 7, 2008 This Week on perl5-porters - 27 January-2 February 2008 "It&39;s a very naive implementation .... Given the scary comments Nicholas added in that code, I&39;d be grateful to see whether one can come up with a case where that breaks" -- Rafael Garcia-Suarez, warning about warning about undef.Topics of InterestIntegrating blead changes back to maint Some of the changes regarding Safe for 5.10 crept into the 5.8 maintenance track during change 33111, and Jerry D. Hedden...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.summary/2008/02/msg200.html |