This Week on perl5-porters - 16-22 March 2008 by David Landgren- March 29, 2008 This Week on perl5-porters - 16-22 March 2008 "I suspect that by now the Parrot code base has moved on sufficiently that it&39;s faster and cleaner to start from scratch than to try to merge over that code. I might be wrong, but I&39;d suggest keeping "redo from start" as an option." -- Nicholas Clark, not wishing to flog a dead horse.Topics of InterestLexical "Fatal.pm" and "autodie.pm" We now return you to last week&39;s discussion about...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.summary/2008/03/msg207.html This Week on perl5-porters - 9-15 March 2008 by David Landgren- March 22, 2008 This Week on perl5-porters - 9-15 March 2008 Take our command, strip off the package, pass the short name and the calling package to "_make_fatal()", and then use magic-goto to call our subroutine at the end. It&39;s simple, right Yet I struggle to find any time when it&39;s correct. -- Paul Fenwick and his Fatal attraction.Topics of InterestGetting blead via git Nicholas Clark pondered the layout of files in the build directory. He thought that it would be useful to have..http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.summary/2008/03/msg206.html This Week on perl5-porters - 1-8 March 2008 by David Landgren- March 14, 2008 This Week on perl5-porters - 1-8 March 2008 "I personally think that the git tools have far too many ways to do the same thing (a complaint levelled against Perl itself at times) for the normal human to comprehend, let alone remember." -- John Peacock, gitting used to the idea of a new code repository.Topics of InterestExtUtils::Install updates Michael G. Schwern released a new version of the venerable "ExtUtils::MakeMaker" distribution, partly to include ...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.summary/2008/03/msg205.html This Week on perl5-porters - 24-29 February 2008 by David Landgren- March 6, 2008 This Week on perl5-porters - 24-29 February 2008 "Is this a bug Or why is this the expected behaviour" -- Steffen Ullrich, playing with signal handlers.Topics of Interest"use encoding &39;utf8&39;" bug for Latin-1 range The thread about "use encoding" continued this week. Juerd Waalboer gave one of the best concise explanations as to why the current model Perl uses for dealing with Unicode is broken, which is that the "x" hex escape is...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.summary/2008/03/msg204.html |