This Week on perl5-porters - 18-24 May 2008 by David Landgren- May 30, 2008 This Week on perl5-porters - 18-24 May 2008 "Ah, more details about filenames. Well, this sounds positively weird. Octet strings are not particularly user-friendly if you can&39;t interpret them as characters reliably. From what you say, and what I think I&39;ve heard elsewhere, Unix filename interpretation is a mess. Seems like the only bigger mess I&39;ve heard about is VMS file handling, where they seem to have a choice of several messes." -- Glenn Linderman, deep in..http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.summary/2008/05/msg215.html This Week on perl5-porters - 11-17 May 2008 by David Landgren- May 24, 2008 This Week on perl5-porters - 11-17 May 2008 Dominic Dunlop: Trouble is, some of it is CGI, and people whinge loudly when previously-clean CGI starts warning. Ed Avis: Ha ha ha. I think any possible programmer mistake can be found in a Perl CGI program somewhere.Topics of Interest5.8.9-to-be on Irix David Cantrell took the time to track down the failures (regarding "Sys::Syslog") with the upcoming 5.8.9 release. Versions 0.13 (bundled with 5.8.8) through 0.18 both pass on.http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.summary/2008/05/msg214.html This Week on perl5-porters - 4-10 May 2008 by David Landgren- May 15, 2008 This Week on perl5-porters - 4-10 May 2008 Today, I was doing some mucking about with class data, generated packages, and "Class::ISA", and I started to wail and gnash my teeth. I cried, "Why can&39;t I just replace the darn object system" -- Ricardo Signes, a man with a method.Topics of Interestfascinating paper: heapsort with n log(n) - 0.9n comparisons Last week, Marc Lehmann had tossed out a link to an interesting paper he had read on heapsorts, with a new...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.summary/2008/05/msg213.html This Week on perl5-porters - 28 April-3 May 2008 by David Landgren- May 9, 2008 This Week on perl5-porters - 28 April-3 May 2008 "I&39;ve been playing around with MAD this morning ... The current state of the tests for MAD is a bit sad, though I hope to have something that will make interested porters glad in the near future". -- Jesse Vincent, not a bad lad to spend a tad on MAD. (gad, Dad! it&39;s not a fad).Topics of InterestMore on tainting Nicholas Clark thought that a of points Paul Fenwick made regarding late-acting taint weren&39;t borne out.http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.summary/2008/05/msg212.html This Fortnight on perl5-porters - 13-27 April 2008 by David Landgren- May 3, 2008 This Fortnight on perl5-porters - 13-27 April 2008 "Perl simply isn&39;t broken enough. Most things work too well, hence no-one finds that they need to fix their itch, so in turn, they don&39;t get sucked into core development generally. Maybe we need to start adding bugs, somewhat like a protection racket." "Your program works very nicely. It would be a shame if something went wrong with it, wouldn&39;t it ..." -- Nicholas Clark, on possible future...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.summary/2008/05/msg211.html |