This Week on perl5-porters - 14-20 June 2008 by David Landgren- June 27, 2008 This Week on perl5-porters - 14-20 June 2008 David Nicol: Does pushing all exceptions to whenever $ gets assigned to break anything Abigail: In theory, it could, as is a "normal" array that can be used as such. But I doubt anything serious will break. I&39;d say anyone that uses a punctuation variable that currently has no special meaning does so at hisher own risk, and doesn&39;t have the right to complain if it does get special meaning. -- Abigail, suggesting that..http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.summary/2008/06/msg219.html This Week on perl5-porters - 7-13 June 2008 by David Landgren- June 22, 2008 This Week on perl5-porters - 7-13 June 2008 This morning, clkao pinged me and mentioned that he couldn&39;t get perlbug to set the From: header when sending a bug report. I promised him I&39;d take a look. I opened up perlbug determined to add one line and send a patch. Somehow, I never got around to adding the line CL asked for... -- Jesse Vincent, getting a finger caught in the machine.Topics of InterestRT bugtrackers, note the changes in 5.10 H.Merijn Brand wished to draw...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.summary/2008/06/msg218.html This Week on perl5-porters - 1-6 June 2008 by David Landgren- June 14, 2008 This Week on perl5-porters - 1-6 June 2008 Traditional exception handling is more like equipping each Klingon with a dead-man&39;s switch attached to a nuke. Dying by accident in someone else&39;s nuke blast would be a death without honor. So the point of the Perl 6 exception model is to try to keep as many warriors alive as long as possible in order to inflict the maximum possible damage on the enemy, which is our highest goal, after all. :) -- Larry Wall, on the issue of dealing.http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.summary/2008/06/msg217.html This Week on perl5-porters - 25-31 May 2008 by David Landgren- June 5, 2008 This Week on perl5-porters - 25-31 May 2008 "I&39;ve fixed the bug itself as change 33952. (Whoo hoo! A bug that was easy to locate, fix, and test for. You don&39;t see that very often :-)" -- Dave Mitchell, happy man.Topics of Interest"File::Path::mkpath()" incompatibility in perl-5.10 David Landgren replied to Jan Dubois on the subject of inodes on Win32. "perlport" says the second value in the return list from...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.summary/2008/06/msg216.html |