Perl 5 Porters Weekly: August 5-11, 2013

Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list.

Topics this week include:

  • perl 5.18.1-RC3 is now available
  • perldoc perlre does not appear to mention /r
  • Perl 5.18 and Regexp::Grammars
  • "\c\" is a syntax error
  • Apologies and good news
  • postfix dereference syntax
  • Cuckoo packages aren't listed in Module::Corelist

Perl 5 Porters Weekly: July 29-August 4, 2013

Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list.

Topics this week include:

  • perl 5.18.1-RC2 is now available
  • Perl 5.18 and Regexp::Grammars
  • Empty regular expression does not match in some cases
  • Using braces on 'if'
  • refactoring of regex execution / calling

Perl 5 Porters Weekly: July 22-28, 2013

Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list. Sorry this summary is a little short on the summary part. It's more of a link-o-rama this week.

Topics this week include:

  • perl 5.19.2 is now available
  • upcoming release of 5.18.1
  • Try/Catch Exception Objects: Possible?
  • The value of a good perldelta
  • NWCLARK TPF grant May report
  • NWCLARK TPF grant June report

Perl 5 Porters Weekly: July 15-21, 2013

Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list. I'm at OSCON this week, so if you're in town, please come to one (or both) of my talks. One is about replacements for LWP::UserAgent and the other is about DTrace in Perl, Python and Erlang.

Topics this week include:

  • Perl 5.18 and Regexp::Grammar
  • RFC: $/="\R"; perl -0R
  • POSIX::foo() ignore UTF8ness
  • postfix dereference syntax

Perl 5 Porters Weekly: July 8-14, 2013

Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list.

Topics this week include:

  • experimental? internal functions with M flag
  • experimental? Sun Studio Compilers for Linux OS
  • perlopentut branch for review