November 2012 Archives

Perl 5 Porters Weekly: November 5-November 11, 2012

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

This week's topics are:

  • Perl 5.12.5 is now available
  • no easy link to quick hacking recipe?
  • -DNO_TAINT_SUPPORT in blead

Perl 5 Porters Weekly: October 29-November 4, 2012

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

This week's topics are:

  • perl-5.16.2 is now available
  • perl-5.12.5 RC1 is now available
  • What happened to the whole "small core" idea?
  • Eliminating the "rehash" mechanism for 5.18
  • benchmarking Murmurhash3 vs One-At-A-Time as perl's hash function

Perl 5 Porters Weekly: October 22-October 28, 2012

Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list. I'd hoped to get this published earlier, but it didn't happen.

In the US, we just switched back to "standard" time on Saturday. Rah, rah energy savings, but toddlers don't adapt well to legalistic time changes, so I was up and at 'em at the butt crack of dawn this morning.

Enough complaining, let's get to this week's topics. I hope you wanted a week full of discussion(?) around subroutine signatures, because that's what we got.

  • perl-5.16.2-RC1 is now available
  • 5.12.5 last call for patches
  • Consider Forbidding Developer Releases in Production Perls
  • No-taint support in Perl
  • What happened to the whole "small core" idea?
  • sub signatures
    • too many arguments
    • function to return the signature
    • too few arguments
    • status - I'm going quiet for a while ...

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