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Perl 5 Porters Monthly: February 2013

By Perl 5 Porters Summaries on April 28, 2013 4:13 AM

cross posted from my own blog

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

Topics from this month include:

  • Will 5.18 also be smartmatch-challenged?
  • Perl 7 or Perl 2013?
  • EBCDIC support is on the chopping block
  • perlopentut
    • perlopentut modernization
    • Don't patch perlopentut: rewrite it completely
  • blockers on 5.18
    • blockers of 5.18.0: a foreword
    • blocker: $ENV{foo} = undef
    • blocker: disable new COW by default
    • blocker: "in cleanup" warnings from destructor
    • blocker: something about Data-Util
  • Salvaging lexical $_ from deprecation
  • deprecate @*, %*, &*, ** too
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