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 5.18 and Regexp::Grammar
Damian Conway was able to reply to Dave Mitchell's email of a couple weeks ago. In it, Damian provides 3 test cases for common usage of the module which are broken.
RFC: $/="\R"; perl -0R
Karl Williamson writes that Perl violates a Unicode requirement, so he proposes extending $/ to permit a special value which indicates it should use the official Unicode record separators.
POSIX::foo() ignore UTF8ness
Karl Williamson points out that functions in the POSIX module treat input as bytes and not characters. He asks, "What should we do?"
postfix dereference syntax
Ricardo Signes shows off a diff of Dist::Zilla using the proposed postfix dereference syntax.
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