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

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