Perl Steering Council

This week, the three of us:

• noted that use VERSION restrictions have had mostly positive responses
• thought that Data::Printer can’t go in core as-is, but there’s a use case for a debugging helper, some of which might be hidden in D:P’s core
• discussed adding a builtin::numify function (and the corresponding OP in core)
• quickly reviewed the PPCs currently being implemented:
  • we should ping the implementors of PPC0014 (English names) and PPC0021 (optional chaining)
  • PPC0022 (meta) has an implementation on CPAN
  • PPC0019 (qt strings) implementation is in progress, but unlikely to be done by 5.40
  • PPC0013 (overload in join) is currently stalled