Perl Steering Council

Three of us again. Aristotle had limited time, Philippe and Graham stayed longer.

• Steve Hay released the RCs for for 5.38.3 and 5.40.1. Thank you!
• Philippe rebased his Perl 42 branch on top of blead after the release of v5.41.7. Things are on track to build a 41.8 testing tarball alongside the 5.41.8 release and we will keep this dual track going for now. We agreed that if we decide to go through with the 42 plan, we must have at least three 41.x-only releases, to keep with the feature freeze policy.
• We also considered the behavior of use VERSION when given a non-existent version from the gap between the last v5.41.x and 42. We think it should be an error, to continue helping with typos (in line with the current helpful error message when requesting e.g. 5.10 instead of 5.010).
• We talked about forbidding non-overloaded references stringification. Everyone seems in agreement that the feature is good to have, but the way to enable it is less clear for now: it could be a stricture, warning, feature flag, or pragma.
• We briefly touched on feedback on our preliminary plan for TLS in core, suggesting that an even simpler approach may be possible. We will pick this back up in a future call.

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