Perl Steering Council

All three of us met.

• Talked about the two “match case” proposals. The two seem to cover different intents, so it’s not clear that either just replaces the other. The destructuring concept is nice in principle but needs further discussion. We will let discussions continue on the mailing list for now.
• The PrePPC about @INC dirs seems good enough to progress to a full PPC document for further discussion of details; in particular specifics about non-UNIX operating systems.
• We want to find a more coherent concept for “hooking core functionality” and possibly the %{^HOOKS} hash in particular, before considering such possibilities as a replacable random number generator. E.g. do $SIG{__WARN__} and $SIG{__DIE__} belong in here?
• Specifically on providing a hook for generating random data, it feels like the rand() (and srand()) function interface provided by Perl is itself a limitation for getting good behaviour. This might need looking into before simply replacing a better source of randomness.

[P5P posting of this summary]