Perl Steering Council

All three of us (plus Graham’s cat) met as usual.

• Discussions about some case-matching syntax ideas continue on the mailing list. PSC is following along but for now there does not seem to be a need to come to an official response.
• From this it sounds like finding a better solution to controlling Perl’s autovivification (especially in deep hash accesses) is a useful goal and can be pursued independently. Potentially addressed by optional chaining (PPC0021).
• Adding a builtin::rand_bytes function as per PR24722 sounds worthwhile. There are portability concerns that still need to be addressed on the subject of platform-dependent entropy sources (such as on VMS).

[P5P posting of this summary]