Hey everyone,

Following is the p5p (Perl 5 Porters) mailing list summary for the past week.

Enjoy!

March 6th-12th

News and updates

Karl Williamson updates about a Unicode Emoji proposal (UTS #51, Unicode Emoji proposed update available).

Karl Williamson also updates that Unicode 10 Beta Review is now out (Unicode 10.0 Beta Review). There is also a branch available.

Grant reports

• Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 report 165.
• Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 February 2017 report.

Issues

New issues

• Perl #130958: inconsistent block/hash detection (again).
• Perl #130971: Cannot use refalias with subroutine signatures.
• Perl #130981: Confusing B::Deparse output with unless/elsif.

Resolved issues

• Perl #128302: split docs don't mention pattern modifiers.
• Perl #130921: Bleadperl v5.25.5-100-g2b5e7bc2e6 breaks JDDPAUSE/re-engine-GNU-0.021.tar.gz.

Discussion

Perl #32714 (Objects destroyed in the wrong order during global destruction) has been revived with a new discussion around destruction.