Hey everyone,

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

Enjoy!

March 28th - April 3rd

Grant reports

• Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 report 169.
• Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 March 2017 report.

Issues

New issues

• Perl #131069: do file: Add ./ in additional cases.
• Perl #131083: Bleadperl v5.25.10-81-gd69c43040e breaks JV/App-PDF-Link-0.18.tar.gz.
• Perl #131085: segfault with symbol table and coderef.
• Perl #131087: ${^MATCH} not set without /p (contrary to docs).
• Perl #131093: perl test suite bug.

Resolved issues

• Perl #24936: Severe regexp performance problem compared to 5.6.
• Perl #69652: push @INC, sub { \[] }; -> crash.
• Perl #78192: gv_try_downgrade leaves dangling pointers during global destruction.
• Perl #88080: Listen to socket does not return when host is undefined or 0.0.0.0.
• Perl #105910: eval return value is only sometimes copied.
• Perl #107874: installhtml likely isn't Unicode sane.
• Perl #114566: Dealing With Freed Memory Bugs in General in the Interp.
• Perl #122099: Perl regression bug since 5.13.11 (masked by CoW since 5.19.1).
• Perl #126613: Segmentation fault in S_do_trans_count.
• Perl #128994: Bug #128995 for perl5: Environment variables are not always propagated to sub-process.
• Perl #129119: Assertion Failure: pp_ctl.c.
• Perl #130759: perldoc error in strawberry-perl-5.24.1.1-64bit-portable on Windows 10.
• Perl #131083: Bleadperl v5.25.10-81-gd69c43040e breaks JV/App-PDF-Link-0.18.tar.gz.

Rejected issues

• Perl #125461: mro next::method doesn't work from imported method.
• Perl #130614: Bug: Errno_pm.PL:135.

Discussion

Dan Book suggested (RFE: Multiple-alias syntax for foreach) a syntax change, allowing foreach to handle multiple elements when iterating.