Hey everyone,

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

Enjoy!

October 10th-15th

News and Updates

This past week we held the 2nd Perl 5 Core Hackathon (P5Hack). We are organizing the information to prepare our report for this hackathon.

Meanwhile You can read the previous report.

Grant Reports

• Tony Cook TPF Grant 9 report 18.
• Tony Cook TPF Grant 9 report 19 (TONYC TPF Grant 9 report 19).

Issues

New Issues

• Perl #132158: negative-size-param in S_scan_formline.
• Perl #132255: 5.26.1 Perl_fp_class_denorm still incompatible with CentOS 5.
• Perl #132272: qw() differs from split " " with OGHAM SPACE MARK.
• Perl #132277: re eval stack unwinding.
• Perl #132298: Provide a way for distro maintainers to skip t/porting/customized.t.
• Perl #132301: a built-in startswith($string, $prefix) function.
• Perl #132304: Some code does not work under debugger.

Resolved Issues

• Perl #124349: Sys::Hostname::hostname warn on spurious arguments.
• Perl #131000: splice doesn't honor Internals::SvREADONLY.
• Perl #131982: getpriority and setpriority are underdocumented.
• Perl #132159: Use preprocessor check for some DEBUG_X_TEST calls in sv.c and toke.c.

Suggested Patches

Nick Koston provided a patch in Perl #132274 to improve Carp backtrace performance.