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Rafael Garcia-Suarez
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March 17, 2003 14:19
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This Week on perl5-porters (10-16 March 2003)
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This Week on perl5-porters (10-16 March 2003)
It's back, it's back, the weekly P5P summary, after two weeks of
vacation.
Pseudo-hash deprecation
Jarkko Hietaniemi asks the gang about the pseudo-hash deprecation in
perl 5.8.1. Currently, with maintperl, a deprecation warning is issued
whenever a pseudo-hash is accessed. This warning is not triggered by
pseudo-hash creation, because the "fields" pragma still legitimately
creates pseudo-hashes. However, the return value of "fields::new", when
used, will thus warn, being a (blessed) pseudo-hash. This is annoying,
because this very warning will disappear with perl 5.9.0, where
pseudo-hashes have been removed, and where "fields" uses restricted
hashes instead of pseudo-hashes.
Jarkko wondered whether the best solution would be to backport the
restricted-hash-based "fields" implementation in 5.8.1. Nicholas Clark
worries about backward compatibility. Rafael Garcia-Suarez proposes an
alternative solution, more conservative : to issue the deprecation
warning only when accessing unblessed pseudo-hashes. The discussion
continues.
http://archive.develooper.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/msg93050.html
Posixly////
A smoke run on bsdos 4.1 reminds us that, while POSIX requires trailing
slashes to be ignored on the arguments to system calls that represent
directories, this is not always implemented by the operating systems.
http://archive.develooper.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/msg93139.html
Imaginary signals
Rafael added a test to lib/Config.t to check that all signal numbers
found by the Configure script are positive. Unfortunately, signal
numbers may actually be, very legitimately, negative : e.g. on HP-UX
10.20. Jarkko then fixed Configure to ignore negative signal numbers,
and put in a couple of other corrections, too.
http://archive.develooper.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/msg93174.html
More briefly
Stas Bekman asked how to emulate an "eval {}" block in XS code.
http://archive.develooper.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/msg93048.html
Hugo van der Sanden and David Dyck are trying to find the cause of a
segfault that occurs with Parse::RecDescent under bleadperl (but not
under perl 5.8.0). This bug prevents Inline::C from working with
bleadperl.
Jos Boumans is setting up smoke boxes. He gave up installing
Darwin/Intel, an OS which appears to be more alpha than bleadperl.
Fergal Daly sent several bug-fix patches for Test::More.
Jerrad Pierce is working on the FileCache module.
Abigail finds out that localizing elements from the @_ array doesn't
work quite right. I'm not really surprised. Bug #21542.
Hiroo Hayashi proposes a patch for the FILE* typemap of Perl 5.8.0, to
prevent segfaults with "FileHandle"s in certain conditions. I'm not sure
I understand all the issues here. The relevant RT bug id is #21549.
http://archive.develooper.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/msg93145.html
Tim Maher reports that Regexp::Common and Filter::Simple can't be
apparently used together (bug #21574).
Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat reports an amusing parser bug, #21575, about a
lexical hash variable being suddenly understood as package-wise when
used in a weirdly-indented print() statement. A couple of hours later,
Enache Adrian comes up with a fix.
Hugo asks why the one-liner :
perl -le 'print $a++'
prints "0". Abigail doesn't find this behavior strange, and (as
expected) has "written code that depends on this". The discussion
continues.
http://archive.develooper.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/msg93265.html
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I'd like to thank everyone who provided support and encouragements.
Without them, I wouldn't have continued to write these summaries.
Enjoy !
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This Week on perl5-porters (10-16 March 2003)
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