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From:

Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes

Date:

January 11, 2004 13:34

Subject:

perl5.9.1 thoughts

Message ID:

20040111213417.GD2348@efn.org

What would you all like to see in 5.9.1?  What needs to be done to
make it happen?  Who is going to do it?

Here's what I'd like to see:
  mjd's lexical pragmas patch (what more is needed for this?)
  Rafael's my $_ patch        (ditto)
  Module::Build (& dependencies)
  CPANPLUS
  Some or all of Inline

Ilya had done some work towards making unpack be able to handle any C
structure, but IIRC it came just before a release (and there was some
question as to conflicting with what perl6 will do vis-a-vis pack and
unpack) and so was deferred.  I'd like to see this revisited.

I'd like to add:
  Hugo's regex rewrite
but don't know what's up with it :)

Nicholas had also said (in the "Snapshot perl@21938" thread):
> will there be a 5.9.0 soon? (Which would be a useful stake in the
> ground, Given that Arthur is keen to break everything by checking in his COW
> code)

Is this still pending?

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