Re: What Are P5P's Plans?

* Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer <jeff@imaginative-software.com> [2013-02-12T00:48:31]
> I'm curious to know what p5p has planned for future releases of Perl.  I
> looked at rt.perl.org, but didn't see any obvious sign of milestones or
> priorities being recorded there.

Leon's response was right on the money.  This is what I wrote recently in
response to a similar question:

* I wrote:
> So, if the question is, "Where are we going next?" I'll say what I said in my
> 2012 talks on the subject: we're going wherever the patches take us. I have
> not seen the percentage in declaring a roadmap, because I am not going to be
> the one implementing features. I would like to try to improve the culture of
> the core development to allow people who want to contribute to do so easily,
> and I hope that those future contributors will help us produce a better
> language. Recently, for example, someone came forward with work on adding (!)
> core subroutine signatures. This work looks quite promising, and I hope to
> see it landed early in the version 19 series.
>
> Apart from that, certainly there are features that I'd like to see: fatal
> implicit closes, exception objects, a core MOP, possibly some form of
> autoboxing. I'd love to have an improved method for character/byte
> disambiguation, but it seems difficult to add without breaking existing
> abstractions. In the end, though, I am not the one who is going to be making
> these changes, so it would be foolish for me to put them forward as the clear
> roadmap.
>
> I really do welcome patches, because they're the thing that can actually
> drive the Perl 5 implementation forward, as opposed to talk about patches,
> which seems to come quite cheap.

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rjbs

• What Are P5P's Plans? by Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer
• Re: What Are P5P's Plans? by Ricardo Signes
• Re: What Are P5P's Plans? by Leon Timmermans
• Re: What Are P5P's Plans? by David Golden