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Re: PSC #054 2022-02-11
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From:
Scott Baker
Date:
February 15, 2022 17:33
Subject:
Re: PSC #054 2022-02-11
Message ID:
52a9497c-f27e-0ea0-153f-a090927c6bb7@perturb.org
This is *all* good news. Thank you for your hard work.
I look forward to a future "non-tainted" Perl full of signatures.
On 2/15/2022 9:30 AM, Ricardo Signes wrote:
>
> The gang was all here: Neil, Paul, Rik.
>
>
> We discussed a few RFCs.
>
> The “configure option to disable taint” RFC had a couple questions we
> thought were resolved: how do we phrase the question in Configure
> (where the “not” goes!), and whether trying to use taint mode on a
> no-taint-mode perl is fatal. These were resolved and the RFC PR was
> merged.
>
> The “kv” proposal meant to help get index/value pairs of arrays for
> two-at-a-time iteration was up next. We closed it. I’m going to write
> up a new RFC for something like |indexed(@arr)|
>
> Ovid’s “modules” RFC PR was closed.
>
>
> We talked about signatures.
>
> There was a lot of discussion, here, but the big takeaway was that we
> all agree that signatures should be removed from experimental status,
> except for the use of |@_| inside a signatured sub, which gets an
> experimental warning, and which we think will surely change, given the
> significant speed-ups we expect can be wrung out of it.
>
> Further, they should be enabled under |use v5.36|, as part of our goal
> of providing the best possible perl we can with the least required
> boilerplate.
>
> We also want to make sure it’s clearly document, not only for general
> use, but that our documentation shows Perl being written in an
> up-to-date way. Once the general code freeze is in place, we’re hoping
> to make a pass through our docs to get them all up to date.
>
>
> source::encoding
>
> Karl has been doing some work on source::encoding — namely, making it
> work! Apart from making it work, our big question was whether we could
> feel good about making |use v5.36| imply |use source::encoding
> 'ascii'|, and the general consensus was, “yes, if we feel good about
> its tests.” I have begun making a modest pass at some tests, but
> definitely need to set aside some time for being a bit more aggressive
> in my approach.
>
> I’ll also be following up with Dan Kogai to make |use encoding| always
> fatal on new Perls.
>
>
> Bidirectional bracketing pairs
>
> We at least agreed that this isn’t going into the v5.36 feature
> bundle. The big question here is “can we curate a set of brackets such
> that they’re not problematically surprising.” So far, I think Karl is
> on the right track, but it needs some discussion.
>
>
> Experiments
>
> I’d like to get through a bunch more experiments, as I think a few
> more can yet be removed from experimental status, but we were running
> out of time. We only covered one: |isa|. On our call as p5p, there is
> general agreement that the |isa| operator can be removed from
> experimental status.
>
>
> --
> rjbs
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