This Week on p6p 2001/02/18

Notes Please send corrections and additions to perl6-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the current year and month. We looked at over 400 messages this week, about a quarter of which were to do with garbage collection. Again. I’m afraid this…

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This Week on p5p 2001/02/12

Notes You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending an empty message to p5p-digest-subscribe@plover.com. Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the current year and month. I’ve been having mail problems this…

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This Week on p5p 2001/02/06

Notes You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending an empty message to p5p-digest-subscribe@plover.com. Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the current year and month. Wow. 600 messages this week, and…

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This Week on p5p 2001/01/28

Notes You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending an empty message to p5p-digest-subscribe@plover.com. Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the current year and month. There were 317 messages this week,…

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This Week on p5p 2001/01/21

Notes Notes sigsetjmp wrangling continues Safe Signals Large file support wrangling continues Multiple Pre-Incrementing Test::Harness Megapatch Tokeniser reporting and pretty-printing Unicode Various You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending an empty message to p5p-digest-subscribe@plover.com….

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This Week on p5p 2001/01/14

Notes Excising sigsetjmp Benchmarking UTF8 Heroism Cygwin versus Windows Lvalue lists Linux large file support Calls for papers Various Notes You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending an empty message to p5p-digest-subscribe@plover.com. Please send…

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This Fortnight on p5p 2000/12/31

Notes Fix for gv_handler segfault rsync needs occasional delete Outstanding Unicode fix New Solaris hints file Lots of lvalue hackery Stephen McCamant and Doug MacEachern week Things to investigate Various Notes You can subscribe to an e-mail version of…

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This Week on p5p 2000/12/24

Notes 5.6.1 Trial is out! Profiling Solaris and Sockets strtoul Language-sensitive editors Numeric conversion on HPUX Various Repository browser Dependency checker Unicode task use constant Updates Miscellany Notes You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by…

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This Week on p5p 2000/12/17

Notes Object creation and destruction More cool PerlIO stuff What to do with bugs UV Preserving Arithmetic Code checkers Precedence Reminder about the FAQ Various Notes You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending an…

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This Week on p5p 2000/12/03

Notes Tests Charnames Regular Expression Bug xsubpp Perlipc Examples Buggy PerlIO news Dodgy Function Names Lvalue Subs Various Notes You can subscribe to an e-mail version of this summary by sending an empty message to p5p-digest-subscribe@plover.com. Please send corrections…

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This Week on p5p 2000/11/27

Notes Regexp Engine SOCKS and Sockets for, map and grep Encode Licensing PERL5OPT Unicode on Big Iron Carp SvTEMP Locales and Floats Low-Hanging Fruit Miscellaneous Notes You can subscribe to an e-mail version of this summary by sending an…

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This Week on p5p 2000/11/20

Notes Fixing the Regexp Engine UTF8 and Charnames PerlIO (again) =head3 (again) New subs.pm Congratulations Various Notes You can subscribe to an e-mail version of this summary by sending an empty message to p5p-digest-subscribe@plover.com. Please send corrections and additions…

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This Week on p5p 2000/11/14

Notes stat vs. lstat Threads and POSIX PerlIO README.Solaris Locales Integer handling revisited =head3 Little fixes Various Notes You can subscribe to an e-mail version of this summary by sending an empty message to p5p-digest-subscribe@plover.com. Please send corrections and…

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This Week on p5p 2000/11/07

Notes Error number parsing VMS hackery The (f)crypt of mystery Yet more self-ties Rsync vs. FTP’ing the patches Changes to README.aix The Regex Stack Problem Things nobody’s fixed Craig Berry Various Notes You can subscribe to an email version…

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This Week on p5p 2000/10/30

Notes sprintf Parameter Re-ordering The Dangers (and bugs) of Unicode Self-Tying Is Broken Configure Confused By Changing Architectures Encode Switch Various Notes You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending an empty message to p5p-digest-subscribe@plover.com….

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This Week on p5p 2000/10/08

Notes Self-tying is broken Virtual values Why is unshift slow? More Perl hacking guidelines Integer and floating-point handling printf %v format bug fixed Jarkko impersonates me Various Notes First, the meta-news this week is that you have a new…

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