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The P5P Digest

This digest summarizes the activity on Perl 5 Porters list, the main mailing list for the core developers of the Perl language. Though Perl.com no longer publishes the weekly summaries, Perl.org's Perl 5 List Summaries continues to do so.

This Week on p5p 2001/10/21
What's left before 5.8.0, the POD specification, test-fu and more. [Oct. 21, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/10/07
Code cleanups, attributes, tests from chromatic, and more... [Oct. 10, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/09/03
Michael Schwern, Coderefs in @INC (again), localising things, and more... [Sep. 3, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/08/27
vstrings, callbacks, coderefs in @INC, and more... [Aug. 27, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/08/15
POD specification, Unicode work, threading and more! [Aug. 15, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/08/07
Subroutine Prototypes, the Great SDK Debate, and much more! [Aug. 8, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/07/30
Hash "clamping", a meeting of the perl-5 porters at TPC, and more! [Aug. 1, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/07/16
5.7.2 is out, some threading fixes, and much more. [Jul. 16, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/07/09
No 5.8.0 yet, numeric hackery, worries about PerlIO and much more. [Jul. 9, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/07/02
Module versioning and testing, regex capture-to-variable, and much more. [Jul. 2, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/06/25
5.7.2 in sight, some threads on regular expression, and much more. [Jun. 25, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/06/17
Miscellaneous Darwin Updates, hash accessor macros, and much more.  [Jun. 19, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/06/09
Removing dependence on strtol, regex negation, and much more. [Jun. 12, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/06/03
Improving the Perl test suite, Warnings crusade, libnet in the core, and much more.  [Jun. 4, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/05/27
Attribute tieing, Test::Harness cleanup, and much more.  [May. 27, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/05/13
The to-do list, safe signals, release numbering and much more. [May. 13, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/05/06
iThreads, Relocatable Perl, Module License Registration, and much more. [May. 6, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/04/29
MacPerl 5.6.1, Licensing Perl modules, and much more. [Apr. 29, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/04/22
Modules in the core, Kwalitee control, and much more. [Apr. 22, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/04/15
perlbug Administration, problems with tar, and much more. [Apr. 15, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/04/08
Perl 5.6.1 and Perl 5.7.1 Released(!), and much more.  [Apr. 8, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/04/02
Perl and HTML::Parser, Autoloading Errno, Taint testing, and much more.  [Apr. 2, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/04/01
Perl and HTML::Parser, Autoloading Errno, Taint testing, and much more.  [Apr. 1, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/03/26
use Errno is broken, Lexical Warnings, Scalar repeat bug, and much more.  [Mar. 26, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/03/19
Robin Houston vs. goto, more POD nits, and much more.  [Mar. 19, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/03/12
Pod questions, patching perly.y, EBCDIC and Unicode, plus more.  [Mar. 12, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/03/05
Coderef @INC, More Memory Leak Hunting, and more. [Mar. 5, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/02/26
Overriding +=, More Big Unicode Wars, and more. [Feb. 28, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/02/12
Perl FAQ updates, memory leak plumbing, and more. [Feb. 14, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/02/06
Perl 5.6.1 not delayed after all, MacPerl, select() on Win32, and more.  [Feb. 6, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/01/28
5.6.x delayed, the hashing function, PerlIO programming documentation, and more. [Jan. 30, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/01/21
Safe signals; large file support; pretty-printing and token reporting.  [Jan. 24, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2001/01/14
Unicode is stable! Big performance improvements! Better lvalue subroutine support!  [Jan. 15, 2001]

This Fortnight on p5p 2000/12/31
Unicode miscellany; lvalue functions.  [Jan. 9, 2001]

This Week on p5p 2000/12/24
5.6.1 trial release; new repository browser; use constant [Dec. 27, 2000]

This Week on p5p 2000/12/17
More Unicode goodies; better arithmetic; faster object destruction.  [Dec. 17, 2000]

This Week on p5p 2000/12/10
Unicode support almost complete! Long standing destruction order bug fixed! Rejoice!  [Dec. 11, 2000]

This Week on p5p 2000/12/03
Automatic transliteration of Russian; syntactic oddities; lvalue subs.  [Dec. 4, 2000]

This Week on p5p 2000/11/27
Enhancements to for, map, and grep; Unicode on Big Iron; Low-Hanging Fruit.  [Nov. 27, 2000]

This Week on p5p 2000/11/20
Major regex engine enhancements; more about perlio; improved subs.pm.  [Nov. 20, 2000]

This Week on p5p 2000/11/14
lstat _; more about perlio; integer arithmetic.  [Nov. 14, 2000]

This Week on p5p 2000/11/07
Errno.pm error numbers; more self-tying; stack exhaustion in the regex engine.  [Nov. 7, 2000]

This Week on p5p 2000/10/30
More Unicode; self-tying; Perl's new built-in standard I/O library.  [Oct. 30, 2000]

These Weeks on p5p 2000/10/23

Perl's Unicode model; sfio; regex segfaults; naughty use vars calls.

 [Oct. 23, 2000]

This Week on p5p 2000/10/08
Self-tying is broken; integer and floating-point handling; why unshift is slow. [Oct. 8, 2000]

This Week on p5p 2000/07/09
The Perl bug database; buildtoc; proposed use namespace pragma; a very clever Unicode hack.  [Jul. 9, 2000]

This Week on p5p 2000/07/02
Lots of Unicode; method lookup optimizations; my __PACKAGE__ $foo.  [Jul. 2, 2000]

Notes on Doug's Method Lookup Patch
Simon Cozens explains the technical details of a patch that was sent to p5p this month.  [Jun. 27, 2000]

This Week on p5p 2000/06/25
More method call optimization; tr///CU is dead; Lexical variables and eval; perlhacktut.  [Jun. 25, 2000]

This Week on p5p 2000/06/18
Method call optimizations; more bytecode; more unicode source files; EPOC port. [Jun. 17, 2000]

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