Discussions - perl.perl5.porters

	What should \X match?
	I believe the current definition of \X is flawed. First of all it isn't the Unicode concept it purports to be. \X is defined as qr/(?>\PM\pM)/, and in several places in the documentation, it says that this is a Unicode "combining character sequence". The current definition for that concept is qr/ {base}? \pM \|... more » By Karl Williamson* - Nov 27 - 8 new of 8 messages

	use/package with "numeric literal" VERSIONs
	...This is a bug report for perl from frank.wieg...@gmail.com, generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.11.2. ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ----- This topic has already been partially mentioned, see [link]... more » By Frank Wiegand - Nov 27 - 1 new of 1 message

	perl -e 'eval { $::{"@"}="" }' => Segmentation fault
	...This is a bug report for perl from frank.wieg...@gmail.com, generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.10.1. ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ----- % perl -e 'eval { $::{"@"}="" }' zsh: segmentation fault perl -e 'eval { $::{"@"}="" }' This is still broken in 5.11.2.... more » By Frank Wiegand - Nov 27 - 3 new of 3 messages

	References to bracketing group that did not match
	Document backreferences to groups that did not match Also add a test for that, fill in test description, and sneak in a vim modeline for re_tests Cheers, Moritz By Moritz Lenz - Nov 26 - 1 new of 1 message

	POSIX::strftime() and Unicode [was: RE: Smoke [5.11.2] v5.11.2-81-g162177c FAIL(F) MSWin32 WinXP/.Net SP3 (x86/2 cpu)]
	...Content-Description: out.txt ...I see just above that test: ...my $orig_loc = setlocale(LC_TIME, "C") \|\| die "Cannot setlocale() to C: $!"; Does Windows setlocale() return non-failure, but actually fail to do anything? (Hence strftime() is still running in a Japanese locale) Nicholas Clark By Nicholas Clark - Nov 27 - 1 new of 1 message

	Strange behaviour in given ... when
	I am using ActiveState Perl 5.10.1 I recently stumbled over a case where a given ... when construct gave me false positives. Here is the test case: use strict; use warnings; use 5.010; use Test::More tests => 2; for my $thing ('3', ' 3') { my $test = sprintf '%d', $thing; my $result = ''; given ($thing) {... more » By Klaus - Nov 26 - 2 new of 2 messages

	Smoke [5.11.2] v5.11.2-81-g162177c FAIL(F) MSWin32 Win2000 SP4 (x86/1 cpu)
	Automated smoke report for 5.11.2 patch 162177c1aed1991639f7f0da64e918 c034e1148a v5.11.2-81-g162177c perl-win2k: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz(~3264 MHz) (x86/1 cpu) on MSWin32 - Win2000 SP4 using cl version 14.00.50727.42 smoketime 5 hours 59 minutes (average 44 minutes 55 seconds)... more » By "George Greer" - Nov 26 - 1 new of 1 message

	Perl RT#69678 can be closed
	[link] can be closed. It was fixed by one of Nicholas's patches to toke.c, probably [link] blead @ 162177c1aed1991639f7f0da64e918 c034e1148a: $ ./perl -Ilib utf.pl utf16le 123 bom nl... more » By Eric Brine - Nov 26 - 1 new of 1 message

memory problem of "eval" in perl 5.10?

Hello, We have a problem with the eval of the "new" perl 5.10. Before, a brief background. We have run several applications which were developed with design patterns, especially the state machine. In conjunction with a data flow logic, analogous to the Unix filter. Perl’s internal state of the state machine will be dumped at the end of every... more »

By christian4p...@lists.muthpartners.de - Nov 26 - 1 new of 1 message