What's happening with Perl in the last week.
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I was surprised by one aspect of Perl's autovivification a few weeks ago, and I'm surprised it's taken over 20 years for me to run into it. I'm used to autovivification being a handy thing when working with, for example, hashes of arrayrefs. Here…
The Perl ShopAndy Lester explains how autovivification works in Perl (a feature where Perl fills in missing layers in your data structure when you try and assign data), why it's handy, and then looks at some more obscure aspects of it, including how to disable it.
You might think this a reasonable enough round-trip, just using two different JSON libraries, Mojo::JSON and Cpanel::JSON::XS. In fact, though, when you run this you'll see that $decode in the above is '/x{c3}/x{83}/x{c2}/x{a9}', not just the…
The Perl ShopFelipe Gasper talks about complications you might run into when JSON encoding or decoding Perl strings using Unicode, and suggests some alternate serialization formats that don't have the same issues.
In several of my nodes, I've used bisection to figure out when certain bugs/features were fixed/introduced. I find this useful because it'll often uncover the discussion that went into a feature or the detailed reasons behind a bug. I thought I'd…
The Perl Shophaukex posts a HOWTO on Perl Monks on how to find which Perl compiler version introduced a bug or behavior change using the bisect technique (find the commit (in this case release) that introduced a bug through a binary search).
This is a list of great CPAN modules released last week. A module is considered great if its favorites count is greater or equal than 12. Alien::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN Version: 2.04 on 2020-02-06 Previous version: 1.98…
This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 61 Week's winners (+3): Sub::MultiMethod Build date: 2020/02/08 21:11:12 GMT Devel::REPL::Plugin::ModuleAutoLoader - Autoloader Plugin for Devel::REPL Event::Distributor - a…
Latest releases New distributions Recent Favorites Popular Distributions Weekly Yearly All Time Recent Uploads River gauge Release Test-DependentModules-0.27 Test all modules which depend on your module 19 Jan 2019 22:15:21 GMT…
The Perl ShopImportant updates at CPAN last week include parent-0.238, Alien-Build-2.04, CGI-4.46, Scalar-List-Utils-1.54, Archive-Tar-2.36, Modern-Perl-1.20200201.
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