PEVANS Core Perl 5: Grant Report for January 2024
Sun, 11-Feb-2024 by
Saif Ahmed
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< provided such an opportunty to
review what the Paul and the PSC has been upto, and may allow some insight of the [`builtin`](https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2024/01/msg267742.html) excitement that
is due to land with Verson 5.40.
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<table>
<tr><th>Date</th><th>Activity</th><th>Hours</th></tr>
<tr><td>2023/12/29</td><td>updates to `meta`, next version</td><th> 2</td></tr>
<tr><td>2021/12/31</td><td>further work on `meta`, add ->get method</td><th> 1</td></tr>
<tr><td>2024/01/03</td><td>Further experimentation with `meta`</td><th> 1</td></tr>
<tr><td>2024/01/04</td><td>`meta` experimental warnings</td><th> 2</td></tr>
<tr><td>2024/01/05</td><td>more `meta` warnings</td><th> 1</td></tr>
<tr><td>2024/01/05</td><td>meta get_or_add methods</td><th> 2</td></tr>
<tr><td>2024/01/11</td><td>Initial poking at qt strings ( [PPC0019](https://github.com/Perl/PPCs/blob/main/ppcs/ppc0019-qt-string.md) )</td><th> 3</td></tr>
<tr><td>2024/01/17</td><td>`use VERSION` to import builtin bundle</td><th> 4</td></tr>
<tr><td>2024/01/19</td><td>Reword builtin import for resetting</td><th> 3</td></tr>
<tr><td>2024/01/22</td><td>Add `builtin::inf` and `builtin::nan`</td><th> 0.5</td></tr>
<tr><td>2024/01/25</td><td>More inf + nan</td><th> 1</td></tr>
<tr><td>2024/01/25</td><td>Improvements to pad tombstone handling</td><th> 4</td></tr>
<tr><td>2024/01/26</td><td>Management of recent PRs</td><th> 1</td></tr>
<tr><td>2024/01/31</td><td>lexical subroutine shadow warnings</td><th> 3</td></tr>
</table>
#### ADDENDUM
Paul has submitted a more detailed report of his activity:
Hours:
9 = Updates to the `meta` module, a new CPAN release, adding a ->get
method, adding experimental warnings, ->get_or_add methods
https://metacpan.org/pod/meta
https://github.com/Perl/PPCs/blob/main/ppcs/ppc0022-metaprogramming.md
3 = Initial investigation into implementing PPC0019 "Quoted template
strings"
https://github.com/Perl/PPCs/blob/main/ppcs/ppc0019-qt-string.md
7 = Getting `use VERSION` to import a feature bundle
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/21850
1.5 = Adding builtin::inf and builtin::nan
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/21872
5 = Improvements to PADNAMEf_TOMBSTONE handling
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/21887
3 = Lexical subroutine shadow warnings
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/21915
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