PEVANS Core Perl 5: Grant Report for October 2025
Wed, 05-Nov-2025 by
alh
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Paul writes:
The main event from this month has been getting the signature named
parameters (PPC0024) branch finalised and merged.
* 4 = Improvements to unit tests around subroutine signatures
* https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23822
* https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23868
* 11 = Signature Named Parameters branch
* https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23871
* 2 = Investigations into possible performance enhancements of pp_multiparam
* https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2025/10/msg270428.html
* 1 = Improvements to named parameter error reporting
* https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23888
* 2 = Other github code reviews
Total: 20 hours
My aim for November is to let the dust settle a bit on signature
parameters, and turn my attention to either Magic v2 or Attributes v2,
aiming to have something that can interact better with signatures in
time for the 5.44 release.
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