Hey everyone,

Following is the p5p (Perl 5 Porters) mailing list summary for the past week.

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December 1st-7th

News and highlights

This holiday season you can adopt a Unicode character, news from the Unicode Consortium shared by Karl Williamson.

Yves Orton introduced (Hybrid OAATH variant for short keys, Siphash 1-3 for longer keys) a change to Perl's hashing. Interesting details.

Thorsten Behrens raised a problem with BashOnWindows and File::Find, incorrectly identifying the operating system. Leon Timmermans provided an update that this was already resolved by Microsoft.

Sawyer X wondered whether Module::Runtime should be introduced into core.

Grant reports

Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 report #152.

Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 October/November 2016 report.

Issues

New issues

Resolved issues

Suggested patches

Tony Cook provided a patch (and revised it again) for Perl #127663 (Safety for -i option).

Discussion

Sam Kington asked why does the debugger use single quotes when dumping strings?