Welcome to Perl 5 Porters Weekly, a summary of the email traffic of the perl5-porters email list.

Topics this week include:

experimental? internal functions with M flag

experimental? Sun Studio Compilers for Linux OS

perlopentut branch for review

experimental? internal functions with M flag

RJBS writes that he's removing this section from perlexperiment that talks about functions with an M flag. This flag denotes that the function is "experimental" and may change or be removed without further notice.

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experimental? Sun Studio Compilers for Linux OS

Using Sun Studio Compiler for the Linux OS is marked as experimental. RJBS notes it's more accurate to say that

"We'd like it to work, nobody seems to be smoking it, we don't know whether it works." We treat it like any other platform.

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perlopentut branch for review

In February, Tom Christiansen sent in a perlopentut rewrite which RJBS added to a branch for review.

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