Re: PEVANS Grant Report December 2025

On Sun, Jan 4, 2026, at 6:07 AM, Paul "LeoNerd" Evans wrote:
> A mix of focus this month. I was hoping to get `attributes-v2` towards
> something that could be reviewed and merged, but then I bumped into a
> bunch of refalias-related issues. Also spent about 5 hours reviewing
> Dave's giant xspod rewrite.
> 
> 1 = Rename `THING` token in grammar to something more meaningful
>      https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23982
> 
> 4 = Continue work on `attributes-v2`
> 
> 1 = BBC Ticket on Feature-Compat-Class
>      https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/23991
> 
> 2 = Experiment with refalias parameters with defaults in
>      XS-Parse-Sublike
> 
> 1 = Managing the PPC documents and overall process
> 
> 2 = Investigations into the `refalias` and `declared_refs` features,
>      to see if we can un-experiment them
> 
> 2 = Add a warning to `refalias` that breaks closures
>      https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24026 (work-in-progress)
> 
> 3 = Restore refaliased variables after foreach loop
>      https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/24028
>      https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24029
> 
> 3 = Clear pad after multivariable foreach
>      https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24034 (not yet merged)
> 
> 6 = Github code reviews (mostly on Dave's xspod)
>      https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23795
> 
> Total: 25 hours

Thanks Paul. Plus one from me!

https://news.perlfoundation.org/post/pevans_core_dev_december_2025

-- Matthew Horsfall (alh)