Re: PEVANS Grant Report January 2026

On Tue, Feb 3, 2026, at 8:58 AM, Paul "LeoNerd" Evans wrote:
> This month I managed to finish off a few refalias-related issues, as
> well as lend some time to help BooK further progress implementing
> PPC0014
> 
> 1   = Clear pad after multivar foreach
>        https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/240
> 
> 3   = Fix B::Concise output for OP_MULTIPARAM
>        https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24066
> 
> 6   = Implement multivariable `foreach` on refalias
>        https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24094
> 
> 1   = SVf_AMAGIC flag tidying (as yet unmerged)
>        https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24129
> 
> 2.5 = Mentoring BooK towards implementing PPC0014
> 
> 2   = Various github code reviews
> 
> Total: 15.5 hours
> 
> My focus for February will now be to try to get both `attributes-v2`
> and `magic-v2` branches in a state where they can be reviewed, and at
> least the first parts merged in time for 5.43.9, and hence 5.44, giving
> us a good base to build further feature ideas on top of.

Thanks Paul, +1 from me!

https://news.perlfoundation.org/post/pevans_core_dev_january_2026

-- Matthew Horsfall (alh)