PEVANS Grant Report August 2026

  1   = Investigation and fix of GH 24610
        "method does not warn of shadowed $self variable"
        https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/24610
        https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24738

  1   = Adding `usetaint` option to ./Configure
        https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24640

  1.5 = New `Socket` version; fix unit tests for "ftp" service,
        add gai_strerror()
        https://metacpan.org/release/PEVANS/Socket-2.043

  3   = Bugfix for GH 24705
        "newSVsv() loses taint marking on copied IVs and NVs"
        https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/24705

  1.5 = Final rebase and merge of value magic-v2 PR
        https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24508

  2   = Final rebase and merge PPC0030 PR (`equ` operator)
        https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24304

  1.5 = Continue work on attributes-v2 branch
        https://github.com/leonerd/perl5/tree/attributes-v2

  1   = Github code reviews

Total: 12.5 hours

My next steps aim to get attributes-v2 a little more ready for review
and merge, and also start investigating some new ideas alluded to in
the recent PSC mail (about better core support for per-user /
per-project @INC directories), as well as writing up a PPC document
about my match/case syntax module.

-- 
Paul "LeoNerd" Evans

[email protected]
http://www.leonerd.org.uk/  |  https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS