Yves Orton

Add a tool which can clean up whitespace in a commit intelligently

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Add a tool which can clean up whitespace in a commit intelligently based on git-blame. Will ONLY modify lines that were changed unless asked to do the whole file. Will...

DRAFT: Replace checkAUTHORS.pl with updateAUTHORS.pl/updateAUTHORS.pm, allow users to be excluded

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In #20010 a user has asked that we do not list their name or email any of our latest files in the repo. This was a bit problematic as updateAUTHORS.pl...

The idea of this env var is to provide consistent behavior to scripts that call `srand()` with no arguments, either implicitly or explicitly. This is implemented in such a way...

Fix assorted bugs related to not having a UNIVERSAL::import

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Since perl 5.0 the methods "import" and "unimport" have been special cased in gv.c (unimport was removed for a while) to not produce errors if they are called. This is...

**Description** Many of our error message relating to sub names, method names, and package names do not curate their output. This means that the output can be very long and...

Allow ${0x10}, ${0b10000} and ${0o20} to be used as aliases for $16 under use strict.

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This PR assumes that the commit in #20000 will be merged and includes it for now. Treat `${0x10}` as `$16` and allowed under strict, similarly `${0b10000}` and `${0o20}`. Without strict...

**Description** Autovivification is one of perls strengths, it is also one of perls weaknesses. Some would argue that autovivification is intrinsically evil, personally I disagree, I think it is one...

Add documentation on slices on an array or hash element

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In PR #18827 Dan Jacobson requested we provide examples for slices on an array element or hash element, he struggled to get the patch right so I am pushing this...

whitespace fixups for "define\t"

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'#define' has seven characters, so following it with a \t makes it look like '#define ' when it is not, which then frustrates attempts to find where a given define...

Create Porting/MANIFEST.dev as a complement to MANIFEST

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This file is intended to list all the files in the repo which are not listed in the main MANIFEST file, and which are used only for development purposes, especially...