Paul Evans

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Still seems to fail on current bleadperl: ``` $ ./perl -Ilib -E 'use experimental "class"; class Animal; class Dog :isa(Animal); say "Hello"' perl: op.c:7737: Perl_newSVOP: Assertion `sv' failed. Aborted ```

Yes - I would find a "Live Show" mode very useful to lock out all the editing, putting it into a much simpler mode for operating the show for real,...

Looking at this now there doesn't seem to be any reason to keep it experimental.

The explanation for this is that, unlike most "weird kinds of values", vstrings are magicalised PVs themselves, rather than object refs. The value is directly an SV containing a PV...

> but we do not want to bless any specific plugin manager (which are all external projects). We certainly do not want `lazy.nvim` to become the official plugin manager (nice...

Yup, that looks like a useful test. I should be able to do something with that.

Indeed; `builtin::stringify` has a prototype of `($)`, i.e. takes a single scalar argument. It gets parsed as `builtin::stringify scalar @array`; and thus the expected result is a string containing the...

However I think it's a valid observation that the documentation doesn't point out this, so maybe some more words could be added to better explain it.

> The documentation on taint mode says that the only way to remove taint from a value is to perform a regexp capture on it, and look at the capture...

The current feature is fairly minimal in its ability. In 5.35 I hope to get around to importing more abilities from `Syntax::Keyword::Try`. * Typed dispatch - `catch($e isa Some::X)` and...