> To me, "P5P" means the perl5-porters mailing list,

Correct

> but having been subscribed there for a number of years,

I have to admit me not, I always had problems understanding the discussions.

> I can report that virtually nothing of any significance now happens there.

That's sad, I was recently adviced to probably ask there to move the debugger into its own repository, so I assumed it's alive.

My point was that vr's description is too abstract to be efficiently discussed here and might need a more specialized audience.

A set of examples per command or even better test cases would be needed to have a productive discussion here. °

> Could you elaborate on that ?

Clearer now?

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

°) e.g. compare this approach Re^5: foreach $1 -- all special variables

In reply to Re^5: (Some) inconsistencies with IO built-ins, their documentation and filehandle names ("symbolic references") by LanX
in thread (Some) inconsistencies with IO built-ins, their documentation and filehandle names ("symbolic references") by vr

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