Perl 5.30.0 represents approximately 11 months of development since Perl 5.28.0 and contains approximately 620,000 lines of changes across 1,300 files from 58 authors.

That's about 1.5 line-changes per minute on average over 11 months - can that really be true or am I misunderstanding this metric?

Changes are not dominated by code, but external data.

› git diff --stat v5.28.0 v5.30.0 | sort -t'|' -k2 -n | tail -n 10
 .../Locale-Codes/lib/Locale/Codes/LangExt_Codes.pm |   2898 -
 pod/perldelta.pod                                  |   2937 +-
 .../lib/Locale/Codes/Currency_Codes.pm             |   3030 -
 cpan/Locale-Codes/lib/Locale/Codes/Script_Codes.pm |   3806 -
 regcomp.c                                          |   8905 +-
 uni_keywords.h                                     |  13929 +--
 .../Locale-Codes/lib/Locale/Codes/Country_Codes.pm |  14764 ---
 cpan/Unicode-Collate/Collate/allkeys.txt           |  56368 +++++----
+-
 charclass_invlists.h                               |  70965 +++++++--
+---
 .../lib/Locale/Codes/Language_Codes.pm             | 100760 ---------
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Didn't they unify the indentation style?
map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

I ran out of time and enthusiasm to get signatures sorted for 5.30. Hopefully this will get gone for 5.32 instead.

Dave.

Thank you for all the work you have put into Perl! And if it helps to hear it, I would absolutely love to see signatures come out of experimental state! :-)

That's sad ... :(

Thanks for your efforts!!! :)

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}

Don't know about sigs, but variable length lookbehind in regex is something I've been desiring for many years!

Sigs are still experimental. https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/perl/pod/perlexperiment.pod#Subroutine-signatures

The RT ticket for the experiment depends on this open ticket: https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132444.

Hopefully it gets resolved soon.