It's really "pumpking", but most people say and spell it "pumpkin". As in, the person responsible for a particular Perl release. If you're not the Pumpking, you can only suggest changes to the next release, and you hope the pumpking approves.
-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
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No it was "pumpgun", but because of bloody copyright conflicts with the NRA, Larry changed it to "pumpkin".
Believe the Perlman!
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Pumpkins can be very dangerous! Beware!
er, no, wait, that's something else... nevermind...
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see perlhist
print+qq(\L@{[ref\&@]}@{['@'x7^'!#2/"!4']});
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To give you an idea, the 5.12 pumpking set the overall goal/theme of the release, he set priorities, he set feature freeze dates, and more. | [reply] |