Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl with Lua in the OpenBSD Base System

2019-12-31 Thread danieljboyd
Certainly, there are situations where perl isn't the best choice. And in those unfortunate situations, other languages may be considered, however begrudgingly. :) I'm curious to know if there are any languages other than C and perl in use in OpenBSD base. On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 05:39:03PM +0100,

Re: perl popularity inside openbsd community? (Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl ...)

2020-01-02 Thread danieljboyd
I don't understand why people say that perl's flexibility is a negative. Bad code is a negative. You can have bad or inconsistent code even in a language like python that has very rigid syntax. As long as you know perl well, you should be able to read any well-written perl code. To me, both of t

Re: perl popularity inside openbsd community? (Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl ...)

2020-01-02 Thread danieljboyd
What if you want named parameters? (i.e. sending a hash as your argument) sub m4 { my $self = shift; my %args = @_; # and then optionally my ($arg1, $arg2, $arg3) = @args{qw/arg1 arg2 arg3/}; # or you can just use $args{arg1}, etc... } On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 09:12:42PM +01

Re: 6.5 PowerPC Packages

2019-05-09 Thread danieljboyd
On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 08:55:40AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > The real reason is because we're low on current for the flux capacitor, > after shifting time for the early 6.5 release. Not all the machines > were able to fit into back seat of the Delorian. > Come on Theo, everybody knows that y

Re: Lenovo w/ AMD Ryzen CPU

2019-05-28 Thread danieljboyd
I just ordered some E495s (not 'T', but pretty similar). I think they're supposed to arrive today. I'll do a test boot and send in a dmesg. On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 10:44:44AM -0400, David Anthony wrote: > All, > > The Lenovo release of T*95 series laptops with AMD Ryzen CPU appears > imminent.

Re: Lenovo w/ AMD Ryzen CPU

2019-05-31 Thread danieljboyd
On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 10:52:53AM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 09:58:58AM -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > > David Anthony [d...@silentsystems.org] wrote: > > > All, > > > > > > The Lenovo release of T*95 series laptops with AMD Ryzen CPU appears > > > imminent. > > > >