Re: [RANT] Should we try to keep compatibility with old perl5s?

2018-08-17 Thread Rocco Caputo
problem from ever happening again." I agree that complaining is a significant problem. I look forward to hearing your final solution for it. -- Rocco Caputo

Re: Let's delete 10,000 files from CPAN

2014-04-25 Thread Rocco Caputo
and try to > place my ideas around it. Alas, poor P5EE. It was ahead of its time: http://www.officevision.com/pub/p5ee/index.html -- Rocco Caputo

Re: The end of 5.6 is nigh!

2011-11-16 Thread Rocco Caputo
On Nov 13, 2011, at 11:43, Zefram wrote: > Reini Urban wrote: >> 5.6.2 still is the fastest perl around. > > Evidently it's important to you to get the wrong answer as quickly > as possible. (Advice from Klortho #11912.) 4.036 would get you a wronger answer even faster! -- Rocco Caputo

Reflex extensions namespace?

2010-05-24 Thread Rocco Caputo
Dear CPAN Oracle: CPAN has a de facto standard of appending X to make "extensions" namespaces. Does that make sense for namespaces that end in X already? If not, please suggest alternatives. Thank you! -- Rocco Caputo - rcap...@pobox.com

Re: publish/subcribe model via network

2008-04-14 Thread Rocco Caputo
protocol) http://search.cpan.org/dist/POE-Component-Spread/ http://search.cpan.org/dist/POE-Loop-Wx/ http://search.cpan.org/dist/POE-Component-Jabber/ (and XMPP) -- Rocco Caputo - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: With the Macrame macro system, Perl may now be a Lisp.

2007-12-07 Thread Rocco Caputo
e code as an array using line numbers as offsets. Only the last line at a particular line number will display in the debugger. Around the time I wrote this, I kinda wished for non-integer line numbers. A 10-line expansion could have line numbers 14.1 through 14.10, with the original

Re: line numbers with Filter::Simple

2007-06-03 Thread Rocco Caputo
purpose. Does it have anything to do with OSX? :) -- Rocco Caputo - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: line numbers with Filter::Simple

2007-05-31 Thread Rocco Caputo
tever died: stuff at template whatever (defined in moo.perl at line 6) invoked from moo.perl line 9. -- Rocco Caputo - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How does Filter::Inline sound?

2006-03-12 Thread Rocco Caputo
ething singular like: Filter::SourceTemplate ... Filter::SourceTemplate::UseBytes Filter::CodeTemplate ... Filter::CodeTemplate::UseBytes Filter::Template ... Filter::Template::UseBytes -- Rocco Caputo - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How does Filter::Inline sound?

2006-03-11 Thread Rocco Caputo
parameters are literally expanded into macro bodies, which are then inserted into your code. The above example is compiled as: print (($one)>($two)?($one):($two)); It supports some other syntax, but the macros are the main attraction. -- Rocco Caputo - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Making RPMs out of CPAN Modules (namely XML::Feed) Automatically

2005-08-27 Thread Rocco Caputo
ng to do with me (Curtis Poe), "Ovid" also has nothing to do with me. I can't even claim that POE was here first. :) -- Rocco Caputo - http://poe.perl.org/

Re: RFC: some thoughts about daemons and related modules

2005-03-11 Thread Rocco Caputo
> > For the first, Net::Daemon is exactly the right module; however, > I haven't seen anything for the latter. Would POE be considered a superset or toolkit for the second case? -- Rocco Caputo - http://poe.perl.org/

Re: What to name the baby? (module naming advice)

2005-02-08 Thread Rocco Caputo
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 10:32:07AM +1300, Sam Vilain wrote: > Rocco Caputo wrote: > >I think it would be misleading to imply that this code only works with > >IRC. > > Even so, what you are doing is inherantly an IRC-ish thing to want to do. > > Wouldn't you sti

Re: What to name the baby? (module naming advice)

2005-02-08 Thread Rocco Caputo
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 10:32:07AM +1300, Sam Vilain wrote: > Rocco Caputo wrote: > >I think it would be misleading to imply that this code only works with > >IRC. > > Even so, what you are doing is inherantly an IRC-ish thing to want to do. > > Wouldn't you sti

Re: What to name the baby? (module naming advice)

2005-02-07 Thread Rocco Caputo
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 11:30:04PM -0600, David Nicol wrote: > there's an IRC top-level namespace, with IRC::Bot in it. > > On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 17:56:01 -0500, Rocco Caputo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've written a module that threads chat messages, but I don&#x

What to name the baby? (module naming advice)

2005-02-06 Thread Rocco Caputo
gt;new(); my ($msg_id, $referent_id) = $threader->observe($name, $text); The two return values are the new message's unique ID, and the ID of the message it most likely refers to. Here's Tk::Tree displaying some recent IRC chatter. http://poe.dyndns.org/~troc/tmp/irc-threads.png -- Rocco Caputo - http://poe.perl.org/

Re: Application framework namespaces

2004-05-17 Thread Rocco Caputo
(currently NetServer::) >etc As sensible as this is, I don't expect it to happen either. In fact, I would resist it. Revising, retesting, and redeploying POE based systems would cost thousands of man hours. A lot of people would be upset if they had to do it just for a name change. -- Rocco Caputo - http://poe.perl.org/

Re: IO::Epoll

2004-03-02 Thread Rocco Caputo
; library to use it. Have you considered a more portable solution like libevent? It's a single API for epoll (Linux), kqueue (BSD), poll(2), and select(2). Support for realtime signals and /dev/poll is also planned. Its home page is at http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ -- Rocco Caputo -

Re: Finding the module you want (was: New module Mail::SendEasy)

2004-02-16 Thread Rocco Caputo
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 11:57:15PM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > * Rocco Caputo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-02-12 11:29]: > > "Conveniently, I've written exactly the thing that provides the > > features I need, in a way that's most convenient for my > > pur

Re: Finding the module you want (was: New module Mail::SendEasy)

2004-02-12 Thread Rocco Caputo
ew process somewhat collaborative and self-correcting. It should eventually ensure a set of reviews that are fair and comprehensive. Or at least engender some interesting arguments. -- Rocco Caputo - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://poe.perl.org/

Re: Finding the module you want (was: New module Mail::SendEasy)

2004-02-10 Thread Rocco Caputo
nion (http://www.consumerreports.org/). They could compare programming languages, text editors, and operating systems. A number of long-standing holy wars could be ended once and for all. :) -- Rocco Caputo - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://poe.perl.org/

Re: Version Numbers

2004-01-11 Thread Rocco Caputo
2d", q$Revision: 1.23$ =~ /(\d+)\.(\d+)/); I do the same thing. For what it's worth, I think %02d is asking for trouble. Some of my modules have gone into triple-digit revisions: $VERSION = do [EMAIL PROTECTED](q$Revision: 1.273 $=~/\d+/g);sprintf"%d."."%04d"x$#r,@r}; -- Rocco Caputo - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://poe.perl.org/

Re: what to do with dead camels ?

2003-08-14 Thread Rocco Caputo
s broken code. Gallant keeps his code up to date, and lives in relatively unaccosted bliss." Which brings us back to e-mail validation. Since the testers are sending out all these notices, perhaps they could monitor and report on bounces. Other systems, like PAUSE, could use the information to prompt authors to fix their e-mail addresses when they log in. -- Rocco Caputo - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://poe.perl.org/

Re: what to do with dead camels ?

2003-08-03 Thread Rocco Caputo
hen it goes away. For those reasons, it might be better to offer dead camels to whoever wants to maintain them. If nobody steps forward after a time, then consider retiring them. At the very least, you can say: "Don't complain! You had your chance!" when they send you hate m

Re: RFC Text::UberText

2002-10-14 Thread Rocco Caputo
g. Lu = Lw - Lr If, as you say, Lu == 0, then it can be proven that your module adds nothing new to the CPAN. If this is the case, how useful is your module? How productive will your time be maintaining it? -- Rocco Caputo / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / poe.perl.org / poe.sf.net