Re: What Would you like to see in a CPAN Distro Manager?

2009-09-06 Thread Dana Hudes
In regards inline POD: the technique is called literate programming. Documentation with code. An early such system was developed by Donald E. Knuth called Tangle and another component called Weave. Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with Nextel Direct Connect

Re: What Would you like to see in a CPAN Distro Manager?

2009-09-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sunday 06 September 2009 03:52:29 Dana Hudes wrote: > In regards inline POD: the technique is called literate programming. > Documentation with code. An early such system was developed by Donald E. > Knuth called Tangle and another component called Weave. > Well, as good inline POD is (and

Which Parser Generator to Use?

2009-09-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! Which parser generator do you recommend to use for a Perl project. What I've looked at so far: 1. Berkeley Yacc for Perl - works pretty well, but is kinda limited. 2. Parse::RecDescent - very impressive feature set, but a little slow, and has been under-maintained (though it seemed to

Re: Which Parser Generator to Use?

2009-09-06 Thread Ryan Voots
On Sunday 06 September 2009 10:40:44 Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi all! > > Which parser generator do you recommend to use for a Perl project. What > I've looked at so far: > > 1. Berkeley Yacc for Perl - works pretty well, but is kinda limited. Can't say i've used it before, but if its really Yacc then

Re: BigInt / pack problems

2009-09-06 Thread Shmuel Fomberg
Hi All. It is also possible to use Perl 5.8, with "Q" instead of "Q>". (it just will be machine-native instead of BE) Still, the results are the same. I also see reports from Perl 5.6.2 with 64 bit support. I get a weird result there with all-zeros. Help? (reminder: my module is Data::ParseBi

RE: BigInt / pack problems

2009-09-06 Thread Burak Gürsoy
> -Original Message- > From: Shmuel Fomberg [mailto:semu...@012.net.il] > Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 11:58 PM > To: module-authors@perl.org > Subject: Re: BigInt / pack problems > > Hi All. > > It is also possible to use Perl 5.8, with "Q" instead of "Q>". > (it just will be machine

RE: Developer releases?

2009-09-06 Thread Burak Gürsoy
> -Original Message- > From: David Golden [mailto:xda...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 8:36 AM > To: Burak Gürsoy > Cc: Shmuel Fomberg; module-authors@perl.org > Subject: Re: Developer releases? > > 2009/9/5 Burak Gürsoy : > >> From: Shmuel Fomberg [mailto:semu...@012.net.i