Re: [ANNOUNCE] Test::Warn::None 0.02

2003-06-25 Thread Adrian Howard
Hiya, On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 07:09 pm, Fergal Daly wrote: On Wednesday 25 June 2003 17:49, Adrian Howard wrote: The thread from the start of May about having optional / extendable plans supported by Test::Harness would seem to be a good match for this feature. http://archive.d

Re: blocks and subplans again

2003-06-25 Thread Adrian Howard
I could throw up a Wiki somewhere if people think it would be useful (I've been looking for an excuse to play with CGI::Kwiki). (IRC is to scary a time sink for me ;-) Adrian On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 07:14 pm, Fergal Daly wrote: On Wednesday 25 June 2003 17:56, Andy Lester wrote: This

Re: blocks and subplans again

2003-06-25 Thread Fergal Daly
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 17:56, Andy Lester wrote: > This is something Schwern and I have discussed before, and that I > would LOVE to put into Test::Harness, if only we could hash out the > specifics. Are you ever in AIM/IRC? I'd kinda like to have an > online workgroup to thrash on the spec

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Test::Warn::None 0.02

2003-06-25 Thread Fergal Daly
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 17:49, Adrian Howard wrote: > The thread from the start of May about having optional / extendable > plans supported by Test::Harness would seem to be a good match for this > feature. > > http://archive.develooper.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01883.html (Plan is > YAG

Re: blocks and subplans again

2003-06-25 Thread Andy Lester
Why would you want to do this? Simple example. This is something Schwern and I have discussed before, and that I would LOVE to put into Test::Harness, if only we could hash out the specifics. Are you ever in AIM/IRC? I'd kinda like to have an online workgroup to thrash on the specifics... xoa

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Test::Warn::None 0.02

2003-06-25 Thread Adrian Howard
On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 07:53 pm, Michael G Schwern wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 12:07:19PM +0100, Fergal Daly wrote: Consider the following. use Test::More; use Test::Warn::None; plan tests => 42; To make this work I'd have to overhaul the internal Test::Builder planning sy

blocks and subplans again

2003-06-25 Thread Fergal Daly
I just wanted to bring up nested blocks and sub-plans again. I've been hacking around in Test::Builder and I've implemented something that works and does something that I think is useful. It allows you to write tests that have output like 1..5 ok 1 - pass ok 2 - fail 1..3 a nested set of test

Re: [perl #22765] Unary '+' is not symmetric to unary '-' in languages/perl6

2003-06-25 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Bernhard Schmalhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Bernhard Schmalhofer > # Please include the string: [perl #22765] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=22765 > > Hi, > when playing with

Re: Lightweight Object Existance Proxies

2003-06-25 Thread Piers Cawley
Further to the lightweight proxy thing, one of the things that proves to be something of a pain in Pixie is writing 'self replacing' proxies, where, once something is actually fetched from the database, the proxy should go away. You can't simply assign to $_[0] (at least in Perl 5) because that doe

Re: Exceptions

2003-06-25 Thread Luke Palmer
> > I'm not yet sure whether it's worth having engine support for > > specific exception type checking > > I think we would have: > - Exception handler = Continuation > - Exception object = a new class of some type[2]. When the system throughs > an exception, it would attach 2 properties to the

Re: Exceptions

2003-06-25 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Exception handlers really strike me as anonymous lexically scoped > subroutines that get called with just one parameter--the exception > object. As far as the engine should be concerned, when an exception > is taken we just take a continuation with the addr