Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

Jonathan, while you are well-meaning in your comments, you are mis-reading what I have said multiple times and are therefore making a straw man argument against it. Regarding this point: >5. All details used to construct a connection handle should be completely decomposed rather than shoved

MML dispatch (was: Hackathon notes)

Larry wrote: > I would like to point out that for mere mortals, *any* MMD is already too > complex to be predictable. This is the relevant observation here. This particular mortal's experience is that more than four variants, involving parameters from more than two hierarchies makes it nearly

Re: User-defined infix subs/methods?

On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 11:34:23PM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote: : In Pugs's ext/Set/lib/Set.pm, there are a number of user-defined : infix operators. To avoid unicode in mails, I'll use a hypothetical : &infix:<===> as the operator name. We've intentionally been using Unicode in this mailing list

Re: #define cache obj.u

On Jul 9, 2005, at 19:37, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 06:52:28PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: No, for sure not. And AFAIK it's not needed nor used. Please drop this line. Done, although curiously it did involve changing 1 line in io/io.c Thx. Fixed that line too. Nic

[perl #36493] pmc2c.pl's shortcut to conditionally write the dump file is buggy.

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Re: #define cache obj.u

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 06:52:28PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > No, for sure not. And AFAIK it's not needed nor used. Please drop this line. Done, although curiously it did involve changing 1 line in io/io.c Nicholas Clark

User-defined infix subs/methods?

In Pugs's ext/Set/lib/Set.pm, there are a number of user-defined infix operators. To avoid unicode in mails, I'll use a hypothetical &infix:<===> as the operator name. Consider the sub case: class Set; sub infix:<===> (Set $x, Set $y) { ... } Is it correct that this line: Set.new =

Re: method calls on $self

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 05:43:01PM +0200, Robin Redeker wrote: : Maybe per .-file in the home-directory, like .vimrc ... Only if pulled in with a "use". I don't want to see Perl programs implicitly starting in a variant language. Dialects must be declared. Otherwise you're in a situation like ha

Re: method calls on $self

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 08:28:34PM +0200, Robin Redeker wrote: : On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 10:07:24AM -0400, Stevan Little wrote: : > I have never understood what is wrong with this: : > : > method foo ($self: $bar) { : > $self.baz() : > } : : Thats a fine option to have. : But therecomes anoth

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

* Adrian Howard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > http://www.annocpan.org/~ADAMK/ > > Complete with RSS feed :-) Sweet! This should be noted more predominately on the site :) -- Jeff Bisbee / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / jbisbee.com

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

On 8 Jul 2005, at 20:08, Adam Kennedy wrote: [snip] There's no way to get a listing of the annotations for a given author id, or even for a given dist. So I'm reduced to manually looking through a thousand odd web pages to find potential changes or improvements to the code. [snip] htt

Re: backtick units (Was: File.seek() interface)

Wolverian wrote: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 05:58:53PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: >>$fh.pos = $fh.pos + 10`lines > > I'm sorry if this has been discussed, but is the ` going to be in > Perl 6? I like it. :) I was hoping it was going to be in the standard library, but non-core. Using it for manip

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

Still late to the party - another one bullet point item... On 7/4/05, Darren Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 4. All host parameters should be named (like ":foo") rather than > positional (like "?"), meeting with the SQL:2003 standard. The named > format is a lot easier to use and flexible, ma

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

Jared Still wrote: I use a (Perl) password server for this. Passwords are stored encrypted in a configuration file. Clients authenticate with the server, and receive a requested password (encrypted) across the network, if the client is entitled. The user authentication is rudimentary, but it

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

Late to the ball - and only picking up on one issue... On 7/4/05, Darren Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2. Always separate out any usage stages that can be performed apart > from the database itself. This allows an application to do those > stages more efficiently, consuming fewer resources

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

At 1:22 AM -0700 7/9/05, Jonathan Leffler wrote: On 7/4/05, Darren Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: 5. All details used to construct a connection handle should be completely decomposed rather than shoved into an ungainly "data source". Examples of what should be dist

Perl6 burns 18% fewer calories

In other words, Huffman coding works and Perl6 hackers had better start watching their waistlines. Or maybe we should spin it that Perl6 helps reduce global warming ;) Anyway, I collected a small sample (~300 lines each) of Perl5 code along with "equivalent" Perl6 code. Some came from the Exeges

Re: method calls on $self

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 10:07:24AM -0400, Stevan Little wrote: > > On Jul 8, 2005, at 2:10 AM, Robin Redeker wrote: > >And what will be the default syntax to call > >a method on self? If everyone has completly other > >preferences about this, for example this horrible ./method() > >syntax, which c

Re: method calls on $self

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 08:50:35AM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: > On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 08:10:00AM +0200, Robin Redeker wrote: > > And what will be the default syntax to call > > a method on self? If everyone has completly other > > preferences about this, for example this horrible ./method(

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

At 1:03 AM -0700 7/9/05, Jonathan Leffler wrote: Can you explain which parts of the SQL:2003 mandate this notation? I've had a moderately good poke around my copy of ISO/IEC 9075-2:2003 (SQL/Foundation) and cannot find this. I'd like a few section numbers listed which describe this. The variou

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

Mark Stosberg wrote: If you haven't see AnnoCPAN, it's a new way to share comments on Perl POD: But not with the actual AUTHOR of the module apparently. From what I can tell, this does nothing at all to help the author of the modules. There's no way to get a listing of the annotations for a

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

Michael G Schwern wrote: So where's the RSS push interface so I don't have to go checking 2983 RSS feeds every day to see if there's anything interesting? Call me a snob, but O(1) is still better than O(n). PS Its entirely possible I'm just ignorant. www.bloglines.com for an example of somet

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

Mark Stosberg wrote: If you haven't see AnnoCPAN, it's a new way to share comments on Perl POD: Example: http://www.annocpan.org/dist/Net-ICal-0.15/lib/Net/ICal.pm I have an idea about taking it a step further-- making it easier to close the loop with the author to integrate updates. CPAN d

Re: method calls on $self

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 08:50:35AM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: > On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 08:10:00AM +0200, Robin Redeker wrote: > > And what will be the default syntax to call > > a method on self? If everyone has completly other > > preferences about this, for example this horrible ./method(

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

At 12:35 AM -0700 7/9/05, Jonathan Leffler wrote: I dunno which DBMS support prepare without a database connection, but I would expect all the mainstream databases to require a database connection. IBM DB2 does; IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) does; someone else commented on this and said Or