Re: [perl #133057] Odd interaction of HTTP::UserAgent and Promises

2018-04-03 Thread brian d foy via RT
The error message isn't useful because you get that no matter what happens. It's really the IO::Socket::SSL is not thread safe. But, I'd not expect a segfault.

Re: [perl #133057] AutoReply: Odd interaction of HTTP::UserAgent and Promises

2018-04-03 Thread brian d foy via RT
Ah, there's even an HTTP::UserAgent issue for this I think: https://github.com/sergot/http-useragent/issues/191

Re: [perl #132885] AutoReply: .next-handle seems to change handles but doesn't

2018-02-19 Thread brian d foy via RT
I can fix this by closing the old file handle and checking the new one, but that seems like way to much work at the user level. quietly { my $limit = 5; for lines() { state $lines = 1; FIRST { $*ARGFILES.on-switch = { put "NEW FILE"; $lines = 1 } }

Re: [perl #131922] [LTA] "Variadic" or "slurpy"?

2017-08-18 Thread brian d foy via RT
Several areas of the docs then need to correct that. No matter what you decide, a user should be able to take the tricky words in an error message and usefully find them in the docs. -- brian d foy http://www.pair.com/~comdog/

Re: [perl #131695] Confusion in precedence with <<$foo>>[0]

2017-07-03 Thread brian d foy via RT
On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 11:09 AM, jn...@jnthn.net via RT wrote: > I can see the potential for a human reader to be confused, I think there are two improvements here: * a better explanation of interpolation and what's allowed there (such as "only postfix...") with plenty of examples. * a better

Re: [perl #131392] %() creates a Map

2017-05-29 Thread brian d foy via RT
I did pull my first example out of a slightly larger program I was playing with, but I thought that a match would surely have no effect. Stupid me, because I've been around long enough to know that assumption is almost always false. That "harmless" thing you leave out is the actual problem. Here's