I can't resist putting on my surly curmudgeon hat to disagree
about the value of "const".
In my experience, the hypothetical errors the compiler will
catch for you are almost totally nonexistant, yet the work
of complying with the A-R compilers nit-picking is a constant
(heh!) drain or resources t
Andy Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> const int days_per_month[] =
> { 31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31 };
>
> You don't want to be able to do C, right?
No, but C
In my experience, the hypothetical errors the compiler will
catch for you are almost totally nonexistant,
In my experience, it's the not catching existing errors, but
preventing you from doing stupid stuff going forward.
Possibly relevant questions: How many man hours have just
been spent
On Aug 13, 2006, at 7:05 AM, Paul Johnson wrote:
Very much so. s/constants/contents/ I suspect? Or maybe s/its
constants/what
it points to/ ?
Ooops, thanks.
I also added a few sentences and an example on cdecl.
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On Aug 13, 2006, at 5:57 AM, Johan Vromans wrote:
You don't want to be able to do C, right?
No, but C
yeah yeah, I knew when I wrote that that SOME smart aleck would point
that out. :-)
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On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 08:16:10PM -0500, Andy Lester wrote:
> I've written up some stuff about why consting is good. It's in the
> Parrot repository as cage/consting.pod.
>
> To my old p5p homies: I send this to you so you don't forget about
> consting
At 8:16 PM -0500 8/12/06, Andy Lester wrote:
I've written up some stuff about why consting is good. It's in the
Parrot repository as cage/consting.pod.
Inspired by Andy's consting work, and xmath's Data::Alias, I've
created Data::Reuse, which allows you to easily co
I've written up some stuff about why consting is good. It's in the
Parrot repository as cage/consting.pod.
To my old p5p homies: I send this to you so you don't forget about
consting while I'm working over here in Parrotland!
xoxo,
Andy
=head1 Why consting is good
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