Re: Macro arguments themselves

2003-09-13 Thread Alex Burr
--- Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Then again, there are some very talented people > with a lot of free > > time in the Perl community; I wouldn't count it > out. > > That looked to me like a "Damian troll", hoping that > DC wou

Constant array or array of constant?

2003-09-13 Thread Luke Palmer
I was reading through E6 again, and noticed something a little troubling: sub part ([EMAIL PROTECTED] is rw) {...} Well, I @_ C! Otherwise we wouldn't be able to C things off of it. What was actually meant, I presume, is: sub part ([EMAIL PROTECTED] of (Object is rw)) {...} #[1] Or s

Re: [RFT] File Spec

2003-09-13 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 10:29:04AM +0300, Vladimir Lipskiy wrote: > > People make mistakes. Perhaps you should produce some errors if a user > > strays outside these rules. Garbage in, garbage out: Bad. Garbage in, > > error out: Good. > > It really does that. I mean that it returns a "" when i

Re: Event handling (was Re: [CVS ci] exceptions-6: signals, catch a SIGFPE (generic platform)

2003-09-13 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 08:40:44PM -0400, Benjamin Goldberg wrote: >> When there are no events queued, for any thread, then we change "branch >> e_handler_foo" back into "branch label_foo", for speed. > Do we need to do this last bit explicitly? Or can

Re: [RFT] File Spec

2003-09-13 Thread Vladimir Lipskiy
> Are you saying: > > concat_dirnames("C:\foo", "bar") == error? Yes. Even if the file spec tool was smart enough just like you and me it would never be able to unriddle what output it would have to produce as a result of the following call on Mac: concat_dirnames("disk:dir_a", "dir_b"); if "dis

Re: passing arguments to tests

2003-09-13 Thread Adrian Howard
On Thursday, Sep 11, 2003, at 16:38 Europe/London, Ovid wrote: --- Andrew Savige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oh, that 'grind' looks like a very handy command but I'm a bit confused about how you use it. Is it just a handy general-purpose command or do you use it specifically as part of "make te

Re: passing arguments to tests

2003-09-13 Thread Jim Cromie
5.8.1 recently started failing 2 tests in op/cproto.t, on pop(), shift(); this only happens on one box, ie RH-7.2, not RH-9, and I havent tried a make distclean, so I havent reported it to p5p. Instead I decided that some false laziness was in order, and I should go digging. But, I thought it wo

Re: Next Apocalypse

2003-09-13 Thread Jonadab the Unsightly One
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Next Apocalypse is objects, and that'll take time. Objects are *worth* more time than a lot of the other topics. Arguably, they're just as important as subroutines, in a modern language. Speaking of objects... are we going to have a built-in object fo

Re: Next Apocalypse

2003-09-13 Thread Luke Palmer
Jonadab the Unsightly One writes: > Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Next Apocalypse is objects, and that'll take time. > > Objects are *worth* more time than a lot of the other topics. > Arguably, they're just as important as subroutines, in a modern > language. > > Speaking of o

Re: Next Apocalypse

2003-09-13 Thread martin
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Luke Palmer wrote: > Also, the "standard library", however large or small that will be, will > definitely be mutable at runtime. There'll be none of that Java "you > can't subclass String, because we think you shouldn't" crap. Java's standard class library is a mishmash of th

Re: passing arguments to tests

2003-09-13 Thread Andrew Savige
Ovid wrote: > I've just made it available at > http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/downloads/grind.gz > > It needs more work, including allowing descending into directories (via > File::Find or a similar mechanism) and having pre and post actions. > I haven't figured out the best way to do