[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Siracusa) writes:
> there's an official way, you'll certainly see less wheel reinvention than in
> Perl 5. This is a good thing.
That is only true if you accept the fundamentalist principle that one should
never reinvent wheels. If that were true, then we wouldn't be worki
John Siracusa writes:
> To bring it home, I think packaging and distribution is important
> enough to warrant a standard, core-supported implementation. Yes,
> it's great to be able to roll your own solution, but forcing the issue
> by providing nothing but the most basic features required to boo
John Williams writes:
> BTW, there should be no ambiguity between C and C<''>,
> because one occurs where an operator is expected, and one occurs where
> a term is expected.
There may be no ambiguity for the Perl engine, but any use of C<'> for
anything other than quoting makes life hard for synt
On Sun 05 Sep, David Green wrote:
> On 2004/9/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Lang) wrote:
> (Nice Subject change, I almost missed it!)
>
> >Larry Wall wrote:
> > > Yow. Presumably "nth" without an argument would mean the last.
> >
> >If it means the last, why not just use C?
>
> Conflict with
On 9/4/04 11:42 PM, chromatic wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 18:44, John Siracusa wrote:
>> To bring it home, I think packaging and distribution is important enough to
>> warrant a standard, core-supported implementation.
>
>> I think the "specially structured dir of files" and its single-file pac
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 19:47, Larry Wall wrote:
> This synopsis summarizes the non-existent Apocalypse 9, which
> discussed in detail the design of Perl 6 data structures. It was
> primarily a discussion of how the existing features of Perl 6 combine
> to make it easier for the PDL folks to write
Alberto Manuel Brandao Simoes wrote:
> I know head can not compile at all, but maybe this can help to know that
> the following tests fail on my Slackware Linux:
> t/pmc/signalNOK 2# Failed test (t/pmc/signal.t at line 44)
> t/pmc/signalNOK 4# Failed test (t/pmc/s
Attached is a patch that should fix the solaris link issues without
breaking every other platform, hopefully. ;)
This adds support for setting triggers on specific config variables.
The basic idea is that you can register a named callback for any
specific config variable. When that variable is s
hi all :)
Michael G Schwern wrote:
> http://mungus.schwern.org/~schwern/src/Test-Simple-0.48_02.tar.gz
>
> A new alpha release of Test::Simple/More/Builder. You can consider this
> the 0.49 release candidate. Please let me know how it goes.
just out of curiosity, what's the word on 0.49?
--Ge
John Siracusa writes:
> I think the most important question was at the end of my last message:
> is something even *possible* without core support? Taking a set of
> scripts and libs and making single-file, compiled (or "precompiled"
> bytecode or whatever) executable that will run on all platform
On 9/5/04 8:31 PM, Luke Palmer wrote:
> John Siracusa writes:
>> I think the most important question was at the end of my last message:
>> is something even *possible* without core support? Taking a set of
>> scripts and libs and making single-file, compiled (or "precompiled"
>> bytecode or whatev
On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 22:17:22 -0700 (PDT), Jonathan Lang
> Agreed; that's why I'd include "last" for newbies to use. "0th" as "last"
> works only as an extension of "-1st" as "first from last", "-2nd" as
> "second from last", and so on; you have positive numbers counting from the
> first, and negat
I may be completely off base here, but I think this whole discussion
would be better suited for perl6-internals. A packaging system would
not be a feature of the language itself, but of its implementation.
Don't confuse Perl and perl.
--
matt
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