Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and "Michael Maraist" whispered:
| >From this, socket, and virtually all IPC methods should go the wayside.
| This includes pipes, shell environment ops ( the get and set functions ),
| and even the file-io (open, close, and possibly even printf, sprintf). At
|
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whispered
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| Is there are a problem with Math::Trig I've not been told about?
| Well, sqrt() is not strictly speaking just for trigonometry.
| But I wonder what log() is doing in the proposed list.
I wanted to write th
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
m> whispered:
| Unless that's done completely transparently, you'll pretty much screw the
| pooch as far as "Perl is the Cliff Notes of Unix" notion. Not to
| mention running a very strong risk of butchering the performan
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wh
ispered:
| However, since those funtions take up about 200 lines in the core, are
| very stable and relatively easy to document, what do we win by
| removing them?
|
| PS The idea of adding acos, asin and tan is good
$!,
| or $?, or anything that might call anything from the C library.
Ok, here's my new RFC. This should handle all of Tom's objections:
=head1 TITLE
Perl is Tom's private domain.
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Stephen P. Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 8/25/2000
Versio
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whispered:
| or we can all darned well fake it at the very least.
Dan, Larry, and the rest of the members of perl6-internals:
I apologize for my behaviour the other evening. It was childish and served
no purpose on this lis
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Steve Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
whispered:
| Depends on your definition of "module". Many people seem to be assuming
| "module" eq "shared library".
Yes, exactly. I use module as a generic term for something other than the
main perl binary itself, a black b
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Nick Ing-Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
whispered:
| I think this is inappropriate for sin/cos/tan et. al. and possibly even
| sockets (although Win32 sockets are weird enough that it would be worthwhile)
|
| But for getpw* or shm/queue/msg or other may-not-b
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
m> whispered:
| Very well, then: I'll save it for an after-the-fact I-TOLD-YOU-SO,
| which, believe it or not, is truly *not* a pleasant thing to be
| able to say.
Tom, we appreciate your constructive comments and your hel
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and "raptor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whispered:
| ok,
|
| "I've done it in one row, why you want it to fit in 80 columns ?!" (or
| something like that can't remember well)
"You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns? :-)"
-lwall
-spp
Is this (these) thread(s) to the point where it is worth spinning off a new
sublist? If a couple of the main contributors (Dan, Simon, Branden, etc)
say yes, can we get perl6-internals-gc created?
-spp
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and "NeonEdge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whisper
ed:
| This is probably way too late, but does this make any sense: could p6 allow
| (for the first few versions anyway) a "require <6;" directive?
Do you understand how the current "require #;" works? It already pretty
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Damien Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whispered
:
| ISO/ANSI C reserves identifiers beginning with a _. I recommend using
| "perl_" and "perl__" if you want to distinguish internal-only functions
| from public ones.
I'd be worried that "_" and "__" are too hard t
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