On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 05:32:50PM -0500, Sam Tregar wrote:
> Examples? I know you're not talking about C or C++. I'm pretty sure
> you're not talking about Java - exception-handling renders the term "fatal
> error" almost meaningless.
Well, an unhandled exception in Java is death for the progr
Its true alot languages would consider many of Perl's warnings to be
errors, that's not really analgous to what we're talking about here.
Run-time errors aren't quite in the same spirit as run-time warnings.
A run-time error is something the language defines as being explicitly
bad or a mistake (
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 12:10:53PM -0600, Garrett Goebel wrote:
> This is perhaps the 3rd recent "waiting for Larry" comment posted in the
> last week. I don't mind waiting... good things take time.
We'll hang ourselves tommorrow... unless Larry comes. And if he
comes, we'll be saved.
--
Mich
Are we still having this discussion? :-)
At 07:23 PM 2/21/01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Its true alot languages would consider many of Perl's warnings to be
>errors, that's not really analgous to what we're talking about here.
>
>Run-time errors aren't quite in the same spirit as run-time w
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 05:32:50PM -0500, Sam Tregar wrote:
> > Examples? I know you're not talking about C or C++. I'm pretty sure
> > you're not talking about Java - exception-handling renders the term "fatal
> > error" almost meaningless.
>
> We
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 02:19:18PM +, Simon Cozens wrote:
> Sort of. What I really wanted to do was to be able to say
>
> sub foo { ... }
> builtinify(foo);
>
> package bar;
> foo(); # Refers to main::foo
> package baz;
> foo(); # Refers to main::foo
>
> (this is so that the forthcoming Saf
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Bart Lateur wrote:
> Actually, it's pretty common. Only, most languages are not as forgiving
> as perl, and what is merely a warning in Perl, is a fatal error in those
> languages. Trying to read the value of an uninitialized variable, for
> example, that's commonly a fatal e
Has anyone actually used a language which has run-time warnings on by
default? Or even know of one?
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Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
Perl6 Quality Assurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kwalitee Is Job One
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:
> I have created perl6-announce-pdd. Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> for clues.
by the way, Adam Turoff was kind and volunteered to take the PDD
archive pumpkin like he was handling the bazillion RFC's.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] will thus go to him now. Be sure to
