I just want to say it seems appropriate that this discussion of how
Perl can look like Morse Code is happening in the thread I first started,
since I was active in ham radio from 1970-95 (mostly CW, or "Morse Code"
to you non-hams).
And consider it a blessing that Perl can look like Morse Code, n
Bart Lateur wrote:
> Yeah. But no cheers then. The problem still remains: you can access a
> hash in the normal way in plain code, but inside a sub, you can mainly
> only access a passed hash through a reference.
>
> ...
>
> Are you going to provide a simpler aliasing mechanism to turn a hash
>
> If I work at OReilly, I don't need a Local:: in front of my
> OReilly to tell me that it's a local namespace.
but you need "OReilly" in front? do you label your clothes "Shirt" and
"Pants" as well? might be orthagonal but the top level should serve
a useful purpose instead of something along th
Damian Conway wrote:
> If it's a policy, it should go under Policy::
If it's an OReilly site module, it should go under OReilly, eh?
What's general and what's specific is entirely a matter of
perspective, since "OReilly" and "Policy" are entirely
orthogonal concepts.
> Surely you wouldn't condo
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 05:06:03PM -0400, John Porter wrote:
> OReilly::Policy is (or might be) still general before
> specific. OReilly::* might be a whole family of site-
> specific modules.
Policy::* is *guaranteed* to be a large family of site-specific modules,
hopefully even larger than th
> > You Americans and your non-ISO penchant for putting the specific before
> > the general. Surely that should be:
> >
> > use Policy::O::Reilly;
>
> I knew someone would argue that, but I didn't think it would
> be someone as illustrious as Damian.
Illustrious???
Larry Wall wrote:
> Now we just need to make "... ___ ..." mean something exceptional.
Ref: http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg02873.html )
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John Porter
Damian Conway wrote:
> You Americans and your non-ISO penchant for putting the specific before
> the general. Surely that should be:
>
> use Policy::O::Reilly;
I knew someone would argue that, but I didn't think it would
be someone as illustrious as Damian.
Do you think Larry doesn't kn
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Unfortunately, the perl6-language archive doesn't seem to go back far
> enough to cover the .perlrc discussion. Is the old archive still
> around?
don't know which archive you are talking about, but
http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-language%40p
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 12:20:42PM -0700, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:
> don't know which archive you are talking about, but
> http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-language%40perl.org/ should have
> all mails sent to perl6-language from it's start to a few days ago
> when I moved stuff around.
I think
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 12:49:28PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 05:37 PM 4/29/2001 +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> >By "optional" I take it you mean an admin can choose to define their
> >own site policy or not?
>
> No. Optional in that you have to do a "use SomePolicyThingWeHaventDecided;"
At 05:37 PM 4/29/2001 +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 11:44:24AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > At 04:30 PM 4/29/2001 +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> > >To use a Perl 5 example, consider the simple setting of "use strict"
> > >as a general site policy. Basicaly, most of
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 11:44:24AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 04:30 PM 4/29/2001 +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> >To use a Perl 5 example, consider the simple setting of "use strict"
> >as a general site policy. Basicaly, most of the Perl code in your
> >/usr/bin will explode when you try
At 04:30 PM 4/29/2001 +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 02:44:17PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > Well, I was thinking that generally the site policy would be expressed
> in a
> > single file
>
>This smells strangely familiar. Alot like the .perlrc discussion that
>was had
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 10:39:01AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> Now we just need to make "... ___ ..." mean something exceptional.
___ ... ___ is valid. :)
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On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 02:44:17PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Well, I was thinking that generally the site policy would be expressed in a
> single file
This smells strangely familiar. Alot like the .perlrc discussion that
was had back many moons ago. The havoc a general syntax-altering
polic
At 03:44 PM 4/28/2001 -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
>Dan Sugalski writes:
>: I hadn't really considered having a separate module for each type of site
>: policy decision.
>
>Er, neither had I. Each site only has one policy file. I just want it
>named after the actual site, not some generic name like
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