Uri Guttman wrote:
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> here's an interesting request. i want perl code to have decent access to
> some or all of the pod associated with that code.
>
> so, why do we need a way to get at pod (or other doc strings) in the
> code? one reason to have it comes from my work on stem. i want a remote
>
Tom Christiansen wrote:
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[snip]
> It's certainly a myth than "big projects" *can't* be developed
> without OO. Well, unless you consider an operating system, a
> programming language, or an editor to be small projects--and I for
> one do not. OO can help, sure, but not a trifle as much as can
Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
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> Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >I haven't looked at the internals for local, but isn't:
> >
> >{
> > local $foo;
> >
> > ...
> >}
> >
> >effectively syntactic sugar for:
> >
> >{
> > my $unnamed_foo = $foo; # $unnamed_foo not accessible
> >
> > .
Johan Vromans wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 09:50:11PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> > So Larry is doing most of the evaluation for us. He's the one who
> > gave us the good things in the Perl language we have now. He'll be
> > the one vetoing the ridiculous ideas.
>
> Larry said: "Pe
Damian Conway wrote:
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>> Of all the items up for change in Perl6, these two bother me the most.
>> Format less so than localtime, but I still worry about breakage.
>>
>> The original format stuff HAS to be kept. Don't document it so as not to
>> encourage its use. Play up Tex
Simon Cozens wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:14:34PM -0400, Matthew Persico wrote:
> > The original format stuff HAS to be kept. Don't document it so as not to
> > encourage its use.
>
> Deliberately leaving things undocumented? I'm sorry, you must have u
"Bryan C. Warnock" wrote:
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> On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > How about a Format module that works pretty much exactly the same way
> > but isn't actually in the Perl core?
> >
>
> One of the original suggestions, I believe. In this case, because
> other stuff *does* exist,
