Re: Permanent sublists (was Re: Language WG report, August 16th 2000)

2000-08-22 Thread J. David Blackstone
On Wed., Aug 16, 2000, Nate Wiger wrote: > is good. Right now, people are hopping in 500 emails behind, replying to > something in the middle of the stream, and only later reading the > "please move this to -errors" post. Actually, I'm 1283 emails behind, to be exact. And that's just countin

Re: Permanent sublists (was Re: Language WG report, August 16th 2000)

2000-08-17 Thread skud
>>-io = ALL I/O issues, like open/socket/filehandles >>-subs = ALL sub/method/func issues, like lvalue subs >>-strict = ALL lexical/global variable scoping issues >>-objects = ALL OO and module issues >>-flow = ALL flow/threading issues >>-errors = ALL er

Re: Permanent sublists (was Re: Language WG report, August 16th 2000)

2000-08-16 Thread skud
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 11:15:40PM -0700, Peter Scott wrote: > >Sorry I didn't chime in earlier, but I would like to say that I prefer >published deadlines. Reason: people will talk for as long as you give >'em. However long a meeting is scheduled for, that's how long it will >take. We're al

Re: Permanent sublists (was Re: Language WG report, August 16th 2000)

2000-08-16 Thread Peter Scott
At 04:12 PM 8/17/00 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 10:35:09AM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote: > >I agree. I think the trend should be to establish some permanent > >sublists, which we're informally leaning towards already. Something > >like: > > > > -io = ALL I/O issue

Re: Permanent sublists (was Re: Language WG report, August 16th 2000)

2000-08-16 Thread skud
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 10:35:09AM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote: >I agree. I think the trend should be to establish some permanent >sublists, which we're informally leaning towards already. Something >like: > > -io = ALL I/O issues, like open/socket/filehandles > -subs = ALL sub/method/

Re: Language WG report, August 16th 2000

2000-08-16 Thread Chaim Frenkel
> "TB" == Tim Bunce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TB> On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:23:04PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> OK, weekly report. Ugh. TB> Shouldn't these to go -announce as well? I thought we agreed that they percolate upward. The containing WG would report the results upward

Re: Permanent sublists (was Re: Language WG report, August 16th 2000)

2000-08-16 Thread Steve Simmons
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 02:38:33PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: > i see problems with overlapping areas. I/O callbacks fall under both io > and flow IMO. some of the error handling like dying deep in eval and > $SIG{DIE} also fall under error and flow. This is true, and inevitable. But IMHO it'd b

Re: Permanent sublists (was Re: Language WG report, August 16th 2000)

2000-08-16 Thread Nathan Wiger
> i see problems with overlapping areas. I/O callbacks fall under both io > and flow IMO. some of the error handling like dying deep in eval and > $SIG{DIE} also fall under error and flow. True. But it should be up to the RFC author to choose the relevant list. I think RFC authors have been prett

Re: Permanent sublists (was Re: Language WG report, August 16th 2000)

2000-08-16 Thread Uri Guttman
> "NW" == Nathan Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: NW> I agree. I think the trend should be to establish some permanent NW> sublists, which we're informally leaning towards already. Something NW> like: NW>-io = ALL I/O issues, like open/socket/filehandles NW>-subs

Permanent sublists (was Re: Language WG report, August 16th 2000)

2000-08-16 Thread Nathan Wiger
"Bryan C. Warnock" wrote: > > ... is the cause for this. All the discussion is taking place in the > master list before the sublists are spawned. You can only express the > opinion that foo is not bar and never should be so many times. I agree. I think the trend should be to establish some perm

Re: Language WG report, August 16th 2000

2000-08-16 Thread Tim Bunce
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:23:04PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, weekly report. Ugh. Shouldn't these to go -announce as well? Tim.

Re: Language WG report, August 16th 2000

2000-08-16 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The language group has generated the vast majority of the 100+ RFCs in > existence, and is suffering under the deluge of 100-200 posts a day. I > would prefer this to be down around 50, but no luck yet :-/ Part of the > problem seems to be timezone

Language WG report, August 16th 2000

2000-08-16 Thread skud
OK, weekly report. Ugh. The language group has generated the vast majority of the 100+ RFCs in existence, and is suffering under the deluge of 100-200 posts a day. I would prefer this to be down around 50, but no luck yet :-/ Part of the problem seems to be timezone related... the lag time bet