Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-25 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Monday 23 July 2001 14:05, Dave Storrs wrote: > No, I do not mean something like Devel::DProf; that is a > module. I mean something that is in the core binary, the same way that > the perl debugger is in the core binary. Except that the perl debugger is not in the perl binary. There

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-24 Thread Steve Fink
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:47:43PM -0700, Dave Storrs wrote: > >>I discovered today that I had forgotten to put 'use strict' at the top of >>one of my modules...it was in the script that _used_ the module, but not >>in the module itself. Putting it in instantly caught

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-24 Thread Bart Lateur
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 14:47:43 -0700 (PDT), Dave Storrs wrote: >I discovered today that I had forgotten to put 'use strict' at the top of >one of my modules...it was in the script that _used_ the module, but not >in the module itself. Putting it in instantly caught several annoying >bugs that I'd

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-23 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 02:47 PM 7/21/2001 -0700, Dave Storrs wrote: >Second topic: > >The debugger API PDD that I submitted a couple of days ago suggested that >we incorporate a profiler into the core. What do people think of this >idea? A simple version will probably be included--I expect to hack one together for

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-23 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 10:56:41AM -0700, Dave Storrs wrote: > A good point. There should definitely be a clean API so that > other people can develop their own profilers which could then be plugged > in. This still leaves the question though...should core provide a default > profiler? Wh

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-23 Thread Dave Storrs
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Johan Vromans wrote: > Dave Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I discovered today that I had forgotten to put 'use strict' at the top of > > one of my modules...it was in the script that _used_ the module, but not > > in the module itself. Putting it in instantly ca

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-23 Thread Uri Guttman
> "DS" == Dave Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DS> A good point. There should definitely be a clean API so that DS> other people can develop their own profilers which could then be DS> plugged in. This still leaves the question though...should core DS> provide a default profile

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-23 Thread Dave Storrs
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:47:43PM -0700, Dave Storrs wrote: > > > It would be nice if there was a > > > > use strict 'recursive'; > > > > option that you could set in a script or module (package, whatever) which > > would force all the mod

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-23 Thread Dave Storrs
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Dan Brian wrote: > > The debugger API PDD that I submitted a couple of days ago suggested that > > we incorporate a profiler into the core. What do people think of this > > idea? > > I think that with a clean API, many third-party profilers could and would > be created. I

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-22 Thread Johan Vromans
Dave Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I discovered today that I had forgotten to put 'use strict' at the top of > one of my modules...it was in the script that _used_ the module, but not > in the module itself. Putting it in instantly caught several annoying > bugs that I'd been trying to tr

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-21 Thread Uri Guttman
> "DS" == Dave Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DS> Second topic: DS> The debugger API PDD that I submitted a couple of days ago suggested that DS> we incorporate a profiler into the core. What do people think of this DS> idea? only if it can be shut off with no penalty. that may

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-21 Thread schwern
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:47:43PM -0700, Dave Storrs wrote: > I discovered today that I had forgotten to put 'use strict' at the top of > one of my modules...it was in the script that _used_ the module, but not > in the module itself. Putting it in instantly caught several annoying > bugs that I

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-21 Thread Dan Brian
> The debugger API PDD that I submitted a couple of days ago suggested that > we incorporate a profiler into the core. What do people think of this > idea? I think that with a clean API, many third-party profilers could and would be created. I am skeptical of the value of putting it in the core,