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
Has anyone actually used a language which has run-time warnings on by
default? Or even know of one?
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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
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 [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
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 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
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 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
