Tom Christiansen wrote:
Patrick wrote:
: > * Almost. E.g. isL would be nice to have as well.
:
: Those exist also:
:
: $ ./perl6
: > say 'abCD34' ~~ / /
: a
: > say 'abCD34' ~~ / /
: 3
: >
They may exist, but I'm not certain it's a good idea to encourage
the Is_XXX approach on *anything
I would like to know, is perl6 going to have something like select
(with arguments created by fileno/vec), or something like IO::Select
(with which the user doesn't need to know about the implementation,
which happens to be done with fileno/vec/select), or only an event
loop.
I would recommend tha
Hi,
Am 12.11.2010 02:47, schrieb Ben Goldberg:
I would like to know, is perl6 going to have something like select
(with arguments created by fileno/vec), or something like IO::Select
(with which the user doesn't need to know about the implementation,
which happens to be done with fileno/vec/sele
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 05:47:46PM -0800, Ben Goldberg wrote:
> I would like to know, is perl6 going to have something like select
> (with arguments created by fileno/vec), or something like IO::Select
> (with which the user doesn't need to know about the implementation,
> which happens to be done
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:21:10AM -0800, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> TIMTOWDI. Perl without system calls is not Perl.
+1
> This is why S16 is junk - too much blue-sky thinking, not enough
> pragmatism and practical experience.
Agreed.
> Forbidding things out of idealistic concerns like API purity
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> This goes without saying. One caveat - it should be possible to pass
> integer file descriptors.
Integer file descriptions should exist in the POSIX module, just like
Win32 handles should exist in the Win32 module, but they don't have a
pla
