Hi, heros of the makemakaeology,
>>>>> On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 03:14:21 -0500, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> <Schwern> Here's a hint: MM_Unix is SelfLoaded
> <DrMath> Shit, I don't know much about SelfLoading.
> <Schwern> But I'd turned it off because it makes things hard to debug.
> <DrMath> right.
Right. I always turned it off during development and turned it on
again for shipping. My then 166 MHz laptop would have been fast
enough, but the VMS people were suffering from the slow MakeMaker and
enjoyed the quicker Self- or Autoloaded one.
> <Schwern> merlyn spotted it
> <Schwern> $ perl -wle '"MM"->{FOO} = 42; print $MM{FOO}'
> <Schwern> 42
> <DrMath> Jesus. I guess that's why we use strict.
> <Schwern> So now what I really, really, really, really, really, really hope is
that this is a bug and not a feature.
You have my vote for bug.
> <Schwern> And then there's that wacky "running under some shell" exec thing
> <Schwern> Its archeology I tells ya
> <DrMath> I've never understood the "running under some shell" thing. Or rather,
the need for it.
> <DrMath> Or both.
> <Schwern> I think its for weird, crippled shells
It's for systems that have no shebang support at all. I don't know how
many of these are still around, but 10 years ago there were many.
> <Schwern> Say hi to Andreas
> * Schwern waves to Andreas
> <Schwern> I'm going to send him a log of this to see if he can figure out what's
up with %MY. Wave
> * DrMath waves to Andreas
(Waving, Waving)
> So is the %MY thing a bug or feature? Please, please, please tell me
> its a bug.
It's really, really horrible.
--
andreas
