Mark Fowler sent the following bits through the ether:
> P.S. 5.6.0? Shall I get you some rocks to bash together too?
That was an interesting thread. Now, it's really easy to have multiple
version of Perl running on the same box (let's ignore mod_perl for now
;-) so why hasn't everyone done so?
On Wednesday, November 27, 2002 6:50 PM, Mark [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> I checked if similar would happen with Data::Dumper. From a quick test,
> looks like this may allow you to do what you want, if appropriate bits
> added to the freeze/thaw subs.
>
> [mmorgan]$ perl -MData::Dumper -le
That was an interesting thread. Now, it's really easy to have multiple
version of Perl running on the same box (let's ignore mod_perl for now
;-) so why hasn't everyone done so? I know I'm very lazy, but what's
your excuse?
You make that sound like a good thing... It's easy to have multiple
ve
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Leon Brocard wrote:
> Now, it's really easy to have multiple version of Perl running on the
> same box (let's ignore mod_perl for now ;-) so why hasn't everyone done
> so?
What do you mean, it's really easy to have multiple versions of perl?
Sure I can install as many copies
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:16:06AM +, Mark Fowler wrote:
> Richard has 'mirth' plugged into our house network that has pretty much
> every version of perl installed on it (actually, it doesn't have any
> version of 2, 3 or 4...but there you go.) This is useful for regression
> testing, but *b
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 08:19:12 +, Leon Brocard wrote:
> Now, it's really easy to have multiple version of Perl running on the same
> box (let's ignore mod_perl for now ;-) so why hasn't everyone done so? I
> know I'm very lazy, but what's your excuse?
Laziness and forgetfulness. And being unable
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:36:04PM +, Mark Fowler wrote:
[reference counting]
> Could you, or anyone else, give me a pointer to where this kind of thing
> is documented?
L, plus, if you're writing
some XS and think that you're leaking something, you can always try
Devel::LeakTrace (if the som
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 08:19:12AM +, Leon Brocard wrote:
> Mark Fowler sent the following bits through the ether:
> > P.S. 5.6.0? Shall I get you some rocks to bash together too?
> That was an interesting thread. Now, it's really easy to have multiple
> version of Perl running on the same box
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 02:35:20PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> Review of "Extending and Embedding Perl"
>
> Author: Tim Jenness and Simon Cozens
> ISBN: 1-930110-82-0
> Publisher: Manning
> Reviewed by: Nicholas Clark
>
>
> This is a long review. I could have said "the book is mis
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Graham Barr wrote:
> Heck I even gave a quote for the cover as I thought it was a very
> promising book. Having read this please tell me its not there as I have
> never received my free copy.
"Perl's internals and XS can be like black magic. [This] is the 'spell
book' you nee
I'm playing with vim. Either it's standard perl syntax file doesn't
support folding, or I can't get folding to work for some reason (setting
fold method to syntax..).
Vague comments about remedying either situation appreciated.
J
--
Jonathan Peterson
Technical Manager, Unified Ltd, +44 (0)20
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 02:35:20PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> Review of "Extending and Embedding Perl"
>
> [snippety-snip]
I have posted this on the web site, at:
http://london.pm.org/reviews/extending-and-embedding-perl.html
--
David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | http://www.cantrell.o
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:45:13AM +, Richard Clamp wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:36:04PM +, Mark Fowler wrote:
> [reference counting]
> > Could you, or anyone else, give me a pointer to where this kind of thing
> > is documented?
>
> L, plus, if you're writing
> some XS and think t
At 28/11/2002 15:15 [], Mark Fowler wrote:
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Graham Barr wrote:
> Heck I even gave a quote for the cover as I thought it was a very
> promising book. Having read this please tell me its not there as I have
> never received my free copy.
"Perl's internals and XS can be like bla
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:45:13AM +, Richard Clamp wrote:
>
> [someone check this, please:]
> 3: so this means if you're returning a reference to an array or hash from
>your XS code, you only need to mark the top level reference as mortal; whe
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 04:30:41PM +, Shevek wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:45:13AM +, Richard Clamp wrote:
> >
> > [someone check this, please:]
> > 3: so this means if you're returning a reference to an array or hash from
> >your
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 03:56:50PM +, S. Joel Bernstein wrote:
> At 28/11/2002 15:15 [], Mark Fowler wrote:
> >Back of book. Also quotes from "Charles Bailey, Alasdair Allan, Abhijit
> ^^^
> >Menon-Sen and Norman Gray.
> ^^
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 03:27:21PM +, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> I'm playing with vim. Either it's standard perl syntax file doesn't
> support folding, or I can't get folding to work for some reason (setting
> fold method to syntax..).
>
> Vague comments about remedying either situation appr
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 05:36:19PM +0100, Michael Lamertz wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 03:27:21PM +, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> > I'm playing with vim. Either it's standard perl syntax file doesn't
> > support folding, or I can't get folding to work for some reason (setting
> > fold metho
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 17:26, Paul Johnson wrote:
> It's funny (or maybe it's not) but I thought I would make a lot of use
> of folding, and was really looking forward to it. Now it's there, the
> only time I use it is in vimdiff, which has removed the only reason I
> ever looked longingly at emacs
Dear all,
Just wanted to say an offical "Hello" to
everyone.
I'm trying to teach myself Perl - and think it's
great! I've only been doing it for about 3 months, but it's already proving VERY
useful at work - where I've volunteered to convert data from our Back Offfice
Systems into Excel
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 06:48:01PM +, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> Which brings to something that I have always been curious about, why
> isn't there an editor written in perl?
I seem to recall someone starting a vi clone in Perl. Was it part of
ppt?
I don't know about emacs though.
Aren't there
>> On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 00:51:18, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I don't know about emacs though.
There was a comp.emacs.xemacs thread about embedding Perl in XEmacs.
It's the one during which Jamie Zawinski famously said:
"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ``I kn
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