Re: how to include a file

On the subject of Embperl, I have been trying to install HTML-Embperl-1.3.4, however the tests fail Any help would be greatly appreciated? (perl 5.6.0) [mrc1-003:local/install/HTML-Embperl-1.3.4] adam% make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=0 /usr/local/bin/perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib

Re: how to include a file

At 6:35 PM -0600 3/17/02, Puneet Kishor wrote: I guess it is a matter of getting used to one way of doing things versus another. I actually find it very easy if everything goes through the one bottleneck of index.???. Esp. useful if I am building in extensive error-trapping on an application

Re: use Strict causing brain damage

Puneet, You should be typing 'use strict;', not 'use Strict;'. Perhaps the filesystem is returning the contents of Strict.pm and perl is losing track of it in %INC. On Sunday, March 17, 2002, at 10:54 PM, Puneet Kishor wrote: can anyone tell me what on earth these messages in my

Perl as alternative to MySQL

Please let me know if this is crazy! I am continually developing a site in Lasso and on their mailing list someone talked about how they had dispensed with the database backend altogether by using Lasso to read text files. This idea intrigues me. The reason I was thinking about dispensing

Re: Perl as alternative to MySQL

On 3/18/02 1:07 PM, Danny Arsenault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please let me know if this is crazy! It's not totally crazy. :) Now, the folks on the Lasso list claim that this kind of file-based DB thing is done all the time in Perl, and now that we have Perl on OS X, I wonder if I

Re: Perl as alternative to MySQL

I do a lot of work with Filemaker Pro, MySQL, HTML Perl. My best advice is to simply create a batch output process for your static or semi-static datum. Provided that you have the storage space on your server, the file system will ALWAYS be faster than ANY database to retrieve data from.

Re: how to include a file

At 6:35 PM -0600 3/17/02, Puneet Kishor wrote: I am glad I asked, because I just spent a good part of last night setting up Mason. I can't get it to work correctly because my mod_perl is buggered up (my previous emails ask for help on that issue), but I have got it working as a That

Re: use Strict causing brain damage

thanks Ken, for saving me from perlobotomy. use strict works. phew! wonder what the heck use Strict was... case gremlins. pk/ On Monday, March 18, 2002, at 08:12 AM, Ken Williams wrote: Puneet, You should be typing 'use strict;', not 'use Strict;'. Perhaps the filesystem is returning

Re: removing all traces of Perl (is it necessary to do a clean install)

Thanks Gero, it worked! For the next several days I will continue to think what a nice person you are. Thanks very much for pointing me in the right direction. pk/ On Monday, March 18, 2002, at 06:12 AM, Gero Herrmann wrote: Puneet Kishor wrote: I am having a lot of difficulty with

Re: Perl as alternative to MySQL

pk has hit the nail on the head i think! The reason I was thinking about dispensing with the DB backend is because I have a very cranky database which is holding information that does not need to be dynamic. I have a couple thousand product thumbnails (and this number increases by about