affect/effect (was perlfunc.pod grammar fixes)

2005-07-28 Thread Joe McMahon
On Jul 28, 2005, at 12:49 AM, Piotr Fusik wrote: Note that a block by itself is semantically identical to a loop -that executes once. Thus C can be used to effect an early +that executes once. Thus C can be used to affect an early exit out of such a block. effect is a noun. affect is a v

Re: [perl #17765] UTF-8 in the debugger

2005-07-12 Thread Joe McMahon
On Jul 12, 2005, at 4:13 PM, Michael G Schwern via RT wrote: [joemcmahon - Fri Jun 03 15:00:45 2005]: Same program in the debugger: % perl -de ' $_ = "\x{100}"; s/[\x{100}]/o/; print "$_\n"; ' Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.19 Editor support available. Enter h or `h h' for he

[perl #17765] UTF-8 in the debugger

2005-06-03 Thread Joe McMahon via RT
> Same program in the debugger: > % perl -de ' > $_ = "\x{100}"; > s/[\x{100}]/o/; > print "$_\n"; > ' > > Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.19 > Editor support available. > > Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help. > > main::(-e:2): $_ = "\x{100}"; > DB<1> c

Re: [perl #33598] sniff, well meaning documentation enhancements never up to snuff

2004-12-30 Thread Joe McMahon
On Dec 29, 2004, at 2:15 PM, Dan Jacobson (via RT) wrote: # New Ticket Created by Dan Jacobson # Please include the string: [perl #33598] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=33598 > Sniff, my well meaning document

Re: [perl #32465] RE on long strings causes Segmentation fault

2004-11-16 Thread Joe McMahon
On Nov 16, 2004, at 2:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (via RT) wrote: #!/usr/local/bin/perl my $TEXT = ""; for (my $i=0;$i<11500;$i++) { $TEXT .= "x"; } $TEXT =~ s/(x?)+//g; Confirmed segfault on OS X with 5.8.5. --- Joe M.

Re: Runaway process problems for hosting companies

2004-11-14 Thread Joe McMahon
On Nov 13, 2004, at 3:28 PM, Ben Morrow wrote: This is *not* a p5p problem. These are *not* things that should be in core perl. If you want to talk to ActiveState and see if you can persuade them to produce a 'perl for incompetent IIS users' distribution, which includes things useful to people like

Re: Runaway process problems for hosting companies

2004-11-10 Thread Joe McMahon
On Nov 10, 2004, at 9:27 PM, Lyle Hopkins wrote: When the script is called from either IIS or Apache, if the user clicks STOP in their browser the standard CGI Timeout is missed and the process will keep running until you kill it manually. If no CPU throttling has been setup, Perl will quickly co

Re: [perl #31973] perl CPAN problem on my board ...

2004-10-18 Thread Joe McMahon
On Oct 18, 2004, at 11:44 AM, Povolotsky, Alexander wrote: Hi Nicholas, let the CPAN shell do the hard work I am having perl CPAN problem on my board ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/rpm-ppc# su - root -bash: mesg: command not found 192:~# perl -MCPAN -eshell Terminal does not support AddHistory. cpan shell