Re: Macro arguments themselves

2003-09-13 Thread Alex Burr
--- Austin Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then again, there are some very talented people with a lot of free time in the Perl community; I wouldn't count it out. That looked to me like a Damian troll, hoping that DC would pop up and

Constant array or array of constant?

2003-09-13 Thread Luke Palmer
I was reading through E6 again, and noticed something a little troubling: sub part ([EMAIL PROTECTED] is rw) {...} Well, Iof course @_ Cis rw! Otherwise we wouldn't be able to Cshift things off of it. What was actually meant, I presume, is: sub part ([EMAIL PROTECTED] of (Object is

Re: [RFT] File Spec

2003-09-13 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 10:29:04AM +0300, Vladimir Lipskiy wrote: People make mistakes. Perhaps you should produce some errors if a user strays outside these rules. Garbage in, garbage out: Bad. Garbage in, error out: Good. It really does that. I mean that it returns a when it

Re: Event handling (was Re: [CVS ci] exceptions-6: signals, catch a SIGFPE (generic platform)

2003-09-13 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 08:40:44PM -0400, Benjamin Goldberg wrote: When there are no events queued, for any thread, then we change branch e_handler_foo back into branch label_foo, for speed. Do we need to do this last bit explicitly? Or can we do it

Re: [RFT] File Spec

2003-09-13 Thread Vladimir Lipskiy
Are you saying: concat_dirnames(C:\foo, bar) == error? Yes. Even if the file spec tool was smart enough just like you and me it would never be able to unriddle what output it would have to produce as a result of the following call on Mac: concat_dirnames(disk:dir_a, dir_b); if disk was a

Re: passing arguments to tests

2003-09-13 Thread Adrian Howard
On Thursday, Sep 11, 2003, at 16:38 Europe/London, Ovid wrote: --- Andrew Savige [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, that 'grind' looks like a very handy command but I'm a bit confused about how you use it. Is it just a handy general-purpose command or do you use it specifically as part of make test

Re: passing arguments to tests

2003-09-13 Thread Jim Cromie
5.8.1 recently started failing 2 tests in op/cproto.t, on pop(), shift(); this only happens on one box, ie RH-7.2, not RH-9, and I havent tried a make distclean, so I havent reported it to p5p. Instead I decided that some false laziness was in order, and I should go digging. But, I thought it

Re: Next Apocalypse

2003-09-13 Thread Jonadab the Unsightly One
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Next Apocalypse is objects, and that'll take time. Objects are *worth* more time than a lot of the other topics. Arguably, they're just as important as subroutines, in a modern language. Speaking of objects... are we going to have a built-in object

Re: Next Apocalypse

2003-09-13 Thread Luke Palmer
Jonadab the Unsightly One writes: Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Next Apocalypse is objects, and that'll take time. Objects are *worth* more time than a lot of the other topics. Arguably, they're just as important as subroutines, in a modern language. Speaking of objects...

Re: Next Apocalypse

2003-09-13 Thread martin
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Luke Palmer wrote: Also, the standard library, however large or small that will be, will definitely be mutable at runtime. There'll be none of that Java you can't subclass String, because we think you shouldn't crap. Java's standard class library is a mishmash of things

Re: passing arguments to tests

2003-09-13 Thread Andrew Savige
Ovid wrote: I've just made it available at http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/downloads/grind.gz It needs more work, including allowing descending into directories (via File::Find or a similar mechanism) and having pre and post actions. I haven't figured out the best way to do the