* Ricardo Signes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[...]
> Yup. I can also log into books.perl.org -- I don't use any
> other PAUSE-authing sites.
books.perl.org does not auth using PAUSE. We use the
auth.perl.org thing which isn't pause based.
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* Potozniak, Andrew ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [19 Aug 2003 00:28]:
[...]
> I guess mostly the syntax highlighting is the biggest concern. I
> use emacs and that does syntax highlighting for perl files.
Surely it highlights pod distinctively?
> Is there any IDE out there that highlights POD differentl
* Michael G Schwern ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [19 Aug 2003 00:15]:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:11:23PM +1000, Iain Truskett wrote:
> > Strictly speaking, the F is a log of changes,
> > usually extracted straight from version control software
> > (e.g. C<< svn log > ChangeL
* Andrew Savige ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [18 Aug 2003 23:24]:
[...]
> > > 7) Version checker.
> >
> > What would you check, exactly?
> That multiple versions in multiple files match.
That's never been necessary, or even necessarily welcomed.
Just look at libnet or LWP.
I'll admit some of my distrib
* Andrew Savige ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [18 Aug 2003 19:29]:
> Anything else? Does such a module/script already exist?
(8) META.ya?ml file is valid YAML and conforms to the spec.
http://module-build.sf.net/META-spec.html
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* Leon Brocard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [18 Aug 2003 20:43]:
[...]
> I'm not sure about how you mean a "good" Changes. For a start, people
> call them different things (Changes, CHANGES, ChangeLog etc.), and
> format them differently.
Strictly speaking, the F is a log of changes,
usually extracted str
* Jonathan Scott Duff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [15 Aug 2003 00:16]:
[...]
> Besides you could always provide online updates to your book as the
> language changes. The first (dead tree) edition would be the rough
> cut, and later editions would be closer to reality as the language
> stablizes.
Much li
* Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões [15 Aug 2003 00:36]:
> On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 15:19, Iain Truskett wrote:
[...]
> > Much like "Perl 6 Essentials" then?
> >
> > I must say that its chapter 4 is the clearest look at
> > the perl 6 syntax (as it was at the ti
* Tels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [05 Aug 2003 02:21]:
[...]
> > http://testers.astray.com/
[...]
> Hm, it generates fast, but wrong results :-)
> Math::BigInt:
> 1.63 (4 FAILs, 16 PASSes)
Those figures appear to be cumulative. I have no
idea if that is intentional or not.
Otherwise, all looks much
* Nick Pinckernell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [24 Jul 2003 14:50]:
[...]
> The idea is: a structured Javadoc style system for Perl. It would be
> very dependant on multiline comments (I've seen the Perl 6 RFC).
Why so?
> I think this idea would be really good for Perl 6,
> because, in my opinion, POD i
* Jonadab the Unsightly One ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [01 Jul 2003 23:41]:
> Iain Truskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Not the only one. And with Parrot being able to execute
> > Z-code, it might be sane to port Inform to Parrot!
> Did you mean port Inform to run on Par
* Jonadab the Unsightly One ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [30 Jun 2003 12:37]:
[...]
> The feature I'm most looking forward to in Perl6 is the improved
> object model. One of my first languages was Inform [...], so I got
> spoiled early in terms of what objects are supposed to be like.
Not the only one. A
* Damian Conway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [08 Jul 2002 10:27]:
[...]
> > given my Doberman $sis is female = .dog[0] but pregnant -> $mother {
> > for my Doberman @puppies = new Doberman x $mother.littersize
> I'd have thought you'd need:
> for my Doberman @puppies = (new Doberman) x $mother
* Larry Wall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [23 Apr 2002 11:56]:
[...]
> * Parens always capture.
Maybe I missed something in the rest of the details, but is anything
going to replace non-capturing parens? It's just that I do find them
quite useful.
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* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [05 Apr 2002 00:34]:
> hi,
> I thought it will be good if on dev.perl6.org we have an arhive with
> all Apo's and Ex's, so anyone can get them in pack... (prefebaly
> printed version) Throught the links I got all except Apo1. Anyone to
> have the link nearb
* Bryan C. Warnock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20 Jan 2002 05:33]:
> On Saturday 19 January 2002 12:20, iain truskett wrote:
[...]
> > It's a worry. Also odd is that Slashdot hasn't picked it up yet.
> Developers' section.
/me fossicks through configuration.
Ah. Did
* Bart Lateur ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20 Jan 2002 03:56]:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:33:48 -0500, Will Coleda wrote:
> > http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/15/apo4.html
[...]
> I thought I had just missed it... but there's no trace of it in the
> archives of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Or any other perl6 list.
backs perl the most to publish something so disgustingly myopic
> is unconscionable.
Erm. No. A reply article would be much more suitable. Pulling things
would feel like sweeping dirt under the carpet.
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FC and changed to being a general Perl community RFC.
Find out who is in charge of the current documentation and work with
them?
(Oh, and yes, I did miss the RFC on its release.)
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* Philip Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [28 Sep 2000 21:19]:
> On 27 Sep 2000, at 23:48, iain truskett wrote:
> > So surely you'd want %HTTP (the input headers) to also be an array
> > rather than a hash, since they'd be required in order as well?
> I don't care, be
ve more than just a syntactic use. They provide a
visual aid to the delineation of blocks.
Anyway. That was my irrelevant rant for the day. Erm. I'll go away now.
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7 Your eyes stay open when you sneeze.
S
instead that does such auto-formatting?
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6 You've worn out your third pair of tennis shoes this week.
ick is getting the average programmer
to actually read the documentation. Hence, it's mostly a case of putting
more 'practical' examples of its use in the manual.
Of course, I would be interested in seeing a version of Q::S that worked
with threads and/or multiprocesses.
I'll
A character with the ASCII value of zero. It's used by C
> and some Unix syscalls to terminate strings, but Perl allows
> strings to contain a null.
> NULL LIST:
> A list value with zero elements, represented in Perl by ().
And a NULL SCAL
* Tom Christiansen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [21 Sep 2000 05:49]:
> > no strict;
> > $a = undef;
> > $b = null;
> Perl already has a null string: "".
Looks more like a string of no length than a null string.
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itself.
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Define the universe. Give three examples.
^0 }, [[],[]], @numbers;
Damian writes:
> Note that the original @_-based *didn't* need one, because ->'s are
> optional between ] and [.
My apologies for any confusion arising. If the RFC goes another
'developing' version, would it be possible for you to include the ^0
based one?
* Jonathan Scott Duff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20 Sep 2000 07:43]:
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 07:31:35AM +1100, iain truskett wrote:
[...]
> > $sorted = reduce { push @{ ^0 [ ^1 % 2 ] }, ^1; ^0 }, [[],[]], @numbers;
> I guess I'm confused with the syntax. Shouldn't the
cond array, and even numbers (i.e. x % 2 == 0) in the first one
(the zeroth array). Then return the new (filled out) pair of arrays for
the next number.
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16 Instant coffee takes too long.
#x27;s
not what we want, surely?
The joy of 'my' (and the equivalent declarations in C/Pascal/etc.) is
that it traps such things.
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* Nick Ing-Simmons ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [10 Sep 2000 06:38]:
[...]
> This is a feature of perforce that is useful - it can warn you that
> you are about to change a file that someone else is already working
> on.
As can CVS.
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mber.html
> and http://dev.perl.org/rfc/by-group.html
Perhaps have by-date.html as well? [sorted by date of last submission
--- most recent at top]
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,
revision, date, author, title and list. Unfortunately, the site is
firewalled.
If someone wants the code (which is very simplistic imho) they're
welcome to it. (Mail me personally at [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
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* Damien Neil ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [24 Aug 2000 08:27]:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 06:53:31AM +1000, iain truskett wrote:
> > >/* File: C:\user\jv\demo.java */
> >
> > > t.java:1: Invalid escape character.
> > > /* File: C:\user\jv\demo.java */
> > In
* Johan Vromans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [24 Aug 2000 06:59]:
> iain truskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > With SLC, discarding a line if it starts with a # (after optional
> > > whitespace) is straightforward, fail safe, and fast.
> >
> > Almost. You can
* Johan Vromans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [24 Aug 2000 06:39]:
> iain truskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > It's not *that* slow. Just means the parser is looking for /* as
> > well as */ ...
> And "/*" and ""/*" and '/*' and qw(*/) a
nting out large blocks (more than one visual page)
> > is highly confusing unless you can clearly see what is commented
> > out, for example, by prefixing every line with a '#' or so.
> This is still an option, under every proposal here. No one proposing
> that "
or which colours it, say, green.
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"Green is the colour for aliens." --- Terrance Dicks.
"Comments are typically alien to code." --- Iain Truskett.
C<'> and C<">.
Why and how?
> * Remove C as a synonym for C
Why?
> Some of these are mine, some of them are ideas I remember seeing
> someone else mention, but I don't see RFCs for. Am I missing them, or
> do they need to be written up?
They do --
o come up with the idea.
How often have you ever said "Hey! That's cool! Wish I'd thought of
that!"?
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That's why I am using Vim. -- Anonymous.
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