Re: This is PDD #1--a high-level overview of the perl system

2001-01-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:49 PM 1/4/01 +, Simon Cozens wrote: >On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:34:04PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: > > > "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > DS> A subsystem is, in this instance at least, a piece of perl that > > DS> can more or less stand alone, but cross modules

Re: This is PDD #1--a high-level overview of the perl system

2001-01-04 Thread Simon Cozens
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:34:04PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: > > "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > DS> A subsystem is, in this instance at least, a piece of perl that > DS> can more or less stand alone, but cross modules ... > DS> Safe signals live pretty much entirely i

Re: This is PDD #1--a high-level overview of the perl system

2001-01-03 Thread Uri Guttman
> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DS> A subsystem is, in this instance at least, a piece of perl that DS> can more or less stand alone, but cross modules. The regex engine, DS> for example, is pretty much a black box--hings go in and come out, DS> an Magic Happens ins

Re: This is PDD #1--a high-level overview of the perl system

2001-01-03 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 04:13 PM 1/3/01 -0800, Nathan Wiger wrote: >First off, this looks really cool to me, nice job. The only thing I'm a >little surprised by is this: > > > =head2 Independent subsystems > > > > Perl also has a number of subsystems that are independent of any > > single module. > > > > =item PerlIO

Re: This is PDD #1--a high-level overview of the perl system

2001-01-03 Thread Nathan Wiger
First off, this looks really cool to me, nice job. The only thing I'm a little surprised by is this: > =head2 Independent subsystems > > Perl also has a number of subsystems that are independent of any > single module. > > =item PerlIO subsystem > > =item Regex engine I would have actually ex

This is PDD #1--a high-level overview of the perl system

2001-01-03 Thread Dan Sugalski
Here's PDD #1, the first of the internals perl documents. (Bcc'd to the RFC librarian, so he doesn't get a zillion replies) Cut here =head1 TITLE A high-level overview of the perl system =head1 VERSION =head2 CURRENT Maintainer: Dan Sugalski Class: Meta PDD Number: 1 V