RE: :, ::, :::, and :::: in P6REs

2002-08-22 Thread Paul Marquess
Is that the soon to be released E5? No, that's the to be released today E5. ;-) Yy!!

RE: Warnings, strict, and CPAN (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope for subs)

2001-02-22 Thread Paul Marquess
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ... The basic usefulness of warnings is not in question. This is about the *perception* of their utility. Warnings are only useful if the user heeds them. The question is, will having them on by default make the user more or less

RE: RFC 264 (v1) Provide a standard module to simplify the creation of source filters

2000-09-26 Thread Paul Marquess
From: Damian Conway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ... No. That's my point. I want to match BANG followed by maximal whitespace followed by another BANG. But a line-by-line filter fails dismally if that maximal whitespace contains a newline. Admittedly this particular example is contrived for

RE: Proposed enhancement to the warnings pragma for Module writers

2000-08-14 Thread Paul Marquess
From: Simon Cozens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:36:48PM -0400, Ronald J Kimball wrote: On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:04:41PM +0100, Paul Marquess wrote: I'm cc-ing this to p6 because there doesn't seem to be anyone left on p5p. Then who is generating all