> >"Print this line.\n"<;
Some questions:
1. How do you specify alternate filehandles to output to?
select() doesn't count for the purposes of this question.
2. How do you support the list form of print, namely:
print "Hello there ", $r->fullname, "!\n";
3. Can you
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Perl should have a print operator
=head1 VERSION
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Date: 5 August 2000
Last-Modified: 17 August 2000
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=head1 TITLE
Angle brackets should not be used for file globbing
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Maintainer: Jon Ericson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 4 August 2000
Last-Modified: 17 August 2000
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Graham Barr wrote:
>
>
> Create a new handle, like $DEFOUT. Then there would be no need
> for selectsaver either as you would do the equiv. of
>
> local($DEFOUT) = $newhandle;
Just submitted an RFC on this exact idea.
-Nate
> So, what's so portable about file:// URLs again? How do they magically
> know that //c/ means / on UNIX? What do they do with //z/?
This is only one example. I'm not sure it's the best way. It's
definitely not the only way. Chaim asked:
> Or for that matter "file://u/frankeh/Projects" become
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 08:27:04PM +, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> Perl6 Rfc Librarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >In addition, this RFC recommends deprecating select(), since it is no
> >longer needed with the new fileobject approach described in RFC 14.
> >
> >
> > $oldoutput = select(
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> >
> > You forget that open() handles all the magic. "| ...", " ...|", and
> > the rest of the family. Sysopen specifically doesn't. So one could
> > easily (and does) use open to do the magic, and then uses sysread/syswrite
> > to
Chaim Frenkel wrote:
>
> You forget that open() handles all the magic. "| ...", " ...|", and
> the rest of the family. Sysopen specifically doesn't. So one could
> easily (and does) use open to do the magic, and then uses sysread/syswrite
> to handle the dirty details of playing with a pipe.
Yea
> Random thoughts:
>
> open "http://www.perl.com";
> open "http://www.perl.com?foo=bar&baz=blat";
> open "http://www.perl.com", %args;
> open "http://www.perl.com", { mode => 'POST' }, %args;
>
> Hmm. I think that "modes" should be made explicit rather than relyi
Nathan Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>For other stuff, like print(), instead of using the "currently selected
>filehandle", just always have it print to $STDOUT unless something's
>specified. So:
>
> $oldstdout = $STDOUT;
> $STDOUT = $myfileobject;
> print "Hello, world!"; # always p
Michael Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 08:49:00AM -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
>> In addition, this RFC recommends deprecating select(), since it is no
>> longer needed with the new fileobject approach described in RFC 14.
>
>You should probably mention here that
Perl6 Rfc Librarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>In addition, this RFC recommends deprecating select(), since it is no
>longer needed with the new fileobject approach described in RFC 14.
>
>
> $oldoutput = select($newoutput);
>
>Can now be written simply as reassignments:
>
> $oldoutput = $
Johan Vromans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Nathan Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>$fo = open "C:\Windows\System\IOSUBSYS\RMM.PDR";
>>$fo->pathdrive = "C:" ;
>
>I think the drive is "C", not "C:".
The reason for including the ':' is so that the rule for reconstructing
the path is ea
Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 02:16:31AM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
>> [cc'ed on internals as FYI]
>>
>> > =item 36 (v1): Structured Internal Representation of Filenames
>>
>> I think this should be discussed a good amount. I think URIs are cool,
>> but t
Nathan Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Admittedly, it does look cooler, but consider this:
>
> open 'http://www.yahoo.com/';
> open 'https://www.etrade.com/';# what module? https?
Yes - if you don't have one it fails "https protocol not found".
>
>No matter what, you're going to h
Simply Hao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> But there is no way that I want under, any circumstance, _all_
>> line endings active at the same time.
>
>Why not?
Because native tools won't behave like that and we want to mimic them
(at least as an option).
>
>Well, how about this proposal then?
>
>D
Chaim Frenkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>What about native extensions? I think VMS (and the old TOPS10) had versions
>as part of the file name.
>
>Do URIs have this capablity?
>
>And what does a read of a directory return? URIs or Native?
Relative URIs I assume - what are (hopefully) indistingu
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 07:39:33AM -0700, Dave Storrs wrote:
> > How about instead we build the DFA [regex engine], with its more
> > limited syntax, but it must be manually turned on by use of a flag
> > (similar to the 'o' precompiled fla
I'll try to scrap and rewrite the RFC this weekend.
> $/ = qr/[\r\n]/f; # fast ?
How about we use the specialized DFA regex, but also slightly
different notation?
-Hao
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 07:39:33AM -0700, Dave Storrs wrote:
> The idea of having two different regex "languages" in Perl makes
> me very, very nervous. Potential for confusion
Indeed.
> How about instead we build the DFA as you describe, with its more
> limited syntax, but it must
On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Bart Lateur wrote:
[...]
> different either. I too think that the input file separator should have
> regexish features, if the programmer wishes so. Now, one can only set $/
[...]
> My thoughts would be: a DFA regex engine, i.e. a state machine which is
> controlled by the n
Nathan Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> With URI support, you still have to contort a little, but not as much.
> Here's some better examples from an email I sent earlier:
>
>$fo = open "file://c/docs/personal";
>
># Unix = /docs/personal# here, 'c' becomes '/'
># Mac = :docs
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