Re: Converting a Perl 5 "pseudo-continuation" to Perl 6

2009-01-01 Thread Geoffrey Broadwell
On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 00:30 +0200, Leon Timmermans wrote: > I can't help wondering "why does pid_file_handler need to be split up > in the first place?" Why wouldn't it be possible to simply call > pid_file_handler after become_daemon? Two answers: 1. If an error occurs that will not allow the PI

Converting a Perl 5 "pseudo-continuation" to Perl 6

2009-01-01 Thread Geoffrey Broadwell
In the below Perl 5 code, I refactored to pull the two halves of the PID file handling out of init_server(), but to do so, I had to return a sub from pid_file_handler() that acted as a "continuation". The syntax is a bit ugly, though. Is there a cleaner way to this in Perl 6? ## sub init_ser

Re: Converting a Perl 5 "pseudo-continuation" to Perl 6

2009-01-01 Thread Leon Timmermans
I can't help wondering "why does pid_file_handler need to be split up in the first place?" Why wouldn't it be possible to simply call pid_file_handler after become_daemon? Regards, Leon Timmermans On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote: > In the below Perl 5 code, I refactore