Help! I'm having trouble trying to use Brooks' parsing library, am new to perl and don't quite know how to proceed with this. If anyone out there has been...
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Martijn Koster
m.koster@...
Feb 24, 1995 8:58 am
... 'work' might be a bit of an overstatement. ... I learnt about the Module List from perl5-porters, but only after doing the work. I nearly mailed you to...
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Martijn Koster
m.koster@...
Feb 24, 1995 11:28 am
Tim, here is a line for the Module List. ... Hmm, I wonder if it's worth to write an HMTL converter for it... Probably not :-) ... In that case I suppose I can...
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Martijn Koster
m.koster@...
Feb 24, 1995 3:19 pm
... Gisle, I've had a quick play with your library, and have got some random constructive critcisms. First of all a compliment; it's nice to see movement on...
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Gisle.Aas@...
Feb 24, 1995 4:11 pm
I just requested subscription on the libwww-perl list today. Hopefully I will start getting mail back from it soon. The latest version of my library can be...
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Tim Bunce
Tim.Bunce@...
Feb 24, 1995 4:17 pm
... One day maybe. If it starts to get difficult to manage I may want to put the info into some kind of database. If I do that it'll be much easier to write it...
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Martijn Koster
m.koster@...
Feb 24, 1995 6:29 pm
And all of a sudden things move fast :-) ... I do agree attributions should be in a README, but design coments should be in the code. Also consider that people...
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D-P Deng
deng@...
Feb 24, 1995 8:44 pm
I'm using htget.pl to mirror a site in China which has a slow internet connection. The problem is that htget.pl gets every file every time. I'm looking for...
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Martijn Koster
m.koster@...
Feb 27, 1995 7:54 am
... Hmm, you don't want to pollute the toplevel namespace too much... We need to allow future the Common Graphics Interchange modules and the Cool Goodies and...
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Gisle.Aas@...
Feb 28, 1995 10:26 am
... We'll see :-( ... The alternatives for return value from WWW::request are (as I see it): 1) an integer value and provide some package functions: ...
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Martijn Koster
m.koster@...
Feb 28, 1995 11:22 am
... Well, I hope to get a little bit more time to work on this soon. How up-to-date is your tar file? Can I send diffs? I'll try and put in the URL mehods and...
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Gisle.Aas@...
Feb 28, 1995 11:45 am
... I think the $magic stuff is not needed. Perl 5.001 implements closures which should be able to handle this better. You should be able to say: my $magic; ...
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Gisle.Aas@...
Feb 28, 1995 1:54 pm
... The tar file is up-to date. I would be happy to incorportate any patches. I will start using version numbers for the next release. ... I think splitting...
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Martijn Koster
m.koster@...
Feb 28, 1995 2:03 pm
... That'd be good, cause it's not really nice. ... Ehr... I'm not familiar with the term 'closure', can you elaborate? Are lexically scoped variables visible...
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Gisle.Aas@...
Feb 28, 1995 2:06 pm
... Subject: [comp.lang.perl] Re: What does the FSF have against Perl? Date: 16 Feb 1995 12:46:32 +0100 Newsgroups: ifi.test.boa Organization: NetLabs, Inc. ...
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Martijn Koster
m.koster@...
Feb 28, 1995 3:12 pm
... Yes, having separate classes for Request and Response is cleaner than just using a HTRequest which behaves different depending on if the data has been...
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Gisle.Aas@...
Feb 28, 1995 3:39 pm
... Why do we need this. Can the length be something else than what the perl function length($data) returns? ... OK. ... Don't think so. Returning undef on...
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Jack Shirazi - BIU
js@...
Feb 28, 1995 4:41 pm
... Unfortunately I've only been skimming, and can't contribute to the design discussion at the moment. But one thing I'd just like to check - as far as I...
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Martijn Koster
m.koster@...
Feb 28, 1995 7:10 pm
... I don't know how expensive length is (probably not very?)... if read() returns it, why not pass it in? ... I hope so. We simply don't know what sort of...
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Anthony Thyssen
anthony@...
Mar 1, 1995 12:20 am
... With all this discussion on the perl 5 library, what is happening to the perl 4 version. Has someone created a better FTP module for it, say one which...
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Andreas Koenig
k@...
Mar 1, 1995 12:35 am
From: Martijn Koster <m.koster@...> I don't know how expensive length is (probably not very?)... if read() returns it, why not pass it in? Perl knows...
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Martijn Koster
m.koster@...
Mar 1, 1995 5:22 pm
... I guess this size should be taken as an indiaction, not as a maximum; you may actually have > $size data easily available, then it seems a waste to have to...
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Jack Shirazi - BIU
js@...
Mar 2, 1995 11:45 am
... The ftp module was only an alpha release (I haven't heard that its gone further). I was hoping that someone who was actually using it would finish it off. ...
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Jack Shirazi - BIU
js@...
Mar 2, 1995 12:29 pm
... Had a quick peek while I printed it out, and there is a trivial change needed to support head - if I remember what head does ;-) Here's the diff: 38c38 <...
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Roy T. Fielding
fielding@...
Mar 5, 1995 1:29 pm
... I prefer absolute(), though I originally called it absolutely(;-) Are you sure that URL should be an object? That seems like an awful lot of overhead for...
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Roy T. Fielding
fielding@...
Mar 5, 1995 1:38 pm
... Very difficult in terms of understanding. The CERN library is massively mucked-up with C macros. You would also lose the ability to interactively debug...
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Roy T. Fielding
fielding@...
Mar 5, 1995 1:54 pm
... The perl 4 version is not dead -- just hibernating until I get the relative URL and HTTP/1.0 specifications published as RFCs. Shortly before that...
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Martijn Koster
m.koster@...
Mar 6, 1995 8:49 am
... I don't quite know what the overhead is, and given that Larry hasn't given much thought to optimisation in Perl 5 I'm not sure it's something we should...
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Tim Bunce
Tim.Bunce@...
Mar 6, 1995 2:16 pm
... Objects are very cheap. Feel free to use them widely. ... Indeed. ... It would be sad to have to argue the virtue of objects here. ... Very little...
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Eric Lease Morgan
morgan@...
Mar 6, 1995 3:04 pm
Roy said, ... while ... automated ... etc.)? I strongly suggest you implement the server as a listproc since majordomo does not support features like searching...
