I have a simple random graphic chooser running as a cgi on a Solaris 2.6 Ultra enterprise2. Perl is 5004 The program opens a file handle reads the data into...
Lloyd Vancil
lev@...
Jan 1, 1998 8:13 am
14471
... Nope. _56 does not use the _r versions. I took a look at it and it will require a lot of Configure hacking; as the POSIX threads standard was long in...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
jhi@...
Jan 1, 1998 8:11 pm
14472
... This still doesn't address the issue of having to build two versions of every module that requires a .so part. Alan Burlison...
Alan Burlison
alan.burlison@...
Jan 1, 1998 7:05 pm
14473
... Probably so. At least you have acknowledged that there are some significant problems, so lets just say that I have achieved my goal then ;-) ... Hmm....
Alan Burlison
alan.burlison@...
Jan 1, 1998 7:00 pm
14474
... How do you see this being done? Would the _r versions be used 'under the covers', with perl managing the buffer required by the _r versions and presenting...
Alan Burlison
alan.burlison@...
Jan 1, 1998 7:08 pm
14475
... It must be done under the covers. If the gory _r interfaces are revealed to the user, chaos will: just imagine an average user having to support two sets...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
jhi@...
Jan 1, 1998 9:17 pm
14476
... Thanks, that builds and tests clean, and my original code now gives: A's population: 1 B's population: 1 $VAR1 = bless( { SUPER => 'A' }, 'B' ); B::DESTROY...
Hugo van der Sanden
hv@...
Jan 1, 1998 9:19 pm
14477
... I found that this can also be applied happily to _04, with only some minor variation to de-ANSIfy the function argument declarations. ... .. but I found...
Hugo van der Sanden
hv@...
Jan 1, 1998 10:26 pm
14478
... The man program (a C rewrite of my perlman, it appears) that ships with Linux does a and c, reformatting to your own screen size. It doesn't do b, but...
Tom Christiansen
tchrist@...
Jan 1, 1998 7:24 pm
14479
Oh, and my pager options are LESS=MQecsi, if that matters. --tom...
Tom Christiansen
tchrist@...
Jan 1, 1998 7:26 pm
14480
... Tom, I realize that you like man, but there are some of us at least who think that the default output quality of man, for viewing on an ASCII terminal,...
Russ Allbery
rra@...
Jan 1, 1998 5:59 pm
14481
... Its really just a comment about the value that BREAK_EVEN should be set to when compiling qsort. I'm not positive the qsort part of the algorithm will ...
Tom Horsley
tom@...
Jan 1, 1998 9:55 pm
14482
To: The Perl Porters Mailing List <perl5-porters@...> Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 09:18:59 -0700 From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg> Being continually...
Tom Christiansen
tchrist@...
Jan 2, 1998 9:46 pm
14483
... What a shitty attitude! Very well. I shall write a formal spec on the whole Perl documentation issue. This law's purpose shall etch into stone the common...
Tom Christiansen
tchrist@...
Jan 2, 1998 9:46 pm
14484
... What use are command line args to me when MakeMaker calls pod2man automatically ?? Graham....
Graham Barr
gbarr@...
Jan 2, 1998 10:53 pm
14485
... I can see both sides here: Graham's - this isn't a traditional man page so why should it have to have a DESCRIPTION section. There are some .pod's in Tk...
Nick Ing-Simmons
nick@...
Jan 3, 1998 4:33 am
14486
... Next time when pod2man complains anything I will not propagate the complaint further. Honest. Tom, are you really saying that pod Shall Always Be Written...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
jhi@...
Jan 3, 1998 6:59 am
14487
... Why do you write books that are not reference manuals? Having a FAQ as well as...
Nick Ing-Simmons
nick@...
Jan 3, 1998 4:38 am
14488
... Well I think the same of your too. ... Very well as my documentation is not good enoght, I shall delete all of it, while I am at it I will delete all the...
Graham Barr
gbarr@...
Jan 2, 1998 10:55 pm
14489
... Taking your bat and ball and going home may feel g...
Tom Christiansen
tchrist@...
Jan 2, 1998 9:58 pm
14490
... What, Graham didn't bow quickly to the will of the Always Correct Master of Perl? ... A formal spec is a good idea. Whether it will become a law depends...
R Bradley
rick@...
Jan 3, 1998 12:06 am
14491
... Stop THIS insanity! Graham, TomC, you both, go plunge your head into a bucketful of cold water. Exhale. Unplunge. Inhale. Repeat. Don't forget that...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
jhi@...
Jan 3, 1998 7:16 am
14492
While the letter of podlaw may wax long, the executive summary can be expressed without recourse to lawyers. Here then in a nutshell is what I perceive to be...
Tom Christiansen
tchrist@...
Jan 2, 1998 10:33 pm
14493
... nothing, but I do not read anything in this passage that it will be installed in man format, and that all pod files must conform to a man standard. In fact...
Graham Barr
gbarr@...
Jan 2, 1998 11:44 pm
14494
... Then s/xxx/man/ s/xxx/html/ s/xxx/text/ If you are installing something that the standard readers, pod2{...
Tom Christiansen
tchrist@...
Jan 2, 1998 10:49 pm
14495
Ed Peschko
epeschko@...
Jan 2, 1998 9:21 pm
14496
... Ya caught me. You're right, of course. But my suggestion still stands, that quantifiers that look like {1-100} deserve a helpful warning. (And I'd argue...
Tom Phoenix
rootbeer@...
Jan 2, 1998 10:38 pm
14497
In message "Re: No checking of RE repeat counts", ... I think he means (forget about the folding) that often people do: /\d{1-10}/ and mean: /\d{1,10}/ And...
Mark Mielke
markm@...
Jan 3, 1998 1:43 am
14498
... Sure,POD files are documentation, but not all documentation are man pages, nor should they have to be. When I get software from suppliers it comes with...
Graham Barr
gbarr@...
Jan 3, 1998 12:39 am
14499
... I agree, but that is not the point. The point is that the file in question is not a man page. Yes it is documentation but not a manual. Graham....