... Just use overload::StrVal($obj) =~ /=ARRAY/ ... See above. -- Gisle Aas...
Gisle Aas
gisle@...
Feb 1, 1998 8:54 am
16646
Well, my usually wierd p5p list performance took a major turn for the worse yesterday, and I got 350 back messages in the course of an hour or so; some of them...
Geoffrey Broadwell
habusan2@...
Feb 1, 1998 10:23 am
16647
... `Objectionable Perl'? -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/~jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
jhi@...
Feb 1, 1998 11:51 am
16648
... Correct. ... You usually can actually, system calls accept either....
Nick Ing-Simmons
nick@...
Feb 1, 1998 11:54 am
16649
... Yes. ... No. ... Neither. If PerlIO is simply enabled (without SFIO), then we just get stdio behaviour, but with extra function-call overhead. So perl is...
Nick Ing-Simmons
nick@...
Feb 1, 1998 11:54 am
16650
... Change last sentence to : "Using sfio as the PerlIO abstraction layer may cause problems with some extension modules." e.g. if extension expects SvIO(gv)...
Nick Ing-Simmons
nick@...
Feb 1, 1998 11:55 am
16651
abigail@...
Feb 1, 1998 11:55 am
16652
... IMO the latter, I am not an authority other than being the author of one of the larger OO perl module sets (Tk). ... It is a supported feature. It is also...
Nick Ing-Simmons
nick@...
Feb 1, 1998 11:55 am
16653
... Veritas HA (High Availability) includes Perl 5.002. Note that this is actually the OpenVision product Axxion HA, not Veritas Firstwatch (Veritas and...
Lupe Christoph
lupe@...
Feb 1, 1998 12:30 pm
16654
Brandon S. Allbery KF...
bsa@...
Feb 1, 1998 2:13 pm
16655
... GB> Ah so as I wrote IO.pm I own all of the IO::* namespace, and because Nick GB> wrote Tk.pm he owns all the Tk::* namespaces and Gisle owns all of LWP::*...
Chaim Frenkel
chaimf@...
Feb 1, 1998 4:43 pm
16656
I am using perl 5.00404. I have a server program that on receiving a signal re-reads a gdbm file. This signal is sent by another program as soon as this gdbm...
Gerben Wierda
Gerben_Wierda@...
Feb 1, 1998 5:04 pm
16657
[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to Gisle Aas ... ... which should mean "the above will do *this* for you kinda transparently" ... Ilya...
Ilya Zakharevich
ilya@...
Feb 1, 1998 7:28 pm
16658
... How about adding: use methods(new foo bar); to mean that when used as barewords, those names cannot be subroutines calls, but may only be method names. ...
John Macdonald
jmm@...
Feb 1, 1998 8:00 pm
16659
... My thoughts entirely. :-) --tom...
Tom Christiansen
tchrist@...
Feb 1, 1998 8:05 pm
16660
... The next logical step from this, is that any "new" syntax (pun permitted to remain) that is related to constructors must be optional. Those ambiguous...
John Macdonald
jmm@...
Feb 1, 1998 8:27 pm
16661
... [...] ... That's probably ok as long as new('Foo') is also not forced to become Foo->new(). i.e. I'm against violating the "if it looks like a function...
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
Feb 1, 1998 8:53 pm
16662
... So how can you comment on how thigs work if you do not know ... I do not hold a say in what modules go into IO::* and Nick does not control the names of...
Graham Barr
gbarr@...
Feb 1, 1998 9:01 pm
16663
... Yep. This is a known problem. The system decided that the kernel I used was not going to behaive. (To protect against a TCP/IP attach.) Instead of just...
Alan Olsen
alan@...
Feb 1, 1998 9:02 pm
16664
... Hey, some of us like using coderefs as objects! :-) (See perltoot.) --tom...
Tom Christiansen
tchrist@...
Feb 1, 1998 9:06 pm
16665
... Sure, sure. They're neat, but too slow for objects in production. Besides, who needs to hide their objects in hard-to-see places? :-) - Sarathy. ...
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
Feb 1, 1998 9:28 pm
16666
You just do not know when to quit. There is about zero chance that perl will change the way packages are handled....
Graham Barr
gbarr@...
Feb 1, 1998 9:29 pm
16667
... Wow someone is looking for a real flaming, but I agree with you ... I sent in a patch for that sometime ago, but it never made it in. Graham....
Graham Barr
gbarr@...
Feb 1, 1998 9:36 pm
16668
Paul Marquess
pmarquess@...
Feb 1, 1998 9:55 pm
16669
This is a bug report for perl from davidb@..., generated with the help of perlbug 1.17 running under perl 5.004. ... [Please enter your report here] ...
david@...
Feb 1, 1998 9:56 pm
16670
Mind you, that sort of thing will lead to FooCorp buying FooCorp:: KickAss:: Sexy:: SuperFast:: Oik. That just makes me cringe. I don't want to see module...
Geoffrey Broadwell
habusan2@...
Feb 1, 1998 10:06 pm
16671
... Well, "use methods" is equally good at not breaking old code since no old code uses it. The only other trade-off is that "use methods" is more easily...
John Macdonald
jmm@...
Feb 1, 1998 10:07 pm
16672
... PM> But the scope of that will only be the "main" file. Anything that gets PM> included with a require/use/do will not be affected. Given my assumption...
Chaim Frenkel
chaimf@...
Feb 1, 1998 10:37 pm
16673
... Marvelous. That's just what the doctor ordered. ... Doggone it, we were _so_ close. It has to be -q or -X, I guess, if it is introduced at all. -- Chip...
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