... In my opinion we already *have* a porcine perl. I'm all in favour of taking stuff *out*, not putting more in. Alan Burlison...
Alan Burlison
Alan.Burlison@...
May 1, 1999 3:21 pm
48730
... Yes. I'd also love a copy of rfork(). I often end up writing benchmark test harnesses that have to do stuff across several different machines, and it's...
Alan Burlison
Alan.Burlison@...
May 1, 1999 3:39 pm
48731
... Combined with AVHVs and "use fields" it will make sure that you don't access attributes from $spot that aren't defined for Dogs. See the "fields" manpage. ...
Bart Schuller
schuller@...
May 1, 1999 3:59 pm
48732
... Because we aren't going around promoting the Eiffel way of doing OO in perl. Anyway, it would help if we had some more guiding documentation, base classes...
Bart Schuller
schuller@...
May 1, 1999 7:03 pm
48733
... Ah. So then so does the fact that the following: open(FILE, $0); print *FILE{IO}, "\n"; opendir(DIR, "."); print *DIR{IO}, "\n"; prints ...
Alan Burlison
Alan.Burlison@...
May 1, 1999 7:19 pm
48734
Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@...> wrote ... I always thought they conspired separately. Mike Guy...
M.J.T. Guy
mjtg@...
May 1, 1999 7:24 pm
48735
... I'm seriously thinking of rewriting perltoot in a more proscriptivist fashion. As in: "Do it this way". --tom -- Q. Why is this so clumsy? A. The trick is...
Tom Christiansen
tchrist@...
May 1, 1999 7:25 pm
48736
... Personally I have NEVER had to resort to Globs in a script. Note I said script, not module. I have used them in modules, but what proportion of the perl...
Alan Burlison
Alan.Burlison@...
May 1, 1999 7:25 pm
48737
This patch doesn't seem to have made it into 5.004_05 nor 5.005_03. It is in the current dev track. (My apologies for not following up on these various patches...
Hugo van der Sanden
hv@...
May 1, 1999 7:40 pm
48738
... If they were autoblessed, wouldn't that imply that IO::File and IO::Dir et al would have to be loaded into every script that opened a file or directory? I...
Alan Burlison
Alan.Burlison@...
May 1, 1999 7:42 pm
48739
... That's the theory, at least. But why is somewhat outside the class accessing those? Also, I believe several other shortcomings have been pointed out. ...
Tom Christiansen
tchrist@...
May 1, 1999 7:53 pm
48740
... It's all in the jeans. Hugo...
Hugo van der Sanden
hv@...
May 1, 1999 7:59 pm
48741
... I can install or unistall perl on any machine in our benchmark centre in under a second: ln -s /package/local /usr/local Never heard of NFS? If I want a...
Alan Burlison
Alan.Burlison@...
May 1, 1999 8:08 pm
48742
... No, all what I mean is, what's the type? Currently, you get an IO::Handle, which doesn't make a lot of sense for directories. :-) jhereg(tchrist)% perl...
Tom Christiansen
tchrist@...
May 1, 1999 8:23 pm
48743
... [...] ... The patch doesn't seem to have made it into 5.005_03, though it is in the dev track. Ref: ...
Hugo van der Sanden
hv@...
May 1, 1999 8:23 pm
48744
This is a success report for perl from hv@..., generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00405. Perl reported to build OK on this...
Hugo van der Sanden
hv@...
May 1, 1999 10:15 pm
48745
... Leave it to a guy from Sun to offer up NFS but forget automount or webfs ;) This was merely an exercise for the reader, not a 'why not xyz' discussion. In...
elaine ashton
elaine@...
May 1, 1999 10:15 pm
48746
... or #6 Find a better sysadmin or send them to training :) ... It is a clever hack, but I too am squeamish about /tmp. There are plenty of machines out there...
elaine ashton
elaine@...
May 1, 1999 10:43 pm
48747
Well, here's my thoughts. This is one possible scheme of things. I haven't considered what this may break or other ways in which it may be less than ideal....
Joseph N. Hall
joseph@...
May 1, 1999 10:51 pm
48748
... Just a simple ref to a gensym will do that, because $fh will have the only refcount on the symbol. It should also work for returning filehandles from a...
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
May 1, 1999 11:08 pm
48749
... Forgot to mention, sv_free() currently closes any open IO automatically. So the simple idiom could be as minimal as: { open my $fh, $fspec or die $!; ...
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
May 1, 1999 11:08 pm
48750
... Actually our /package directory *is* an automount :-) I also thought about mentioning all the other network-based filesystems, but thought it might prolong...
Alan Burlison
Alan.Burlison@...
May 1, 1999 11:12 pm
48751
... I have it filed it for consideration, but the existing way of reading lines by the lexer needs a small revamp. Perl should be keeping around not just a...
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
May 1, 1999 11:14 pm
48752
... Or have it "vectored" through one well padded copy : static char PL_install_prefix[MAXPATHLEN+128] = PERL_INSTALL_PREFIX; so that editing binary was easy -...
Nick Ing-Simmons
nick@...
May 1, 1999 11:23 pm
48753
... From an implementation point of view that is the same thing. Internally a warning state would be needed where $^W is disabled, neither of the -W or -X ...
paul.marquess@...
May 1, 1999 11:23 pm
48754
~s OK: perl 5.00405 on i486-linux 1.2.13 (UNINSTALLED) This is a success report for perl from hv@..., generated with the help of perlbug 1.26...
Hugo van der Sanden
hv@...
May 1, 1999 11:25 pm
48755
... I put a long enough link in /tmp to the real install location, use that long path as the prefix for Configure (-Dprefix=/tmp/ZZZZ...perl), build, install...
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
May 1, 1999 11:26 pm
48756
... A thinko, I suspect, considering I'm the suspect. Larry...
Larry Wall
larry@...
May 1, 1999 11:28 pm
48757
... While I am in pp_sys.c ... what others are "missing": fileno eof seek truncate flock ... -- Nick Ing-Simmons...
Nick Ing-Simmons
nick@...
May 1, 1999 11:29 pm
48758
This is a success report for perl from kstar@..., generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00405. Perl reported to build OK on this...
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