[Quoting Tom Christiansen, on August 31 1999, 18:14, in "Re: POD [LONG] "] ... Very unfortunate -- but quite common with publishers... -- Johan...
Johan Vromans
JVromans@...
Sep 1, 1999 7:40 am
55776
... One possible reason is that you are running out of semaphores either in your machine or in your account. Some applications such as databases reserve...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
jhi@...
Sep 1, 1999 8:26 am
55777
... All the troff-aware had either been bumped to management or were having RSI surgery recovery. And the new kids never learned it. --tom...
Tom Christiansen
tchrist@...
Sep 1, 1999 11:25 am
55778
... Could you please resubmit your patch redone with diff -u or diff -c? Also mentioning to which perl version it is applicable would be nice. -- $jhi++; #...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
jhi@...
Sep 1, 1999 12:13 pm
55779
This is a build failure report for perl from ml@zaphod, generated with the help of perlbug 1.27 running under perl 5.00561. ... [Please enter your report here]...
Laszlo Molnar
laszlo.molnar@...
Sep 1, 1999 12:18 pm
55780
... Perl 5.6 should be aware of large files but only iff separately Configured with -Duse64bits. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
jhi@...
Sep 1, 1999 12:46 pm
55781
FYI, You all seem to be missing the point. One person asked a general question. One person provided a general answer. No one is trying to tell anyone to do...
... Oops, sorry, I blame my flu for not being able to scroll the whole message all the way to its end... Thanks for the patch. -- $jhi++; #...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
jhi@...
Sep 1, 1999 1:52 pm
55784
... I'm glad someone else has flu, I thought it was only my programs which had bugs :-) Drip, drip... Ciao Richard Foley ... richard@... "Ciao" - (shorter...
Foley, Richard
Richard.Foley@...
Sep 1, 1999 2:10 pm
55785
... To me, a better way to go is to make my @bits : intvec(1); $bits[$x] = 1; work as efficiently as vec($bits, $x, 1) = 1; That is, enable representation...
Larry Wall
larry@...
Sep 1, 1999 2:35 pm
55786
... Seems like the 4 arg vec is more like a general bit oriented access operator. The existing vec drives like an array of small integers. You could call the...
Barrie Slaymaker
barries@...
Sep 1, 1999 3:09 pm
55787
A memory leak is occurring in my web-testing robots when using: perl, version 5.005_03 built for i686-linux running on a Dell PIII 500 MHz, Linux 2.2.5 The...
Bill Spurlin
wjspurlin@...
Sep 1, 1999 4:39 pm
55788
Can we please get rid of the useless day range check in Time::Local? Pleeease? I recall this being argued before. $ perl -MTime::Local -e 'print scalar...
John L. Allen
allen@...
Sep 1, 1999 5:31 pm
55789
... ^ should be 1 ... And this should have been Wed Mar 3 00:00:00 1999 ... John....
John L. Allen
allen@...
Sep 1, 1999 5:43 pm
55790
... First this needs a champion, and then it needs a mailing list, possibly an existing one. I think we should first come up with a DTD for XML (PodML?) that...
Larry Wall
larry@...
Sep 1, 1999 5:45 pm
55791
... pod-people comes to mind as an appropriate mailing list (thats the one I use for a lot of PodParser stuff I come across ;-) -- Brad Appleton...
Brad Appleton
bradapp@...
Sep 1, 1999 6:44 pm
55792
... If read_an_A is not yet defined (or declared, in this case), then it's an error (though it could be pragma-controllable: ...
Steve Fink
sfink@...
Sep 1, 1999 7:17 pm
55793
Background ========== ... I found a workaround for this. Before I came across the workaround, I upgraded to Solaris 2.7 on this machine (a lowly IPX with a...
Brian Jepson
bjepson@...
Sep 1, 1999 7:26 pm
55794
In article <199909010633.CAA04372@...>, ... The difference seems to be mainly: - I propose an explicit "bytes" code - old strings lean...
Ton Hospel
thospel@...
Sep 1, 1999 7:31 pm
55795
... I do not think this would be a useful feature. $a->blah() if $a->can('blah'); # Or if $a->foo() eq 'laq'; is quite common. ... This is core check, not a...
Ilya Zakharevich
ilya@...
Sep 1, 1999 7:42 pm
55796
... Why do we need to care about such esoteric things as wchar_t? Are they used anywhere near the things Perl does? Is not it enough to handle this in...
Ilya Zakharevich
ilya@...
Sep 1, 1999 7:46 pm
55797
... You simply wouldn't turn on the checks if you were going to write such dynamic code. Or you would refrain from declaring the variable. ... Not if the base...
Larry Wall
larry@...
Sep 1, 1999 8:00 pm
55798
... Indeed, I argued it before. But I proposed something slightly more radical: get rid of *all* range checking. Checking the range of each arguement is...
duff@...
Sep 1, 1999 8:30 pm
55799
... Nope, this is not a difference. In my proposal if an SV is not marked as SvISWIDE, "integers of the string" are encoded as bytes=octets. ... I do not...
Ilya Zakharevich
ilya@...
Sep 1, 1999 8:37 pm
55800
... WOW! Perl meets Abstract Classes! I hope the encounter is not as fatal as it was for Bambi... ... I hope one will be able to sacrifice this without...
Ilya Zakharevich
ilya@...
Sep 1, 1999 9:24 pm
55801
this is a bug report for perl from lucs@... generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00502. ... [Please enter your report here] If the...
Luc St-Louis
lucs@...
Sep 1, 1999 9:29 pm
55802
... I would say that this is for the same reason that ($x = 1, ++$x, ++$x) returns the list (3, 3, 3). ($x = 3) assigns 3 to $x, and pushes a reference to $x...
Ronald J Kimball
rjk@...
Sep 1, 1999 9:39 pm
55803
This is a build failure report for perl from hansmu@..., generated with the help of perlbug 1.27 running under perl 5.00561. The patch below deals with...
hansm@...
Sep 1, 1999 10:12 pm
55804
... I think this may be a better general way to avoid lost read buffer contents on all platforms. We need to have a Configure test to see which way works and...