Come on guys. I see 1 opposing viewpoint, to lots of agreeing views. Time to put a fork in it, or get moderation in to kill this insanity! And finally, if...
Matt Sergeant
matt@...
May 1, 2000 9:55 am
67433
Parse-Yapp-1.02 has just been uploaded to CPAN. It should be available soon on your nearest CPAN mirror. This version is mostly a bug fix. There was a *bad*...
François Désarm...
francois@...
May 1, 2000 12:45 pm
67434
... Would it be unreasonable to copy elements that need indexing to a separate statement outside the paragraph instead of using X<...>. Or is this the "for...
Norton Allen
allen@...
May 1, 2000 1:06 pm
67435
... That's what =for index would be for. If you X<frob> the datafile enough, all its X<blurgles> might pop. is (something) like If you I<frob> the datafile...
Tom Christiansen
tchrist@...
May 1, 2000 1:09 pm
67436
... ^^^^^ Does "would" imply that this isn't defined yet? Or that it is defined as in your simple examples but is open to additional extension....
Norton Allen
allen@...
May 1, 2000 1:15 pm
67437
... It's really defined yet, or at least, not vigorously. I incorporated X<> into the pod spec long ago, but never made much use of it. In fact, all I said...
Tom Christiansen
tchrist@...
May 1, 2000 1:26 pm
67438
... OK, I looked at perlpod and grepped the library and convinced myself that it hasn't been defined and hasn't been used, so it's open to definition. Yes,...
Norton Allen
allen@...
May 1, 2000 1:28 pm
67439
... Yes, those are useful syntaxes. I would add some syntax to distinguish the type of reference, and I think I would eschew the use of X<>, or as you imply,...
Norton Allen
allen@...
May 1, 2000 1:38 pm
67440
Recenltly, I needed a pod to html converter a bit different from all the versions already out there (in itself a comment on something). (I was using the...
Ton Hospel
thospel@...
May 1, 2000 1:58 pm
67441
... Frankly, I still think it's a good idea, present tense. But I'm also still not sure if it's the best idea, which is why I reserve judgement. We will...
Larry Wall
larry@...
May 1, 2000 2:56 pm
67442
... The =for diagnostics sections seem superfluous, because the =item can be shortened anyway without affecting the lookup. (See patch below.) ... [...] ... I...
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
May 1, 2000 3:24 pm
67443
Larry Wall [larry@...] quoth: *>find it's valuable to slow down the pace of core change as Perl grows *>up, and that means I let people chew on things...
Elaine -HFB- Ashton
elaine@...
May 1, 2000 4:23 pm
67444
... Perlhack seems to be general info about hacking Perl, while perlguts is mainly about the basic Perl interpreter data structures (and perldebguts is about...
Fisher Mark
fisherm@...
May 1, 2000 4:27 pm
67445
This is a bug report for perl from smurf@..., generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0. ... [Please enter your report here] ...
Matthias Urlichs
smurf@...
May 1, 2000 4:32 pm
67446
... Good spotting. You probably want to back out: Change 5989 by gsar@auger on 2000/04/28 08:27:12 qw(a\\b) must be parsed like 'a\\b', i.e., backslash...
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
May 1, 2000 4:56 pm
67447
... No, it should be X<closure>And this is what we call a closure. or X<closure> And this is what we call a closure. X<> by itself should be/is invisible. Ilya...
Ilya Zakharevich
ilya@...
May 1, 2000 5:36 pm
67448
... It is used. See perlfunc. Ilya...
Ilya Zakharevich
ilya@...
May 1, 2000 5:37 pm
67449
... I was referring to '=for index', not X<>....
Norton Allen
allen@...
May 1, 2000 5:41 pm
67450
... Well, I put Tom more in the category of an untamable horse. People do get trampled occasionally, but every Alexander needs a Bucephalus. Tom is spirited,...
Larry Wall
larry@...
May 1, 2000 5:47 pm
67451
... I'd make it default to visible, with hidden information possible a la L<>. Larry...
Larry Wall
larry@...
May 1, 2000 6:17 pm
67452
... a) What for? If you want a visible part, just add it there. It is not that often that a good index entry coincides literally with a part of the text....
Ilya Zakharevich
ilya@...
May 1, 2000 6:20 pm
67453
... Yes, I've thought for some time that there should be a canonical pod-to-XML translator. People keep signing up to do it someday. Larry...
Larry Wall
larry@...
May 1, 2000 6:27 pm
67454
Larry Wall [larry@...] quoth: *> *>Well, sure, and one doesn't have to marry just anybody. In larger groups *>one has less choice about the matter. ...
Elaine -HFB- Ashton
elaine@...
May 1, 2000 6:37 pm
67455
For the upcoming 5.6.1, we need to get mktables.PL in order. It has a number of deficiencies: * It should be processing under "use bytes", probably to avoid...
Larry Wall
larry@...
May 1, 2000 6:43 pm
67456
... Qualifier: I love grep. I have written 50-line programs, with control structures, using dirty tricks to keep multiple variables in the hold space, in...
Kurt D. Starsinic
kstar@...
May 1, 2000 7:00 pm
67457
... Somebody else who forgot to run splitpod. Alas. ... Huh? Let's cat it all together then. Screw separate pages. ... It is a scourge upon this earth. I...
Tom Christiansen
tchrist@...
May 1, 2000 7:02 pm
67458
Here's a perliminary sketch of the the promised perlrtfm manpage. This informative document will run only about twice this size once finished, or less. The...
Tom Christiansen
tchrist@...
May 1, 2000 7:03 pm
67459
... I'm one of the folks who considered doing this. When I got into it, I was thinking about the DTD, and ended up thinking it would make sense to convert to...
Gregor N. Purdy
gregor@...
May 1, 2000 7:03 pm
67460
My apologies for not chiming in sooner. ... It does do some amount of this now - and explicitly has the hooks in place for doing the rest of it. Look at the...
Brad Appleton
bradapp@...
May 1, 2000 7:05 pm
67461
... But if they have perl that is a non issue for Win32 at least where there is a command line: perl -ne "print if /^=item foo/" thing.pod -- Nick Ing-Simmons...
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