Re: supporting older perls

2007-03-04 Thread Dr.Ruud
Greg Matheson schreef: A. Pagaltzis: Write the same thing without syntactic sugar from constant.pm. sub C1 () { 'C1' } Mmh. I see constant.pm does very little. Well, it nicely sets things up for the compiler to optimize. perl -MO=Deparse -e 'use constant PI = 3.1415; print PI'

Re: supporting older perls

2007-03-04 Thread Keith Ivey
Dr.Ruud wrote: Greg Matheson schreef: A. Pagaltzis: Write the same thing without syntactic sugar from constant.pm. sub C1 () { 'C1' } Mmh. I see constant.pm does very little. Well, it nicely sets things up for the compiler to optimize. perl -MO=Deparse -e 'use constant PI =

Re: Custom extensions to META.yml

2007-03-04 Thread brian d foy
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ricardo SIGNES [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * brian d foy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-03-03T13:31:15] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ricardo SIGNES [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: extensions: CPAN::Reporter: cc_author: 0 I think in some cases this

Re: Custom extensions to META.yml

2007-03-04 Thread Chris Dolan
On Mar 2, 2007, at 4:45 PM, David Golden wrote: For the META.yml spec, should anything not expressly allowed be forbidden? No. Be liberal in what you accept and conservative in what you emit. Everything is hell for back/forward compatibility. Personally, The best solution is to have an

Re: Custom extensions to META.yml

2007-03-04 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Chris Dolan # on Sunday 04 March 2007 11:44 am: To insure that collisions are impossible, how about a URI for   the prefs wrapper like below (sorry, not sure if this is valid YAML)    extensions:      'http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN-Reporter/':         cc_author: 0 That prevents