--- Guy Hulbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 15:26 -0600, Jonathan Rockway wrote:
BTW, I like the term failed experiment. Isn't everything a
failed
experiment? Should we remove CGI.pm from the CPAN because
CGI.pm-style
code is a failed experiment in writing web
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 00:30 +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
* Guy Hulbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-07 21:50]:
CPAN is also littered with failed experiments.
So is the fossil record. Good thing nature didn’t quit
experimenting a billion years ago.
Note that I understand your concern. But, I
If there's a libfoo.so and I want to create a perl module/distribution
that's just a very thin wrapper around libfoo, what should I call it?
LibFoo
Lib::Foo
Lib::foo
Lib::libfoo
libfoo
SomeCategory::Libfoo
???
Tim.
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 03:45:26PM -0500, Guy Hulbert wrote:
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 14:28 -0600, Jonathan Rockway wrote:
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 10:44 -0800, Bill Ward wrote:
Experimenting with the language itself should be reserved for new
development such as Perl 6, not for trying to add
On Dec 6, 2007 7:22 PM, Eric Wilhelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
# from Bill Ward
# on Thursday 06 December 2007 16:23:
Cute experiment, but I REALLY hope nobody tries releasing useful
modules to CPAN that depend on this...
Cute comment, but I really hope nobody puts any stock in it. What
On Dec 7, 2007, at 5:30 PM, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
* Guy Hulbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-07 21:50]:
CPAN is also littered with failed experiments.
So is the fossil record. Good thing nature didn’t quit
experimenting a billion years ago.
mantra
CPAN thrives because of the unfettered
* Guy Hulbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-07 21:50]:
CPAN is also littered with failed experiments.
So is the fossil record. Good thing nature didn’t quit
experimenting a billion years ago.
Note that I understand your concern. But, I see two possible
outcomes: Macrame fizzles out, without
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 20:54 +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
One particular problem can be that if something you use adds a dependency
on something else you weren't previously using, so you can reach the
situation where upgrading to fix a bug will also bring in something new that
you didn't want
On Dec 6, 2007, at 20:30, David Nicol wrote:
I'm sort of stuck on how much records of line numbers of expanded
rewrites to
keep and how to encode them into the filename portion of the
#line comment.
In practice, debugging macros is maddening if you can't locate where
the macro is being
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 10:44 -0800, Bill Ward wrote:
On Dec 6, 2007 7:22 PM, Eric Wilhelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
# from Bill Ward
# on Thursday 06 December 2007 16:23:
Cute experiment, but I REALLY hope nobody tries releasing useful
modules to CPAN that depend on this...
Cute
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 14:28 -0600, Jonathan Rockway wrote:
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 10:44 -0800, Bill Ward wrote:
Experimenting with the language itself should be reserved for new
development such as Perl 6, not for trying to add yet more layers on
top of Perl 5.
Hi. Nobody cares about
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 10:44 -0800, Bill Ward wrote:
Experimenting with the language itself should be reserved for new
development such as Perl 6, not for trying to add yet more layers on
top of Perl 5.
Hi. Nobody cares about your opinion on this matter. Many perl5
experiments have been
humm... seems like we could/should make a module request list?
On 12/6/07, Chris Dolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear really-really-lazyweb,
Would someone please create a CPAN module that finds a wordlist on
the local computer in a cross-platform friendly manner, a la
File::HomeDir? For
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