Re: namespace check request

2010-11-26 Thread James E Keenan
Tim Esselens wrote: Hi, I have written a small perl module, and would like to include it on CPAN. https://github.com/blaze-x/net-ldap-filter-sql Am I using the correct namespace? -- kind regards, Tim Esselens You're inheriting from Net::LDAP::Filter, so this looks okay to me. jimk

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-11-26 Thread Paul LeoNerd Evans
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 04:54:31PM +0100, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote: In terms of Perl itself, apart from the reference syntax, the thing that really annoyed me recently was the lack of advanced debug tools, for example to find memory leaks. None of the tools I found or was pointed to

Re: Using a better compression than .gz for one's CPAN modules

2010-11-26 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il [2010-11-24 21:05]: Welcome to 2010. There are two kinds of fool. One says, “This is old, and therefore good.” And one says, “This is new, and therefore better.” —John Brunner Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-11-26 Thread Chris Dolan
On Nov 26, 2010, at 5:24 AM, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 04:54:31PM +0100, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote: In terms of Perl itself, apart from the reference syntax, the thing that really annoyed me recently was the lack of advanced debug tools, for example to find

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-11-26 Thread Todd Rinaldo
On Nov 24, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote: Gabor Szabo wrote: The other day I was at a client that uses Perl in part of their system and we talked a bit about the language and how we try to promote it at various events. Their Perl person then told me he would not use

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-11-26 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 10-11-26 11:20 AM, Todd Rinaldo wrote: I love the fork module. It's great how it's a drop in replacement for the threads module. It allows me to easily swap over to threads when I move code over to a machine that can use threads. I very much wish, however, that forks could get a return

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-11-26 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Fri, 26 Nov 2010, Shawn H Corey wrote: Sorry but fork(2) has been around longer than Perl. It is not something new but something very, very old (that's computer old, not human old). He's talking about forks.pm - http://search.cpan.org/dist/forks/ -dave

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-11-26 Thread David Golden
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Todd Rinaldo to...@cpanel.net wrote: I very much wish, however, that forks could get a return variable from the fork process like threads can. This has always frustrated me. To be honest, though, the fact that Linux forks are copy on write, takes much of the

Re: Using a better compression than .gz for one's CPAN modules

2010-11-26 Thread David Golden
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote:     There are two kinds of fool. One says,     “This is old, and therefore good.” And one says,     “This is new, and therefore better.” That put aside sticking with an older solution may be preferable due to the better