Re: [perl #37997] r10604 build failure on Cygwin

2005-12-21 Thread Nick Glencross
On 12/21/05, via RT Justin Koser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # New Ticket Created by Justin Koser # Please include the string: [perl #37997] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=37997 Hello Parrot

Re: handling undef better

2005-12-21 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Uri == Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Uri sorting in p6 is not at all like in p5. instead of coding up an explicit Uri comparison code block and duplicating all the key access code (for $a Uri and $b), you will specify how to extract/generate each key for a given Uri record. this new

Re: handling undef better

2005-12-21 Thread Uri Guttman
RLS == Randal L Schwartz merlyn@stonehenge.com writes: Uri == Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Uri sorting in p6 is not at all like in p5. instead of coding up an explicit Uri comparison code block and duplicating all the key access code (for $a Uri and $b), you will specify how to

Re: handling undef better

2005-12-21 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Uri == Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Uri i will let damian handle this one (if he sees it). but an idea would be Uri to allow some form ofkey extraction via a closure with lazy evaluation Uri of the secondary (and slower) key. I still don't see that. I understand about the lazy key

Re: handling undef better

2005-12-21 Thread Uri Guttman
RLS == Randal L Schwartz merlyn@stonehenge.com writes: Uri == Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Uri i will let damian handle this one (if he sees it). but an idea would be Uri to allow some form ofkey extraction via a closure with lazy evaluation Uri of the secondary (and slower) key.

Re: handling undef better

2005-12-21 Thread John Macdonald
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:25:09AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Uri == Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Uri i will let damian handle this one (if he sees it). but an idea would be Uri to allow some form ofkey extraction via a closure with lazy evaluation Uri of the secondary (and

Flexible testing

2005-12-21 Thread Joe McMahon
Here's a scenario we have here at Yahoo!. The code we're testing depends on XML feeds from backend servers, which may sometimes be overloaded and not respond. The frontend servers work around this, but it would be better if we could fail a test, wait a bit, then go back and run it again a

Re: Flexible testing

2005-12-21 Thread Adam Kennedy
For some variety, you might want to take a look at the JavaScript implemention of the Test::* family, which we managed to build asyncronous testing into, so you can do things like onTimeout pseudo-threads that will happen asyncronously from your main testing. Now granted, that doesn't deal

Problem with dwimmery

2005-12-21 Thread Luke Palmer
Recently, I believe we decided that {} should, as a special case, be an empty hash rather than a do-nothing code, because that's more common. However, what do we do about: while $x-- some_condition($x) {} Here, while is being passed a hash, not a do-nothing code. Should we force people to