Re: RFC 184 (v1) Perl should support an interactive mode.

2000-09-01 Thread Markus Peter
/projects/psh/ -- Markus Peter - SPiN GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Are Perl6 threads preemptive or cooperative?

2000-08-29 Thread Markus Peter
command or whatever you'd use for locking works as fine-grained as desired, that means, in the current block, so we needn't lock the variable in the whole subroutine. -- Markus Peter - SPiN GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Are Perl6 threads preemptive or cooperative?

2000-08-25 Thread Markus Peter
well. (Or at least less poorly... :) Writing an own threading library also forces you to use cooperative threading as on many system emulating preemptive threads without system support is rather hard or impossible (especially blocking I/O is an issue there on some systems). -- Markus Peter - SPiN

Re: Are Perl6 threads preemptive or cooperative?

2000-08-25 Thread Markus Peter
with a higher "performance" (meaning speed) than preemptive, but cooperative is simply not as reliable as preemptive threading -- Markus Peter - SPiN GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC 143 (v1) Case ignoring eq and cmp operators

2000-08-24 Thread Markus Peter
***. It's a syntactic anomaly that does not fall out of anything else in the language. The analogy to m//i or s///g is a false one, as those are not functions I still say it looks familiar even if it's a false analogy. Another possibility would be to use cmpi and eqi -- Markus Peter - SPiN

Re: Exception handling [Was: Re: Things to remove]

2000-08-23 Thread Markus Peter
t the distinction we simply do not have the problem. And I definitely do NOT want to have a dozen wrapper modules or whatever till that usage withered away in CPAN in 95% of the modules after 1 year. -- Markus Peter - SPiN GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]

CORE symboltable should behave like any other?

2000-08-23 Thread Markus Peter
o exotic to be fixed? -- Markus Peter - SPiN GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PROTOPROPOSAL FOR NEW BACKSLASH was Re: impliedpascal-likewith or express

2000-08-23 Thread Markus Peter
ven better but then we'd run into troubles if you use variables instead of bare words and those variables contain numbers ;-) -- Markus Peter - SPiN GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC 139 (v1) Allow Calling Any Function With A Syntax Like s///

2000-08-23 Thread Markus Peter
sure what the advantage of that approach is except that you could overload m and s (which could also be added to use overload)? To me, this looks as if this probably has lots of potential for perl poetry but not for programming... -- Markus Peter - SPiN GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: On the case for exception-based error handling.

2000-08-22 Thread Markus Peter
to -- Markus Peter - SPiN GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Time core object and localtime() again

2000-08-22 Thread Markus Peter
timezone information or complete timezone information those zones would not be available until somebody installs a zoneinfo package or whatever - where exactly is the problem there? -- Markus Peter - SPiN GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: On the case for exception-based error handling.

2000-08-22 Thread Markus Peter
al effects, it's not necessarily evil, we should only ensure that it cannot be used from within a .pm -- Markus Peter - SPiN GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: $ME in a method called as a subroutine

2000-08-22 Thread Markus Peter
need an additional variable then - either one which holds specifically the last object (like $LAST_ME or whatever) or one which holds information about the way the sub was called. I'd still prefer the first alternative then as it appears cleaner to me somehow. -- Markus Peter - SPiN GmbH [EMAIL

Re: $ME in a method called as a subroutine

2000-08-22 Thread Markus Peter
ds of side effects. Such a feature is probably ok if it's optional for a method but not by default... -- Markus Peter - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: On the case for exception-based error handling.

2000-08-22 Thread Markus Peter
ample (for those who could still not see any sense in my words ;-): use no fatal; bla; bla; # should any of the above code throw an exception it gets ignored try { # from this point on i handle exceptions - use fatal is implied foo; } catch ...; # handle exception bar; ... bar; # exception

RE: On the case for exception-based error handling.

2000-08-22 Thread Markus Peter
talking about? 2) It's still fatal even if the program used 'no fatal' at the beginning of the program, but outside the try block? -- Markus Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PROTOPROPOSAL FOR NEW BACKSLASH was Re: implied pascal-likewith or express

2000-08-21 Thread Markus Peter
... ) -- Markus Peter - SPiN GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]