Is this (these) thread(s) to the point where it is worth spinning off a new
sublist? If a couple of the main contributors (Dan, Simon, Branden, etc)
say yes, can we get perl6-internals-gc created?
-spp
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and "raptor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] whispered:
| ok,
|
| "I've done it in one row, why you want it to fit in 80 columns ?!" (or
| something like that can't remember well)
"You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns? :-)"
-lwall
-spp
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Tom Christiansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
m whispered:
| Very well, then: I'll save it for an after-the-fact I-TOLD-YOU-SO,
| which, believe it or not, is truly *not* a pleasant thing to be
| able to say.
Tom, we appreciate your constructive comments and your help
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Nick Ing-Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED]
whispered:
| I think this is inappropriate for sin/cos/tan et. al. and possibly even
| sockets (although Win32 sockets are weird enough that it would be worthwhile)
|
| But for getpw* or shm/queue/msg or other
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] whispered:
| or we can all darned well fake it at the very least.
Dan, Larry, and the rest of the members of perl6-internals:
I apologize for my behaviour the other evening. It was childish and served
no purpose on this
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Steve Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
whispered:
| Depends on your definition of "module". Many people seem to be assuming
| "module" eq "shared library".
Yes, exactly. I use module as a generic term for something other than the
main perl binary itself, a black
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Tom Christiansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
m whispered:
| Unless that's done completely transparently, you'll pretty much screw the
| pooch as far as "Perl is the Cliff Notes of Unix" notion. Not to
| mention running a very strong risk of butchering the
that might call anything from the C library.
Ok, here's my new RFC. This should handle all of Tom's objections:
=head1 TITLE
Perl is Tom's private domain.
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Stephen P. Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 8/25/2000
Version: 1
Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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