Re: Permanent sublists (was Re: Language WG report, August 16th 2000)

2000-08-17 Thread skud
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 10:35:09AM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote: I agree. I think the trend should be to establish some permanent sublists, which we're informally leaning towards already. Something like: -io = ALL I/O issues, like open/socket/filehandles -subs = ALL sub/method/func

Re: Permanent sublists (was Re: Language WG report, August 16th 2000)

2000-08-17 Thread Peter Scott
At 04:12 PM 8/17/00 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 10:35:09AM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote: I agree. I think the trend should be to establish some permanent sublists, which we're informally leaning towards already. Something like: -io = ALL I/O issues, like

Re: Permanent sublists (was Re: Language WG report, August 16th 2000)

2000-08-17 Thread skud
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 11:15:40PM -0700, Peter Scott wrote: Sorry I didn't chime in earlier, but I would like to say that I prefer published deadlines. Reason: people will talk for as long as you give 'em. However long a meeting is scheduled for, that's how long it will take. We're

Re: Permanent sublists (was Re: Language WG report, August 16th 2000)

2000-08-17 Thread skud
-io = ALL I/O issues, like open/socket/filehandles -subs = ALL sub/method/func issues, like lvalue subs -strict = ALL lexical/global variable scoping issues -objects = ALL OO and module issues -flow = ALL flow/threading issues -errors = ALL error

Language WG report, August 16th 2000

2000-08-16 Thread skud
OK, weekly report. Ugh. The language group has generated the vast majority of the 100+ RFCs in existence, and is suffering under the deluge of 100-200 posts a day. I would prefer this to be down around 50, but no luck yet :-/ Part of the problem seems to be timezone related... the lag time

Re: Language WG report, August 16th 2000

2000-08-16 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The language group has generated the vast majority of the 100+ RFCs in existence, and is suffering under the deluge of 100-200 posts a day. I would prefer this to be down around 50, but no luck yet :-/ Part of the problem seems to be timezone

Permanent sublists (was Re: Language WG report, August 16th 2000)

2000-08-16 Thread Nathan Wiger
"Bryan C. Warnock" wrote: ... is the cause for this. All the discussion is taking place in the master list before the sublists are spawned. You can only express the opinion that foo is not bar and never should be so many times. I agree. I think the trend should be to establish some

Re: Permanent sublists (was Re: Language WG report, August 16th 2000)

2000-08-16 Thread Uri Guttman
"NW" == Nathan Wiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NW I agree. I think the trend should be to establish some permanent NW sublists, which we're informally leaning towards already. Something NW like: NW-io = ALL I/O issues, like open/socket/filehandles NW-subs = ALL

Re: Permanent sublists (was Re: Language WG report, August 16th 2000)

2000-08-16 Thread Nathan Wiger
i see problems with overlapping areas. I/O callbacks fall under both io and flow IMO. some of the error handling like dying deep in eval and $SIG{DIE} also fall under error and flow. True. But it should be up to the RFC author to choose the relevant list. I think RFC authors have been pretty

Re: Permanent sublists (was Re: Language WG report, August 16th 2000)

2000-08-16 Thread Steve Simmons
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 02:38:33PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: i see problems with overlapping areas. I/O callbacks fall under both io and flow IMO. some of the error handling like dying deep in eval and $SIG{DIE} also fall under error and flow. This is true, and inevitable. But IMHO it'd be