RE: :, ::, :::, and :::: in P6REs
Is that the soon to be released E5? No, that's the to be released today E5. ;-) Yy!!
RE: Warnings, strict, and CPAN (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope for subs)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ... The basic usefulness of warnings is not in question. This is about the *perception* of their utility. Warnings are only useful if the user heeds them. The question is, will having them on by default make the user more or less likely to respond? There was also eariler discussion that this might encourage people to cover up large sections of lousy code with a Cno warnings thus further burying potential errors and actually worsening the situation. Some ideas were kicked around to have a way to globally override Cno warnings... This is what the -W command-line flag does. but it seems like we're right back to having to remember -w again. Paul _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: RFC 264 (v1) Provide a standard module to simplify the creation of source filters
From: Damian Conway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ... No. That's my point. I want to match BANG followed by maximal whitespace followed by another BANG. But a line-by-line filter fails dismally if that maximal whitespace contains a newline. Admittedly this particular example is contrived for effect, but I have now used your excellent module in numerous projects when constructs *can* cross newline boundaries and it's always painful to do (hence the new module). In fact, I would claim that filtering constructs across newline boundaries is the *norm*, since newlines are just whitespace most places in Perl. Aaah! I see where you are coming from now. Is that mentioned in the RFC and module docs? If not, it really needs to be emphasised. It completely passed me by. If you like, next time I do a Filters release, I'll update my documentation to mention your module. Paul _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: Proposed enhancement to the warnings pragma for Module writers
From: Simon Cozens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:36:48PM -0400, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:04:41PM +0100, Paul Marquess wrote:
I'm cc-ing this to p6 because there doesn't seem to be anyone left on
p5p.
Then who is generating all this traffic on p5p? :D
I'm certainly still there, as you can tell from everyone correcting my
patches. :)
Sorry guys, forgot the smiley.
warnings::warnif($category, "message") ;
instead of this:
if (warnings::enabled($category))
{ warnings::warn($category, "message") }
Any reason why that isn't the behavior of warnings::warn()?
Because there are occasions when you want to force a mandatory warning.
Correct.
Paul
