Syntax checks in perl (was: Re: maint.mk syntax check problems)

2011-09-15 Thread Martin von Gagern
On 15.09.2011 11:37, Jim Meyering wrote: I'm sure that a perl-based implementation would be far more efficient, and probably faster even if the perl implementation doesn't run its tests in parallel. Perl is well suited to this task. I'm sure some will object to Perl's syntax, but not I.

Re: Syntax checks in perl (was: Re: maint.mk syntax check problems)

2011-09-15 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Martin. On Thursday 15 September 2011, Martin von wrote: On 15.09.2011 11:37, Jim Meyering wrote: I'm sure that a perl-based implementation would be far more efficient, and probably faster even if the perl implementation doesn't run its tests in parallel. Perl is well suited to