Re: Perl commandments

2001-01-09 Thread Piers Cawley
Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:25:18AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: 6.) regular expressions are not the only way to code, length and substr

Re: Perl commandments

2001-01-09 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:25:18AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: 6.) regular expressions are not the only

Re: Perl commandments

2001-01-09 Thread Leon Brocard
Greg McCarroll sent the following bits through the ether: in my original rule it was all to do with good programming style, not eeking out every bit of performance, my reply was actually that i thought dave choose a very grey area in terms of programming style Indeed. And someone mentioned

RE: Much Coolness XML Wise.

2001-01-09 Thread Jonathan Peterson
How does the output compare to XML::Simple::XMLout() ? I found XML::Simple::XMLout() to be deeply yucky, as it kind of randomly chooses to go for sub elements or attributes based on phases of the moon*. Also, it will happily output invalid XML if you have invalid data in your datastructure.

Re: Perl commandments

2001-01-09 Thread Piers Cawley
Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greg McCarroll sent the following bits through the ether: in my original rule it was all to do with good programming style, not eeking out every bit of performance, my reply was actually that i thought dave choose a very grey area in terms of

Re: Perl 6

2001-01-09 Thread Piers Cawley
Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Cantrell writes: From what I can tell, there ain't a lot happening. As Piers said, we are blocked on Larry. We're working on some interpreter design now, but some language issues really need to be nailed down before we know what we're

Re: Perl commandments

2001-01-09 Thread Leon Brocard
Piers Cawley sent the following bits through the ether: This time. The discussion has been back and forth on various lists, usually with benchmarks. Thou shalt optimise for programmer time unless absolutely necessary, when thou shalt Benchmark and quoth both the benchmark and the results.

Re: Perl 6

2001-01-09 Thread Andy Wardley
On Jan 9, 8:24am, Nathan Torkington wrote: As Piers said, we are blocked on Larry. We're working on some interpreter design now, but some language issues really need to be nailed down before we know what we're going to be writing. Are there any plans to keep the RFC process going in the

Re: Hiring

2001-01-09 Thread David Hodgkinson
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Re: Perl 6

2001-01-09 Thread Nathan Torkington
Piers Cawley writes: As Piers said, we are blocked on Larry. We're working on some interpreter design now, but some language issues really need to be nailed down before we know what we're going to be writing. Any idea how long we're going to stay blocked? None whatsoever. Many phone

Re: Hiring

2001-01-09 Thread Simon Wistow
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Re: Hiring

2001-01-09 Thread Steve Mynott
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Re: Perl 6

2001-01-09 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Nathan Torkington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: We're going to use RFCs for future additions to Perl, we just need to find some good filters that will prevent them from consuming everyone's time. how about adding a field on the RFC template such as, ``forum initially discussed in'' - then