> ""Chas" == "Chas Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
"Chas> On 10/15/07, Michael Barto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> As both Java and Javascript both have a 'true' and 'false' or Boolean data
>> type, is
>> there any interest in evolution of Perl to have a true Boolean. Or what is
>> the
>>
On Oct 16, 2007, at 3:56 AM, David Cantrell wrote:
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 11:32:09AM -0700, Edward Moy wrote:
So software updates are restricted to keep the size down.
Because most users do not use the command-line or develop software,
updates to command-line programs never make the cut
At 15:29 +0100 10/16/07, David Cantrell wrote:
>The one I'm most looking forward to is perl being relocatable. Current
>versions of perl have the values for @INC hard-coded into the binary at
>compile-time.
You can add to @INC in perl 5 by defining an environment variable PERL5LIB..
If you defin
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 01:27:26PM -0700, Michael Barto wrote:
> As both Java and Javascript both have a 'true' and 'false' or Boolean
> data type, is there any interest in evolution of Perl to have a true
> Boolean. Or what is the preferred method to do this in Perl.
The place to discuss this
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 05:28:48PM +0200, Johan Meskens CS3 jmcs3 wrote:
> > I *wish* it was 5.10 as that has some
> > very nice features that I am excited about.
> like what for example ?
The one I'm most looking forward to is perl being relocatable. Current
versions of perl have the values for
On 平成 19/10/16, at 19:56, David Cantrell wrote:
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 11:32:09AM -0700, Edward Moy wrote:
So software updates are restricted to keep the size down.
Because most users do not use the command-line or develop software,
updates to command-line programs never make the cut
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 11:32:09AM -0700, Edward Moy wrote:
>So software updates are restricted to keep the size down.
> Because most users do not use the command-line or develop software,
> updates to command-line programs never make the cut (developer
> software has it own update
On 10/15/07, Doug McNutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 18:20 -0700 10/15/07, Michael Barto wrote:
> >I think in the more newer languages, they have implemented true booleans.
> >Perl
> >is kind of old school.
>
> use constant TRUE => 1;
> use constant FALSE => 0;
>
> Is a complete solution in pe
On 10/15/07, Michael Barto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I think in the more newer languages, they have implemented true booleans.
> Perl is kind of old school. Pascal defines them as a grandfather of
> languages.
> Therefore as one migrates the languages to a higher levels (e.g. Perl[n]),
>
