On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 18:30:29 -0800, Vicki Brown wrote:
>We are in the process of moving the mailing lists to perl.org.
Is that why the new messages (like the Disgest::MD5 module announcement)
don't have the "[MacPerl]" string in the subject?
--
Bart.
Can someone please explain why 2^12 is seen so often as the chunk size in perl
scripts? Is there some UNIX reason for this number that really doesn't figure in the
Mac environment? I find it more useful to read as large a chunk as the memory will
sensibly allow. Do I lose anything by reading
It USED to be the default block size for storage devices dating all
the way back
to when mainframes were the only thing around. It is also mostly a
page size for
a vast majority of vitual memory computing environments. Crossing a
page boundary
was sometimes a painful thing to do, especially whe
fails:
my $GameType = param('mapstyle') or $default_mapstyle;
works:
my $GameType = param('mapstyle') || $default_mapstyle;
Am I mistaken in assuming that "I should use 'or' because this is 'string
values'" or does this happen "simply because the possibility of returning
undef exists in the e
On 1/16/01 22:49, Scott R. Godin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> fails:
> my $GameType = param('mapstyle') or $default_mapstyle;
>
> works:
> my $GameType = param('mapstyle') || $default_mapstyle;
According to perlop:
[ ... ]
left||
[ ... ]
right = += -= *= etc.
