Re: Current Issues with perlipc.pod - should they be fixed?

2010-12-06 Thread demerphq
On 5 December 2010 07:54, Naveed Massjouni wrote: > This thread is really depressing.  Personally, I like all of Shlomi's > suggestions.  I can't fathom why bareword global filehandles are still > pervasive in the perl docs.  But instead of the community getting to > discuss the merits of the chan

Re: Current Issues with perlipc.pod - should they be fixed?

2010-12-06 Thread Abigail
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 07:34:35PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Now I think that some of my style/best-practices suggestions are an > improvement and I'd like to pursue them. And I'm strongly against that sentiment. I really do think p5p, and hence the documentation, should *not* have a style

Re: Current Issues with perlipc.pod - should they be fixed?

2010-12-06 Thread Tom Christiansen
> The way I see it what happened was that I wrote an email with aspects of > perlipc.pod that I found lacking, and not idiomatic up to recent best > practices, thcrist replying that he doesn't like any of the changes and > VETOing them (without saying why the status quo was better, just by givin

Re: Current Issues with perlipc.pod - should they be fixed?

2010-12-06 Thread demerphq
On 6 December 2010 19:25, Tom Christiansen wrote: > This witch-hunt is counter-productive and harmful.  You should not > be offended, or even surprised, if its results are not agreed to. Tom, using terms like "witch-hunt" is not fair - it implies there is malice intent on Shlomi's behalf which I

Re: Current Issues with perlipc.pod - should they be fixed?

2010-12-06 Thread demerphq
On 6 December 2010 19:01, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Yves, > > On Monday 06 December 2010 10:42:23 demerphq wrote: >> On 5 December 2010 07:54, Naveed Massjouni wrote: >> > This thread is really depressing.  Personally, I like all of Shlomi's >> > suggestions.  I can't fathom why bareword global fil

Re: Current Issues with perlipc.pod - should they be fixed?

2010-12-06 Thread Abigail
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 08:45:01PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Monday 06 December 2010 19:49:44 Abigail wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 07:34:35PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > Now I think that some of my style/best-practices suggestions are an > > > improvement and I'd like to pursue them.