On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 20:12:18 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ask Bjoern
Hansen) wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Nathan Torkington wrote:
>
> > Ask is creating a separate list for CVS commit messages.
>
> send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to subscribe.
Will that list be mirrored via NNTP (read-only,
On Sun, 07 Apr 2002 15:52:53 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (_brian_d_foy)
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> ==perlfaq2.pod
> ftp://cpan.if.usp.br/pub/mirror/CPAN/
> ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/plan/perl/CPAN/
> ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/perl/CPAN/
Isn't mirror.aarnet.edu.au only accessible from
On Mon, 13 May 2002 22:01:54 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nicholas Clark)
wrote:
> On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:54:48AM -0500, _brian_d_foy wrote:
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> > Joe Schaefer points out that values() now works in this case.
>
> As of 5.6.
[...]
> Otherwise people reading a current copy of the FAQ but program
On Tue, 21 May 2002 23:11:54 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (_brian_d_foy)
wrote:
> -Or using the traditional idiom:
> +Some idioms can handle this is a single statement:
*in* a single statement
> +Some modules offer object-oriented access to handles and their
> +variables, although they may be overk
On Fri, 24 May 2002 12:26:03 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (_brian_d_foy)
wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Philip Newton
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > +If you want to create many anonymous handles, you should
> > > +check out the Symbol, FileHand
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 22:56:37 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (_brian_d_foy)
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> + require v5.6; # our() did not exist before that
Shouldn't one use "require 5.006;" instead?
After all, "v5.6" syntax is going to do something weird on older Perls
-- and if you don't care about that, then you
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:09:13 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (_brian_d_foy)
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> + use Date::Calc qw(Today Add_Delta_Days);
> +
> + my @date = Add_Delta_Days( Today(), -1 );
> +
> + print "@date\n";
Hm, should we be teaching "@variable" in a FAQ? Maybe I'm paranoid, but
I have the
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 12:17:55 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (_brian_d_foy)
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> +If you want a list of all of the Perl module filenames, you
> +can use File::Find::Rule.
> +
> + use File::Find::Rule;
> +
> + my @files = File::Find::Rule->file()->name( '*.pm' )->in( @INC );
Why not give
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 02:56:42 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (_brian_d_foy)
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> * How can I call my system's unique C functions from Perl?
>+ mentioned specific modules, Win32::API and Mac::Carbon. if
>anyone knows of other modules i should mention, please let
>me know.
Inline::C?
Thou