Adam Turoff wrote:
>
> And it'll take a decent amount of time to build up a reasonably large
> set of discrete benchmarks.
Seems like the perl5 test scripts might be a good place to start.
- Barrie
Barrie Slaymaker writes:
> > And it'll take a decent amount of time to build up a reasonably large
> > set of discrete benchmarks.
>
> Seems like the perl5 test scripts might be a good place to start.
I'd rather see someone write a program that involves file reading
and writing, regular expressi
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 06:56:36PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> I'd rather see someone write a program that involves file reading
> and writing, regular expression manipulation, some string tweaking
> (length, concatenation, etc), and some object method calls. That
> covers the spectrum of T
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 02:27:07AM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 12:46:55AM -0500, J. David Blackstone wrote:
> > http://dev.perl.org/pm/pos.html mentions the following risk in perl6
> > development:
> >
> > > 4.We produce a slower interpreter.
> >
> > It is
Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 04:15:24PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> > my Dog $spot;
> > print defined($spot) ? 'defined' : 'undefined'; # undefined
> > print $spot->isa('Dog') ? 'Dog' : 'not dog';# Dog;
>
> That sounds unrelated to this
Bart Lateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, 8 Sep 2000 13:59:52 -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>
> >Consider:
> >
> >my Dog $spot = Cat->new;
> >print $spot->isa('Dog') ? 'Dog' : 'not dog';
> >
> >Currently, $spot is not a dog. It should probably remain that way.
>
> My gut feel
