2003-08-18T13:52:50 K Stol:
> After reading most of the messages on timely destruction, I still
> don't quite understand what it is. If someone has a spare minute
> free, could you please explain?
The other explanations certainly have formality to commend them, but
somehow they didn't make clear t
Is the destruction going to be timely enough for
IO::File->new(">foo")->print("foo\n");
print `cat foo`;
to behave predictably?
-Bennett
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2000-07-24-10:17:54 Dan Sugalski:
> Perl 6 will most *definitely* be an embedded perl. Easy and clean
> embedding is one of my primary goals. A small core with extended
> functionality provided by non-core things is a secondary one. (And
> one very much dependent on the
2000-08-02-19:43:57 Simon Cozens:
> Ref counting isn't garbage collection.
Ref counting is fine garbage collection.
> http://www.jwz.org/doc/gc.html
If perl6 were to want to try and rise to the level of jwz's design
aesthetics, I'd say we oughta save ourselves a lot of work and
abandon it now.
Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Keywords that *cannot* be overridden are chop, defined, delete, do,
> dump, each , else, elsif, eval, exists, for, foreach, format, glob,
> goto, grep, if, keys, last, local, m, map, my, next, no, package,
> pop, pos, print, printf, prototype, push, q
2000-09-11-16:23:20 Dan Sugalski:
> At 03:16 PM 9/11/00 -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> >On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:12:44PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > > INN has been embedding Perl for years, quite successfully.
> >
> >There's embedding and there's embedding. Embedding in an UNIX server
> >
2000-09-13-03:29:16 Hildo Biersma:
> Some would argue that a better design is required. Apache 2.0 will
> use a mixed thread/process model, and mod_perl 2.0 will run
> selected threads within one process, precisely to alleviate these
> problems. So it's not necessarily perl's fault...
Some would
2000-09-13-13:56:07 John van V:
> 2000-09-12-20:35:32 Bennett Todd:
> > The exact same design targets --- really really fast, teensy
> > memory footprint --- that define the microcontroller embedded
> > market, also define the entry to these roles on the biggest
> >
2000-09-26-08:10:54 Webmaster:
> Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote:
> >Perl 6 needs some kind of internationalisation and therefore message
> >catalogue support. Really needs, with great urgency.
>
> Doesn't RFC 85 address this to some extent? By offering up 'error codes'
> can't the programme
2000-11-02-17:30:56 Nathan Torkington:
> Here are the things to order, in my order:
>
> Robustness
> Portability
> Maintainability
> Testability
> Reusability
> Speed
> Simplicity
> Size
A couple of negligible wibbles to toss in: would it make sense to
separate "Simplicity" into
2000-12-05-13:02:56 Nathan Torkington:
> I say that the person who *does* the work deserves the right to
> choose what format it is in. So long as we can make navigable
> webpages out of it, that person can write on a Commodore 64 for
> all I care.
Would you accept a restatement of: as long as wh
2001-01-03-21:43:39 Dan Sugalski:
> I think one of the things we might want to do is figure out what people use
> signals for [...] The big one I can think of is interrupting
> timers. [...] (Excepting I/O signalish things, which will get
> handled elsewhere)
How about, goosing long-lived daemon
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