At 09:45 AM 4/11/01 +1000, Greg Boug wrote:
>Hrmm... It'd have interesting repercussions for CPAN... :-)
>
>How about doing something like:
>
>use lib "CPAN::HTML::Module";
>
>which goes and grabs the module in question from CPAN for
>use. Picking, the closest mirror, of course.
>
>Would be inter
> > While I don't know if Larry will mandate it, I would like this code:
> >open PAGE, "http://www.perl.org";
> >while () {
> > print $_;
> >}
> > to dump the HTML for the main page of www.perl.org to get
> dumped to stdout.
>
> Well, this seems innocent enough, but how far
> Of course all of this has been discussed. (See
> http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-language-io%40perl.org/,
> especially RFCs 100 and 14.)
And is already available in a nearby parallel dimension:
http://www.yetanother.org/damian/Perl5+i/open.html
;-)
Damian
At 12:36 PM 4/10/2001 -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:28:29AM -0400, John Porter wrote:
> > Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > > > if (-M "http://www.perl.com/" < -M "http://www.python.org/") {...}
> > >
> > > Nope. Doesn't work with other magic filenames, why should it with thes
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:28:29AM -0400, John Porter wrote:
> Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > > if (-M "http://www.perl.com/" < -M "http://www.python.org/") {...}
> >
> > Nope. Doesn't work with other magic filenames, why should it with these?
>
> Because Perl6 will be better than Perl5.
> I wouldn't
Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > if (-M "http://www.perl.com/" < -M "http://www.python.org/") {...}
>
> Nope. Doesn't work with other magic filenames, why should it with these?
Because Perl6 will be better than Perl5.
I wouldn't mind (in fact I would expect) to see the magic power
level increase conside
At 09:56 AM 4/10/2001 +1000, Greg Boug wrote:
> > >*knock knock* Hello? Abstraction? Are you there
> > Don't forget that human language expresses concrete things as
> > much or more than it does abstract things. Perl is at least
> > partially a human language.
>
>True... But the ability to say
At 04:23 AM 4/10/2001 -0400, Philip Newton wrote:
>I once created, on a Unix box, a directory named 'http:' and inside it, a
>file named www.datenrevision.de. This enabled me to open
>'http://www.datenrevision.de' and read from it (since multiple
>consecutive slashes are generally treated as one s
At 05:14 PM 4/9/2001 -0700, jc vazquez wrote:
>From: "Dan Sugalski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > While I don't know if Larry will mandate it, I would like this code:
> >
> >open PAGE, "http://www.perl.org";
> >while () {
> > print $_;
> >}
> >
> > to dump the HTML for the main page
At 01:46 PM 4/10/2001 +0200, Trond Michelsen wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 10:03:31AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > While I don't know if Larry will mandate it, I would like this code:
> >open PAGE, "http://www.perl.org";
> >while () {
> > print $_;
> >}
> > to dump the HTM
Trond Michelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 10:03:31AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > While I don't know if Larry will mandate it, I would like this code:
> >open PAGE, "http://www.perl.org";
> >while () {
> > print $_;
> >}
> > to dump the HTML for
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 10:03:31AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> While I don't know if Larry will mandate it, I would like this code:
>open PAGE, "http://www.perl.org";
>while () {
> print $_;
>}
> to dump the HTML for the main page of www.perl.org to get dumped to stdout.
Wel
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> While I don't know if Larry will mandate it, I would like this code:
>
>open PAGE, "http://www.perl.org";
>while () {
> print $_;
>}
>
> to dump the HTML for the main page of www.perl.org to get dumped to stdout.
I once created, on
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