Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-25 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Monday 23 July 2001 14:05, Dave Storrs wrote: No, I do not mean something like Devel::DProf; that is a module. I mean something that is in the core binary, the same way that the perl debugger is in the core binary. Except that the perl debugger is not in the perl binary. There

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-24 Thread Bart Lateur
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 14:47:43 -0700 (PDT), Dave Storrs wrote: I discovered today that I had forgotten to put 'use strict' at the top of one of my modules...it was in the script that _used_ the module, but not in the module itself. Putting it in instantly caught several annoying bugs that I'd

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-24 Thread Steve Fink
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:47:43PM -0700, Dave Storrs wrote: I discovered today that I had forgotten to put 'use strict' at the top of one of my modules...it was in the script that _used_ the module, but not in the module itself. Putting it in instantly caught

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-23 Thread Dave Storrs
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Dan Brian wrote: The debugger API PDD that I submitted a couple of days ago suggested that we incorporate a profiler into the core. What do people think of this idea? I think that with a clean API, many third-party profilers could and would be created. I am

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-23 Thread Dave Storrs
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:47:43PM -0700, Dave Storrs wrote: It would be nice if there was a use strict 'recursive'; option that you could set in a script or module (package, whatever) which would force all the modules it used

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-23 Thread Uri Guttman
DS == Dave Storrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DS A good point. There should definitely be a clean API so that DS other people can develop their own profilers which could then be DS plugged in. This still leaves the question though...should core DS provide a default profiler? it

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-23 Thread Dave Storrs
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Johan Vromans wrote: Dave Storrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I discovered today that I had forgotten to put 'use strict' at the top of one of my modules...it was in the script that _used_ the module, but not in the module itself. Putting it in instantly caught

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-23 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 10:56:41AM -0700, Dave Storrs wrote: A good point. There should definitely be a clean API so that other people can develop their own profilers which could then be plugged in. This still leaves the question though...should core provide a default profiler? What

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-23 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 02:47 PM 7/21/2001 -0700, Dave Storrs wrote: Second topic: The debugger API PDD that I submitted a couple of days ago suggested that we incorporate a profiler into the core. What do people think of this idea? A simple version will probably be included--I expect to hack one together for my

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-22 Thread Uri Guttman
DS == Dave Storrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DS Second topic: DS The debugger API PDD that I submitted a couple of days ago suggested that DS we incorporate a profiler into the core. What do people think of this DS idea? only if it can be shut off with no penalty. that may mean a

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-22 Thread Johan Vromans
Dave Storrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I discovered today that I had forgotten to put 'use strict' at the top of one of my modules...it was in the script that _used_ the module, but not in the module itself. Putting it in instantly caught several annoying bugs that I'd been trying to track

as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-21 Thread Dave Storrs
First topic: I discovered today that I had forgotten to put 'use strict' at the top of one of my modules...it was in the script that _used_ the module, but not in the module itself. Putting it in instantly caught several annoying bugs that I'd been trying to track down. It would be nice if

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-21 Thread Dan Brian
The debugger API PDD that I submitted a couple of days ago suggested that we incorporate a profiler into the core. What do people think of this idea? I think that with a clean API, many third-party profilers could and would be created. I am skeptical of the value of putting it in the core,

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-21 Thread schwern
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:47:43PM -0700, Dave Storrs wrote: I discovered today that I had forgotten to put 'use strict' at the top of one of my modules...it was in the script that _used_ the module, but not in the module itself. Putting it in instantly caught several annoying bugs that I'd