Steve Simmons wrote:
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 08:03:31PM -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
Perl should provide a mechanism to have common code autoloaded from a
file. . . .
A C/etc/perlrc file could be used to set system-wide defaults that
the system administrator would like to
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Many other programs have so called "resource configuration" files (at
least that's what I call them) that are loaded and interpretted upon
program startup. Some example programs that have this ability include
bash, mutt, and python. Perl should do the same.
A
At 08:03 PM 8/16/00 +, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
Perl should provide a mechanism to have common code autoloaded from a
file.
Please, no. It's the ultimate scary action-at-a-distance.
I spent several years doing X programming. Ever seen the flowchart for how
resources are resolved?
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 01:07:24PM -0700, Peter Scott wrote:
At 08:03 PM 8/16/00 +, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
Perl should provide a mechanism to have common code autoloaded from a
file.
Please, no. It's the ultimate scary action-at-a-distance.
If the programmer *wants*
Think on this:
use perlrc qw/Resource1 Resource5/; # Import only named 'Resources'
use perlrc qw/:all/;# Import all 'Resources'
This sounds much more managable than a .perlrc that get's applied globaly
without asking for it.
Bingo. This feature should be off by default
Today around 2:34pm, Nathan Wiger hammered out this masterpiece:
: Think on this:
:
: use perlrc qw/Resource1 Resource5/; # Import only named 'Resources'
:
: use perlrc qw/:all/;# Import all 'Resources'
:
: This sounds much more managable than a .perlrc that get's
Today around 7:17pm, Casey R. Tweten hammered out this masterpiece:
: Today around 2:34pm, Nathan Wiger hammered out this masterpiece:
:
: : Think on this:
: :
: : use perlrc qw/Resource1 Resource5/; # Import only named 'Resources'
: :
: : use perlrc qw/:all/;# Import all
This and other RFCs are available on the web at
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=head1 TITLE
Perl resource configuration
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Jonthan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 16 Aug 2000
Version: 1
Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Number: 114
=head1 ABSTRACT
Perl should
Today around 8:03pm, Perl6 RFC Librarian hammered out this masterpiece:
: This and other RFCs are available on the web at
: http://dev.perl.org/rfc/
:
: =head1 TITLE
:
: Perl resource configuration
:
: =head1 VERSION
:
: Maintainer: Jonthan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Date: 16 Aug
