Re: Removing/fixing $[line noise here] variables

2000-08-02 Thread John Porter
Brust, Corwin wrote: messages.rfc - An RFC to discussing the wisdom of allowing run time error and warning messages to be modified at run time ... I want perl's error (and warning) messages to be specific to each program I write. Isn't this covered by locales? -- John Porter

Re: Removing/fixing $[line noise here] variables

2000-08-02 Thread Steve Simmons
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 03:34:56PM -0400, John Porter wrote: Brust, Corwin wrote: I want perl's error (and warning) messages to be specific to each program I write. Isn't this covered by locales? Completely different beast. I don't claim to fully understand locales, but that's not

Re: Removing/fixing $[line noise here] variables

2000-08-02 Thread Simon Cozens
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 01:48:36PM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote: Isn't this covered by locales? Unicode and locales are immiscible. In Perl 5. This is *by no means* a general statement. ICU is, for instance, a Unicode locale library. -- Gosh that takes me back... or is it forward? That's

Re: Removing/fixing $[line noise here] variables

2000-08-02 Thread Larry Wall
Steve Simmons writes: : On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 04:47:47PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: : : Put together an RFC for it. (Soon!) This is a language topic, but it will : impact internals a touch, and I'd like to get as many of the "impact : internals" things spec'd out as soon as possible . . .

RE: Removing/fixing $[line noise here] variables

2000-08-01 Thread Dan Sugalski
5 threads...) -Original Message- From: Steve Simmons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 3:37 PM To: Perl6 Language Changes Subject: Removing/fixing $[line noise here] variables For deprecation, we should have a %PERL_DEPRECATED{mod}{thing} hash as well. `mod' is `CORE'

Re: Removing/fixing $[line noise here] variables

2000-08-01 Thread Alan Burlison
Steve Simmons wrote: I'd prefer that we break these vars out into a set of hashes with appropriate names: $PERL_CORE{warnings} vs $^W $PERL_CORE{version} vs $^V $PERL_FORMATS{name} vs $^ $PERL_FORMATS{lines_left} vs $- Hmm - I