Re: Cross-referencing RFC 186 with RFC 183 and RFC 79

2000-09-13 Thread Glenn Linderman
Michael G Schwern wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:21:25PM -0700, Glenn Linderman wrote: > (3) > > obtain one or more data handles for test input data and validation data, (4) > > compile 1&2 as perl source code, and (5) launch the tests, which can then > > used the appropriate data handles. >

Re: Cross-referencing RFC 186 with RFC 183 and RFC 79

2000-09-13 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:21:25PM -0700, Glenn Linderman wrote: > This RFC also seems to be related to RFC 183... using POD for testing. Now > the model of use apparently envisioned for RFC 183 is to have the tests > inside the POD, and then use a preprocessor to hack them out and put them in >

Cross-referencing RFC 186 with RFC 183 and RFC 79

2000-09-13 Thread Glenn Linderman
RFC 186 is another interesting -io RFC, even though I'm not on the -io list. I couldn't find any discussion in the mail archive, so here's some to start it. Please copy me on the discussion. Sorry for cross posting, but this is attempting to unify RFCs from different lists; I've bcc'd two of th

Cross-referencing RFC 186 with RFC 183 and RFC 79

2000-09-13 Thread Glenn Linderman
RFC 186 is another interesting -io RFC, even though I'm not on the -io list. I couldn't find any discussion in the mail archive, so here's some to start it. Please copy me on the discussion. Sorry for cross posting, but this is attempting to unify RFCs from different lists; I've bcc'd two of th

Re: RFC 181 (v1) Formats out of core / New format syntax

2000-09-13 Thread Glenn Linderman
I'm not on -io, so copy me on discussion. But this RFC was intriguing, so I read the discussion on the archive for it, and have the following comments. Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote: >format FILE = > @<: @ > $name, $ssn > . > =head2 New Syntax > > Under the new syntax, a f

RFC 129 (v2) Replace default filehandle/select with $DEFOUT, $DEFERR, $DEFIN

2000-09-13 Thread Perl6 RFC Librarian
This and other RFCs are available on the web at http://dev.perl.org/rfc/ =head1 TITLE Replace default filehandle/select with $DEFOUT, $DEFERR, $DEFIN =head1 VERSION Maintainer: Nathan Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 17 Aug 2000 Last-Modified: 13 Sep 2000 Mailing List: [EMAIL PROT

Re: RFC 101 (v2) Handlers and Pseudo-classes

2000-09-13 Thread Nathan Wiger
[added -io cross-post] John Porter wrote: > > Just MHO, but I don't think this is the kind of thing that should > go in the core. Just MHO. I think I agree. Just to clarify, the only reason it's an RFC and not just a Perl 5 module is because RFC 14 (the one on a new open()) relies on a handler