On 19 Sep 2000 19:41:20 -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
>Perl should come distributed with more modules.
I know of people/sites where installing the whole lot of Perl just to
run a tiny script, is not acceptable as an option.
Not everyone is a developer.
--
Bart.
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 08:28:30 -0700 (PDT), Dave Storrs wrote:
> Personally, I like the way it works at the moment; all the subs
>that you want to memoize are up at the top, where they are easy to see.
You have a point.
What I don't like is how the basic module syntax pretty much requires
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On 15 Sep 2000 02:09:23 -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
>A version of Memoize.pm should be added into the Perl6 standard
>library, and it should be added as a pragmatic module (i.e. memoize.pm).
Is that it?
I would rather have a flag when generating the sub, er, what's that
syntax again, ":so
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 14:26:25 +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
>That is being considered. IF that does become part of the language I could
>see subs do something like
>
> if (defined $SELF) {
>called as a method
> }
> else {
>called as a sub
> }
That was my idea. The current unfixable bug I
On Wed, 09 Aug 2000 13:58:34 +0100, Hildo Biersma wrote:
>Yikes. Class method calls should perform inheritance, subroutine calls
>should not.
I agree with that.
>Altering the language to make the two look the same is a bad
>idea, because it breaks, fatally, as soon as the class supports more
>
On Wed, 09 Aug 2000 11:41:20 +0100, Hildo Biersma wrote:
>Could we agree on the idea that CGI.pm should be split up?
No. I could agree that
CGI->somemethod(@args);
would do exactly the same as
CGI::somemethod(@args);
i.e. no difference between function calls and class methods
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 14:22:20 -0500 , Garrett Goebel wrote:
>What's the conventional wisdom on creating a module that supports both an OO
>and non-OO interface? Are there any CORE or CPAN modules to serve as a
>textbook, or is the anwser "Don't do that"?
>
>I've got some code that checks the first
On Sun, 6 Aug 2000 01:13:22 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>* Variables are things are nouns. Give them noun names.
> $name, $total, $input
>* Plural variables should have plural names
> @employees, @items, %contact_details
Hmmm...
>* Hash names should be written so that looking up
