alex.hartmaier

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• Commented on On OP_SIGNATURE
  Reini, please get over it! If you don't like the decisions p5p makes you have to argue with them on IRC and the mailing list. If you like a typed language turn towards Perl 6 which will be the future...
• Commented on Urging users with good test suites to test-drive latest DBIx::Class trial
  I can run our tests next week when I'm back from vacation if you want to delay the release until then....
• Commented on Statistics for perl hash tables
  Thanks Reini for being our low level optimization and security guy! Don't let anyone get you off track!...
• Commented on Tech Tip: Opening a file for read/write without clobbering it.
  Please check out the new perlopentut that is already included in the current 5.19.7 development release....
• Commented on Introducing WWW::Pusher
  Too bad that the Perl module isn't listed and linked on their site ;-(...

Comment Threads

• Matt S Trout (mst) commented on Statistics for perl hash tables

  "What is not good is that the developers have no idea how to evaluate hash tables and there is no sane discussion possible in the mailinglist"

  Asserting that nobody except you is competent to have an opinion does, indeed, largely ensure that no sane discussion is possible. Occam's Razor suggests that the problem does not, however, lie with the mailing list.

  About fifteen years ago, I re-engineered significant chunks of my visible personality and interaction patterns with other people in order to put me in situations where I had to improve my social and communication skills.…

• Reini Urban commented on Statistics for perl hash tables

  mst: It is a sad thing to tell that, and it would have been better to avoid these allegations, but other people need to work with perl5 also, so they need to be told how the state of the onion is and what to expect. Most people left p5p already. I haven't tried communicating with p5p recently, but my impressions only got worse when I tried it to explain it on the #p5p channel.

  The best thing I can do is to write blog posts, explaining the problems, and create reproducable code and testcases, in the end patches, and maybe the relevant devs will look up unknown concepts in wikipedia an…

• gortan commented on Urging users with good test suites to test-drive latest DBIx::Class trial

  Our testsuite runs fine with 0.082700_06!

• preaction commented on On OP_SIGNATURE

  You bring up good technical points, as always, but, as always, they are couched in insults and ad hominem attacks.

  Since it is not possible to write p5p criticism to the mailing list, I'll have to do it in my blog.

  Your technical criticisms have never been the issue. This has:

  p5p still has no idea what they are doing

  That paragraph, though it accurately expresses your frustration, adds no value to your argument. Indeed, it diminishes your argument by making you appear as a malcontent with an axe to grind (which is already p…

• Reini Urban commented on On OP_SIGNATURE

  Having now implemented all my plans with the old slow signatures, I have to take back some of the criticsm above.

  OP_SIGNATURE is in fact a really good idea.
  I'm still not too keen about the separation of "Too many|few arguments for subroutine" instead of just a "Wrong number of arguments for subroutine $name" which I implemented is now moot, as those strings reside in libperl, and are not compiled as perl data anymore. And there's still another part which checks arity with these error messages. So you have to be consistent.

  My other critic of copying @_ twice is also w…