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Rafaël Garcia-Suarez

  • Commented on The removal of the lexical topic feature in 5.24
    mst: That was the intent of the _ prototype. However given the adoption rate of the lexical-topic feature, it's clear that was not a really wanted language addition......
  • Commented on What prevent warnings pragma become default feature?
    In short, warnings::register prevents it. In other words you aren't sure about the set of warnings that are going to be enabled implicitly. Let me add that warnings are often used to detected edge conditions in the program environment (input...
  • Commented on booking.com - a toxic company for developers
    There is in this post a part where the anonymous author personally targets me and questions the value of my work. I'll debunk the lies. No, I'm not active in hiring; no-one ever got an interview with me. I don't...
  • Commented on It’s the things we know that just ain’t so
    Indeed....
  • Commented on The Case of the Incompatible Safe -- Epilog
    Cool! (But you really should thank Paul Johnson instead:)...
  • Posted Rvalue references to Rafaël Garcia-Suarez

    From the C++11 FAQ, section on rvalue references, about a simple incrementation function incr:

    If that incr(0) were allowed either some temporary that nobody ever saw would be …

  • Commented on I was called "fucking asshole"
    I guessed the identity of the offender before looking at the ticket. His communication style is so peculiar that many people are actively avoiding to pull his modules in their dependency chain, in spite of their usually good technical value....
  • Posted Perl documentation word clouds to Rafaël Garcia-Suarez
    This is totally useless, but I've written a script to create word clouds from perl's core pod files. As an example, here's the word cloud from perlunifaq : perlunifaq.png="https://blogs.perl.org/user…
  • Commented on Truth about Booking.com
    Well, I work for Booking, the tables I work with have FK constraints, and I explicitly forbid people in my team to cut and paste code or going for other quick and dirty hacks that will hurt maintainability. On the...
  • Commented on Unicode and Passwords
    If your password comes from a browser, you have also the interesting problem to detect the encoding of the raw data you're receiving. For your specific purpose, I'd choose a normal form (NFC probably, so stuff like the Dutch ij...
  • Posted Why Dart is not the language of the future to Rafaël Garcia-Suarez
    So I've been looking at the Dart language specification recently published by Google (draft version 0.01). So far, I'm not really enthusiastic. Here's my reading notes.

    Class-based OO and Interfaces

    At first glance Dart code looks like Java (and nothing's wrong with that, I'm not going…
  • Commented on Expanding Your MetaCPAN Author Profile
    A few remarks to make it more awesome: 1. I can't find where to put my IRC nickname ? 2. What's the benefit of signing on with github ? It doesn't even add a github profile link. (Likewise for twitter)...
  • Commented on Failing your way to success with A/B Testing
    Yes but what we really really want to know is, did your wife A/B-test this orange thing on her head ?...
  • Commented on A Module::CoreList for vendor distributions
    Porting/corelist.pl might be a start to collect data for such a tool, if anyone wants to pick that up....
  • Commented on Perl101: Red to Green Gradient
    This is quite a naive way to calculate colour gradients, since linear interpolation in the RGB space will yield colours that are not "between" the two limits neither in hue or in intensity. IIRC it's possible to get better results...
  • Commented on Perl-based Massively Multiplayer Online Game
    Reading this entry's title, I thought you were referring to the CPAN :)...
  • Posted New Safe.pm fixes security hole to Rafaël Garcia-Suarez

    Safe.pm, originally released with perl 5.002, has been an experiment to bring compile-time safety to perl. It allows to compile a (usually user-provided) snippet of perl code and execute it, while forbidding a configurable list of operations -- for example, all perl built-ins that would require…

  • Commented on While on humor... best error msg in a while
    perl probably can't figure out either what went wrong, since that's the default warning message: $ perl -ewarn Warning: something's wrong at -e line 1....
  • Posted C, Perl, and cut and paste to Rafaël Garcia-Suarez
    On all released 5.10.* versions of Perl to date, the smart match operator can segfault if passed recursive data structures (like arrays that contain a reference to themselves). I fixed that. The fix…
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  • Reini Urban commented on The removal of the lexical topic feature in 5.24

    Flavio Poletti: You are right. The CoC sidebar was only written to explain the background why this removal suddenly went through. Without 2nd deprecation. With those new CoC rules technical criticism on wrong decisions is not possible anymore, they are effectively shut down, which led to much surprise damage done.

    But even without, nobody arguing on p5p has any technical insight of the actual problems and the future problems this removal does cost. On RT there is still some knowledge left, but this forum is also censored.

    Now with the new pumping it will even get worse, as he…

  • Reini Urban commented on The removal of the lexical topic feature in 5.24

    RGS: You are right, that the adoption rate of my $_ and the _ prototype was a problem. I would explain that with the experimental burden. Nobody is using any experimental p5p feature at all (besides say), esp. since all the successful features are not coming from p5p, they are coming from CPAN. I would not trust any p5p feature at all, so nobody is using it.

    But the real problem is that my $_ needs to be supported to use given/when and smartmatch at all. There's no future without it. So as I see it the future of a p5p perl is death by incompetence, not only death by CoC. So there wil…

  • Matt S Trout (mst) commented on The removal of the lexical topic feature in 5.24

    The _ prototype failed to be adopted long before the experimental pragma arrived on the scene, much though I guess that doesn't fit the desired narrative.

    I find it fascinating that in spite of reini's assertions to me on Twitter earlier that he always focuses on technical aspects first, once again the actual technical questions in this thread have been entirely ignored by reini in favour of further long form personal attacks. One might postulate that this tendency to insult and ignore attempts to engage in technical argument on the merits is a more parsimonious explanation of his ex…

  • Aaron Crane commented on The removal of the lexical topic feature in 5.24

    Reini,

    You have been told before that personal attacks are not welcome here. I am no longer willing to provide a platform for you to publish them, and as of today, I am therefore disabling your user account here. This is a permanent action; it will be in place for as long as I am directly involved with blogs.perl.org.

    To be clear, this is not censorship: there are plenty of other places where people can blog without relying on blogs.perl.org. In addition, I will, if you choose, provide a 301 redirect from your existing posts here to another site. If you wish to take me up on …

  • franciskim.co commented on Truth about Booking.com

    After a skim read I already think it's a bit of a cliche - it's not just Booking.com, this type of behaviour is present in many, many companies. That's why nothing beats working for yourself.

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