From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22@gmail.com>
Cc: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC3.5 05/12] send-email: Improve redability and error-handling in send_message's sendmail code
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:43:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4087cc50904181943t71d501a6r51bb4cc846f32f78@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18071eea0904181917u7c7187bubc8fab6ede2d19ef@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 21:17, Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22@gmail.com> wrote:
> More concerning is that it's a perl 5.10ism -- you cannot assume that
> perl 5.10 is installed on all platforms. I really wouldn't use this
> construct.
See that's the thing: How am I supposed to know it's a perl 5.10ism?
The Perl docs give absolutely no clue; Perl[5] is based way too much
on practice rather than theory, because only people that have been
using it since day 1 know what's going on. A couple of weeks ago, I
went to the perldoc website and just read each website one after the
other---that is my total knowledge of Perl, and already I've caught
flack a number of times for having used 'new-fangled technologies'; I
really wish the docs would specify when a feature became available.
... add that to the list of perldoc shortcomings.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-19 2:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-18 17:01 [PATCH RFC3.5 00/12] Introduction to Decreasing send-email Entropy Michael Witten
2009-04-18 17:01 ` [PATCH RFC3.5 01/12] send-email: Cleanup the usage text and docs a bit Michael Witten
2009-04-18 17:01 ` [PATCH RFC3.5 02/12] send-email: No longer repeatedly test if $smtp_server is a command Michael Witten
2009-04-18 17:01 ` [PATCH RFC3.5 03/12] send-email: Interpret --smtp-server "" as "use a default" Michael Witten
2009-04-18 17:02 ` [PATCH RFC3.5 04/12] send-email: Verification for --smtp-server and --smpt-server-port Michael Witten
2009-04-18 17:02 ` [PATCH RFC3.5 05/12] send-email: Improve redability and error-handling in send_message's sendmail code Michael Witten
2009-04-18 17:02 ` [PATCH RFC3.5 06/12] send-email: Cleanup and streamline the SMTP code in send_message Michael Witten
2009-04-18 17:02 ` [PATCH RFC3.5 07/12] send-email: Cleanup send_message 'log' code Michael Witten
2009-04-18 17:02 ` [PATCH RFC3.5 08/12] send-email: Move Subject sanitization from --compose code to send_message Michael Witten
2009-04-18 17:02 ` [PATCH RFC3.5 09/12] Docs: send-email: Reorganize the CONFIGURATION section Michael Witten
2009-04-18 17:02 ` [PATCH RFC3.5 10/12] Docs: Embolden the CONFIGURATION references Michael Witten
2009-04-18 17:02 ` [PATCH RFC3.5 11/12] Docs: send-email: Clarification of sendemail.<identity> Michael Witten
2009-04-18 17:02 ` [PATCH RFC3.5 12/12] Docs: send-email: git send-email -> 'send-email' Michael Witten
2009-04-19 1:54 ` [PATCH RFC3.5 08/12] send-email: Move Subject sanitization from --compose code to send_message Jay Soffian
2009-04-19 2:37 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-19 14:13 ` Jay Soffian
2009-04-19 14:39 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-19 14:53 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-19 16:43 ` [PATCH RFC3.5.1 08/12] send-email: Simplify --compose subject sanitation Michael Witten
2009-04-21 2:34 ` Jeff King
2009-04-21 3:29 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-20 1:42 ` [PATCH RFC3.5 06/12] send-email: Cleanup and streamline the SMTP code in send_message Junio C Hamano
2009-04-20 5:38 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-20 6:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-19 1:51 ` [PATCH RFC3.5 05/12] send-email: Improve redability and error-handling in send_message's sendmail code Jay Soffian
2009-04-19 2:13 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-19 2:17 ` Thomas Adam
2009-04-19 2:43 ` Michael Witten [this message]
2009-04-19 4:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-19 13:49 ` [PATCH RFC3.5.1 05/12] send-email: Improve readability " Michael Witten
2009-04-19 14:16 ` [PATCH RFC3.5 05/12] send-email: Improve redability " Jay Soffian
2009-04-20 1:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-20 1:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-21 2:00 ` Jeff King
2009-04-21 3:14 ` Jeff King
2009-04-19 14:19 ` [PATCH RFC3.5.1 04/12] send-email: Verification for --smtp-server and --smpt-server-port Michael Witten
2009-04-20 15:53 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-20 1:42 ` [PATCH RFC3.5 " Junio C Hamano
2009-04-20 2:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-20 3:49 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-20 3:49 ` [PATCH RFC3.5 06/12] send-email: Cleanup and streamline the SMTP code in send_message Michael Witten
2009-04-18 23:35 ` [PATCH RFC3.5 03/12] send-email: Interpret --smtp-server "" as "use a default" Wesley J. Landaker
2009-04-19 0:13 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-19 14:16 ` [PATCH RFC3.5.1 " Michael Witten
2009-04-20 1:41 ` [PATCH RFC3.5 " Junio C Hamano
2009-04-20 2:52 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-20 1:41 ` [PATCH RFC3.5 02/12] send-email: No longer repeatedly test if $smtp_server is a command Junio C Hamano
2009-04-20 2:37 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-20 4:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-20 4:53 ` Subject: " Michael Witten
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