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Re: A plea for more pollution

From:
Hugo
Date:
March 16, 2000 08:52
Subject:
Re: A plea for more pollution
Message ID:
200003161657.QAA29650@crypt.compulink.co.uk
In <E12VctB-0004fN-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>, "M.J.T. Guy" writes:
:"Simon Cozens" <simon@othersideofthe.earth.li> wrote
:> FAILED:
:>	Storable (sv_yes, sv_no, sv_undef undefined)
:> 	Curses (na)
:> 	Term::ReadLine::Gnu (na, sv_undef)
:
:Lack of pollution strikes again.    We're going to see a lot of these.
:Lots and lots and lots and lots, clogging up perlbug and c.l.p.* .
:
:At least in the short term, we need more pollution.   And here's a
:half baked idea about how we might achieve it.
:
:MakeMaker should look at the date of the module. (What's the 'date'
:of a module?   That's one of the ways in which this idea is half-baked.)

Could we not simply grep *.[ch] for the names? It'd be a bit slow, I
guess, so a DWIS flag might be useful to suppress it.

Hugo



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