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Re: on broken manpages, trolling, inconsistent implementation and the difficulty to fix bugs

From:
Dr.Ruud
Date:
May 20, 2008 16:56
Subject:
Re: on broken manpages, trolling, inconsistent implementation and the difficulty to fix bugs
Message ID:
20080520235635.18116.qmail@lists.develooper.com
Juerd Waalboer schreef:

> I intend to release a module that handles this in Perl space in a way
> that is backward compatible to 5.000. Its name is BLOB.
>
> One thing that it doesn't do, is avoid concatenation with non-BLOBs.
> I'd like to learn if this can be done at all.

Maybe stringize is as undef? (or as an empty string)


Somewhat related: a bigstring type would be nice. Probably implemented
as an array of hashrefs. (Or as the tree that D.Nicol envisions.)

Each hash contains the value: ( _ => "some text" ), and can contain meta
information for that value: ( mimetype => "plain/ascii", language =>
"English", etc. ).

For joining the strings, there could be a concatenation separator, for
example a path separator like "/".
Each part of the path could then have its own
characterset/contenttype/encoding/semantics/etc.

-- 
Affijn, Ruud

"Gewoon is een tijger."




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