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From:
David Mertens
Date:
June 19, 2012 21:22
Subject:
RE: Time for a 64-bit perl API?
Message ID:
CA+4ieYUnFA5dE=5sDez6+fAYY18FyrAbs=qEsMuXaZ2SC3VFBA@mail.gmail.com
Instead of arguing about who is right and who is wrong, let's remember that
there are others our there who are glad to see us bicker. Bulk88 has a
working example. Chip has some insight (not a surprise). Let's marry those
two and get to a 64 bit api instead of giving our competitors a reason to
be gleeful.

David
On Jun 19, 2012 6:46 PM, "bulk 88" <bulk88@hotmail.com> wrote:

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> ----------------------------------------
> > Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:20:21 -0700
> > From: rev.chip@gmail.com
> > To: bulk88@hotmail.com
> > CC: perl5-porters@perl.org
> > Subject: Re: Time for a 64-bit perl API?
> >
> > Your finding error values for *signed* types as rebuttals was therefore
> > amusingly irrelevant, and your inability to correct your own error is,
> > frankly, sad.
> >
> I have no reason at all to correct my XS code. My error was intentional
> and I already disclosed it in the XS post. There would be no conversation
> without a working example. It is naive to assume that programmer error is
> impossible. I am not speaking for myself, but for other less knowledgeable
> programmers who might want to work on the perl interp or write XS modules.
>
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