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Can't we do both? Seriously: I apologize to bulk88 and the list for my vitriol. I failed at perspective and self-control. Not my first, and surely not my last, mistake of this kind ... and take that please, not as minimizing, but confession. On 6/19/2012 9:21 PM, David Mertens wrote: > > 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 > <mailto:bulk88@hotmail.com>> wrote: > > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:20:21 -0700 > > From: rev.chip@gmail.com <mailto:rev.chip@gmail.com> > > To: bulk88@hotmail.com <mailto:bulk88@hotmail.com> > > CC: perl5-porters@perl.org <mailto: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. > > >Thread Previous | Thread Next