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* Christian Walde <walde.christian@gmail.com> [2023-08-22 23:09:09 +0200]:
> On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 20:43:03 +0200, Oodler 577 via perl5-porters <perl5-porters@perl.org> wrote:
>
> > vaporware
>
> ovid never used that word.
I am going to take your word for it, but I believe this statement
is correct in the literal sense.
>
> ovid merely pointed out the basic fact that you have provided no code that
> is executable on the official perl distribution
>
> if you have it, please provide
>
>
>
> it is also notable that the non-functional code you DO have on CPAN
> proposes to provide a string.pm which would violate PAUSE perms, as:
>
> $ cpanm string
> --> Working on string
> Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/A/AB/ABERGMAN/types-0.05.tar.gz ... OK
>
> something which you have steadfastly refused reply to in any fashion,
> which makes one wonder
Have you inspected the source code of types.pm"?
It is a 21 year old CPAN squatter package that contains the following code:
( direct link, https://metacpan.org/dist/types/source/lib/types.pm):
Note via CPAN, types.pm provides:
* float in lib/types.pm
* int in lib/types.pm
* number in lib/types.pm
* string in lib/types.pm
* unknown in lib/types.pm
And the code, which is unfortunate:
package types;
...
package unknown;
our $dummy = 1;
package int;
our $dummy = 1;
sub check {
return 0 if($_[0] eq 'int' && ($_[1] ne 'number' && $_[1] ne 'int'));
return 1;
}
package float;
use base qw(int);
sub check {
return 0 if($_[1] eq 'string');
return 1;
}
our $dummy = 1;
package number;
use base qw(float);
sub check {
return 0 if($_[1] eq 'string');
return 1;
}
our $dummy = 1;
package string;
use base qw(number);
sub check { return 1};
1;
__END__
And that's just the facts. "Playing nice" with a clear case of CPAN squatting
is hard to do. What do you suggest the path forward is for this pickle?
Cheers,
Brett
>
> --
> With regards,
> Christian Walde
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