brian d foy

MoarVM panic with CONTROL block

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I was goofing around with Rakudo 2017.01 with this stupid program. The program isn't meant to be correct or do anything. I was trying various things to see what happens,...

Name the files for what they act on

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It would be easier to me to keep track of which file does what it the filename included the thing it operated on and what sort of entry it expects"...

Use three-argument open

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Many of the open-for-reading file handles didn't use three-argument open: https://kritika.io/users/briandfoy/repos/7253941177493998/snapshots/1/violations?limit=20&page=1&rule=InputOutput%3A%3AProhibitTwoArgOpen For example: open FOO, $filename; Add the default read mode in the middle: open FOO, '

I tried to remove the `DB_File` prerequisite, but in doing so I noticed that this program in heavily tied to unix utilities not present in PerlPowerTools and depends on various...

find: does find -mtime work on Windows?

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http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.ppt/2006/02/msg38.html An old message discusses a problem where hours seemed like days.

Start managing the wiki

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Let's use the Github wiki stuff. Someone should take charge of that and do stuff. :)

Collect metadata on each program

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Collect meta data for all the programs. Store them in a consistent way in the program for now. See the bin/factor program for a start. See the top =pod section

Make consistent Pod documentation

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Inside each program under bin/, create consistent Pod documentation, including the name of the program, the list of the contributors, and so on. See bin/factor for an example.

On page 218, Damian covers IO::Interactive, which I now maintain. That best practice talks about the magic of ARGV, not problems with `-t`. There's nothing wrong with `-t`. This isn't...