Andy Lester

Results 231 issues of Andy Lester

`use vars` has been discouraged since the introduction of `our` in Perl 5.6.0. Add a policy that prohibits it.

Suggested policy

Module::Build is no longer core. Does Module::Build provide enough benefit to recommend it over stock ExtUtils::MakeMaker?

Dev internals

Consider these cases: ``` $ok = $n == 1 || $n == 2 || 3; $ok = $x eq 'x' || $x eq 'y' || 'z'; $ok = $x eq...

Suggested policy

All the timing infrastructure for dev is based on the code repo for the Parrot language. Parrot is [offically inactive](http://www.parrot.org/news/inactive-parrot) and I suspect the code base may disappear. We should...

internals
optimization

More cases that we should warn against: `ack -w \bfoo\b` because the \b will conflict with -w.

feature

We have --with-filename, but not --without-filename (we use --no-filename). Should we at least add --without-filename?

feature

git-q starts if len(argv) < 3: usage() but there is no `usage` function to call.

The window that shows the ack results doesn't have those results highlighted. For me, the coloring is critical for scanning lists of results. if the detection of highlighting isn't something...

enhancement

I often use context to see what's around the matches that I've found. It would be nice to have Ack.vim's results could handle non-matching lines in the output and still...

enhancement
help wanted

I'm loading Mojo::UserAgent in my web app to go fetch pages behind the scenes. Unfortunately, this brings in many unnecessary modules that have to get loaded in my app, such...