[ID 20000111.009] Better English

[Rob McMillin <rlm@raggy.doubledogmusic.com>]

This is a bug report for perl from rlm@doubledogmusic.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00503.


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There's a great deal of complaining in the English module that you can't
use it unless you can live with a really bad performance hit in all your
regexps. How about an "English::Good" module? This would basically be
the same thing as the English module, but it wouldn't include the names
MATCH, PREMATCH, and POSTMATCH. English could then import (and
re-export) everything from English::Good as its own if you absolutely,
positively had to have all the above.

Another approach: if you need MATCH, PREMATCH, and POSTMASTCH, perhaps
you could invoke a module English::Bad that would have all these bad
boys in them, and would hammer performance on those unluckies who need
them. In this latter scenario, you would import English, and import
English::Bad if you used those other variables.

The advantage of the first scheme is it would break no existing scripts;
but then, few people would also receive the benefits unless they RTFM'd.
The advantage of the latter is (I feel, anyway) that most folks don't
really use these variables, so breaking them would help more people
immediately. That is, it's an engineering choice in favor of helping
more people with performance improvements.

Would this work, or am I inhaling something? :-)

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Site configuration information for perl 5.00503:

Configured by root at Mon Aug 30 23:08:56 EDT 1999.

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.2.5-22smp, archname=i386-linux
    uname='linux porky.devel.redhat.com 2.2.5-22smp #1 smp wed jun 2 09:11:51 edt 1999 i686 unknown '
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
    cppflags='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=undef, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl 5.00503:
    /usr/home/rlm/src/perls
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    .

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Environment for perl 5.00503:
    HOME=/usr/home/rlm
    LANG=en
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LC_ALL=en_US
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/home/rlm/src/perls:/usr/local/netscape
    PERL5LIB=/usr/home/rlm/src/perls
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

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Follow-Ups from:

Jeff Pinyan <jeffp@crusoe.net>
Sam Tregar <sam@tregar.com>

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