Re: [ID 19991229.003] perl 5.005_03 core dumps -- singal

[Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>]

>Tom Christiansen writes:
>> Larry> That's more needless complexity.  
>> Larry> This should be hidden from the user.
>> 
>> Ilya> And if you do not like the interface, write a module which
>> Ilya> deparses
>> Ilya>       sub { ++$count; return }
>> Ilya> to [ inc => \$count ].  Make assignment to $SIG autoload this module.
>> Ilya> If deparse fails, enable the delayed semantic.
>> 
>> This still falls under the imprecation against `needless complexity'.

>"This" is what?  Needless for what?

Needless for making easy things easy.  Contributatory toward 
introducing labyrinthine complexities that are the very thing
that have driven so many people away from languages like C.  
Let's not slap them in the face with the same crap.

>> Upon packing his bags in preparation for a journey, the savvy traveller
>> discards fully fifty percent of his stowed possessions, for he realizes
>> that needless clutter and gratuitous baggage but weigh him down and
>> distract him from his goal.  It is only after many years of repeated
>> mistakes that the truly seasoned traveller can a priori recognize
>> unjustifiable bloat for its hidden promise of inevitable annoyance.

>Hmm, is not it prose?  Did anybody find any technical contents in this?

Are you really so completely impervious to the allusions of metaphor and
allegory that one must always present to you relentlessly sterile bits and
bytes full of machine language of tediously symbolic progamming calculus
with which to feed into your presumed wetware?  While I realize that
you are not a native speaker, I also truly believe that you would find,
if you gave them a smidgen of a chance, that even the most remedial of
reading-for-comprehension skills hold a utility beyond that of boosting
his parents' pride when they read their 3rd grader's report card.

--tom

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