From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 9 18:58:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay1.yahoo.com (mail-relay1.yahoo.com [216.145.48.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 409EA37B410 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 18:58:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from FreeBSD.org (12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com [12.234.90.219]) by mail-relay1.yahoo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0B358B5B5; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 18:58:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D0407DD.9FC040F9@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 18:58:53 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: Anton Berezin , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Head's up: NO_PERL -> NO_PERL_WRAPPER References: <3D032261.8CB94725@FreeBSD.org> <20020609105353.GD25520@heechee.tobez.org> <3D033825.C024679E@FreeBSD.org> <3D034AD8.F5EA3DDD@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > If we are expressing preferences, I prefer that it be called: > > NO_WE_CHANGE_THE_NAME_SO_YOU_GET_PERL_ANYWAY_`date "+%Y%m%d%H%M%S"` If we're expressing preferences, I think we should eliminate the wrapper altogether. > Just so that the name matches it's *real* function, which is apparently > to make sure that whatever variable you set to avoid getting perl last > time is totally ineffective in preventing you getting perl this time. But you're not getting perl, you're just getting the basically harmless wrapper. I had two choices with this change, I could either change the variable back to NOPERL which both A) Doesn't match the current pseudo-standard, and B) doesn't describe what it's actually doing. > I personally just consider it an unsubtle means of perl advocacy... I tend to agree with this. -- "We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory." - George W. Bush, President of the United States State of the Union, January 28, 2002 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message