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Re: CPerl and Perl 5.10.x
From: |
Ilya Zakharevich |
Subject: |
Re: CPerl and Perl 5.10.x |
Date: |
Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:52:18 +0000 (UTC) |
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slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Linux) |
On 2009-09-01, Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote:
>>> Sorry if I'm being dense: is the Emacs cperl-mode.el out of sync with
>>> Ilya's version?
>
> IZ> It is "different", and majorly buggy.
>
> So why not update it with your version? Again, sorry if I am missing
> the necessary context, but it seems like a good idea.
They want conformance to non-backward-compatible coding style. "Mine"
cperl-mode.el is backward-compatible. "Their" is conformant, but very
buggy...
> IZ> Given that (AFAIK) 5.10 is now too buggy to be usable, I hesitate to
> IZ> make the change for 5.10-highlight. If there a way to make "flavors"
> IZ> of highlights (as in "minor mode" over "major mode") conveniently -
> IZ> and without a non-necessary slow-down?
>
> Sorry, I don't know the answer, but I'm in favor of using the 5.10
> highlighting if it must be one or the other. I doubt the difference
> will matter enough to most users, and those who do will probably prefer
> 5.10.
Why? Myself, I did not see 5.10 yet... (Oups, no. In fact I do have a
copy of a binary distribution somewhere on the drive... It is
unzipped, but not installed.)
Yours,
Ilya