Re: [MacPerl-Scribes] Basic Perl Filters in BBEdit (mu

[David Steffen <steffen@biomedcomp.com>]

> How about the follwing statement, in lieu of David's text:
>
>"Perl Filters are stored in the "Perl Filters" folder within the
>"MacPerl Support" folder. Any Perl script saved to that folder
>(with the suffix ".pl") shows up in the "Perl Filters
>List", which is accessed from the "MacPerl" (picture of a
>camel) menu."
>
>Right before Jim's comments, makes the most sense to me.

1) Whatever you want, of course.

2) Substantive comment: the .pl extension is not required.  I use 
.plx, as I was taught by my pappy that .pl stood for Perl Library, 
e.g. things that you "require".  AFAIK, extension doesn't matter, but 
I haven't tested this.

3) Subjective comment: I understand your issue with overlap between 
Jim's stuff and mine, and certainly would go with Jim's where overlap 
occurs since he wrote the program and I am only involved because this 
discussion got me writing Perl filters for the very first time BUT:
As it stands, even with the above, all the required info is there, 
but maybe not in the clearest way for the beginner.  If I were the 
author AND if I had the time, I might try to figure out how to fit in 
a paint by numbers for the newborn.

Please don't take this as stubborness - just say "SHUT UP!" and I will :-)

-David-
David Steffen, Ph.D.
President, Biomedical Computing, Inc. <http://www.biomedcomp.com/>
Phone: (713) 610-9770 FAX: (713) 610-9769 E-mail: steffen@biomedcomp.com

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