I always think of the questions game in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Lenzmoritz and Damienstern?) instead of Whose Line?. 15-love, Conway!
On Tuesday, August 23, 2011, philippe.beauch...@bell.ca < philippe.beauch...@bell.ca> wrote: > Whoosh.... > No... LOL > > I was making reference to another Whose Line game, (as Damian was with the all questions thing)... And the hyphen thing. :) > > > > > Philippe R. Beauchamp > Secure Channel | Bell Business Markets > Associate Director - Application Services > Phone: 613-781-8953 > Cell: 613-327-6928 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Richard Hainsworth [mailto:rich...@rusrating.ru] > Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 06:28 AM > To: perl6-language@perl.org <perl6-language@perl.org> > Subject: Re: [perl6/specs] a7cfe0: [S32] backtraces overhaul > > If you're asking for an explanation of the humour, then it's easy. There > is no word play or a significant reference to a program only available > to a special audience. > > Seems to me that when Damian got to the end of his email he noticed that > each sentence ended in a '?' > > That's not usual. Most emails contain assertions and questions. > > The humour is really when he appended a "?" to his own name. Was he > really questioning what he was called? > > Richard > > On 08/23/2011 02:19 PM, philippe.beauch...@bell.ca wrote: >> Help us always-explains-the-joke-man!!... >> :) >> >> >> >> >> >> Philippe R. Beauchamp >> Secure Channel | Bell Business Markets >> Associate Director - Application Services >> Phone: 613-781-8953 >> Cell: 613-327-6928 >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Moritz Lenz [mailto:mor...@faui2k3.org] >> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 04:56 AM >> To: perl6-language@perl.org<perl6-language@perl.org> >> Subject: Re: [perl6/specs] a7cfe0: [S32] backtraces overhaul >> >> Am 23.08.2011 10:46, schrieb Damian Conway: >>> It's a trivial point, but why hidden_from_backtrace instead of >>> hidden-from-backtrace? Especially given that the associated >>> method is is-hidden, not is_hidden? >> The current stance seems to be that low-level things are spelled with >> underscores, while we reserve the minus character for user-space code. >> Try grepping the specs for identifiers of built-ins that have a minus in >> it -- I didn't find any in a quick search. >> >> >>> And why is this entire message written in questions? >> Is it? I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean. >> >> See >> https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/a7cfe02002f665c120cf4b735919779820194757 >> maybe it's a charset problem on your machine, or something. >> >> Cheers, >> Moritz > -- Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com>
