Re: A proposal for more powerful text processing to be built in to Perl: Flex and Pushdown Expressions.

2001-05-11 Thread Tad McClellan
lready have that in Perl 5? if ( /\G\s+/gc ) {# whitespaces } elsif ( /\G[*/+-]/gc ) { # operator } elsif ( /\G\d+/gc ) {# term } elsif ( /\G.+/gc ) { # unrecognized token } -- Tad McClellan SGML consu

Re: apo 2

2001-05-04 Thread Tad McClellan
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:51:43AM -0400, John Porter wrote: > @pi are square; Pi are round. Cake are square. -- Tad McClellan SGML consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl programming Fort Worth, Texas

Re: Schwartzian Transform

2001-03-26 Thread Tad McClellan
illustrative, no?) I like to use sorting filenames based on the file's size as an example. Nothing like throwing some disk accesses into it if slow is what you seek. -- Tad McClellan SGML consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl programming Fort Worth, Texas

Re: Perl culture, perl readabillity

2001-03-26 Thread Tad McClellan
it yet: "Natural Language Principles in Perl" http://www.wall.org/~larry/natural.html -- Tad McClellan SGML consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl programming Fort Worth, Texas

Re: Critique available

2000-11-02 Thread Tad McClellan
nce between the gunnel and the waterline. (with which is gunnel and which is waterline open to debate, it appears :-) Poor planning. Let's not do that again. -- Tad McClellan SGML consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl programming Fort Worth, Texas

What will the Perl6 code name be? (again)

2000-10-29 Thread Tad McClellan
flower heads. Seems applicable: Has the phonetic equivalent thing going. Perl 6 is to be "the last Perl". And we could claim to drink margaritas instead of coffee/cola/Jolt. I suggest we refrain from doing anything with that "phalis" part though... :-) -

Re: new to perl

2000-10-24 Thread Tad McClellan
Lists" that includes yet more non6 lists. You made a mistake. Apologize and do it right from now on, don't try and wiggle out of it. -- Tad McClellan SGML consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl programming Fort Worth, Texas

Re: new to perl

2000-10-24 Thread Tad McClellan
y. That should be: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; And if you are using s, make that: #!/usr/bin/perl -wT use strict; Type: perldoc perlrun perldoc perlsec to find about about the '-wT' part. Type: perldoc strict perldoc -f my do find out about the "use stri

Re: Continued RFC process

2000-10-10 Thread Tad McClellan
e'd be keen too... :-) Would that be a Sacred Decoder? Would that be a Secret Decoder? Maybe it's not even a typo. Is it an attempt to create a new word so that you can be enshrined in etymologies throughout the world? -- Tad McClellan SGML consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl programming Fort Worth, Texas

Re: RFC 357 (v1) Perl should use XML for documentation instead of POD

2000-10-02 Thread Tad McClellan
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:59:46PM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote: > On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 13:54:47 -0400, Tad McClellan wrote: > > >> Improperly nested tags, or one character it > >> doesn't recognize... and the parser says "nyet". > > > >I read

Re: Perl already allows XML for documentation (was Re: RFC 357 (v1) Perl should use XML for documentation instead of POD)

2000-10-01 Thread Tad McClellan
ith an XML DTD. It only needs to "map" (be translatable) to an XML DTD. Authors get to write in POD. Some program turns it into XML. Readers get to have their way with it. -- Tad McClellan SGML consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Don't require braces

2000-09-13 Thread Tad McClellan
t; 10) { print $i; print $j; } or while ($i < 10) { print $i; } print $j; ??? How is perl to know? > I know that some will tell that when the condition is more complicated this more complicated than it is worth, it seems to me. -- Tad McClellan

Re: Net::Ping problem

2000-09-06 Thread Tad McClellan
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 02:51:03PM +0200, Willy wrote: > Does anyone know how can i [snip] > How can i do?? You cannot do this in perl6 because perl6 does not yet exist. Please do not abuse this mailing list with off-topic questions. Thank you. -- Tad McC