Paris Sinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But as soon as a person labels me a minority, and implies that because I
> have been labeled such that I am a rioter, and that my opinions are
> based upon this label, then your choices are to filter me, or to listen
> to me protest.
Then perhaps you
>Could you please start from the assumption that we're all interested in
>supporting the full Unicode space to the greatest degree possible? None
>of us are trying to force an ASCII-only alphabet on anyone (although some
>of us are interested in keeping ASCII-only operations fast and efficient
>s
Paris Sinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> kOn Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Bennett Todd wrote:
>> Someone wrote:
>>> What's the upper bound in a 16bit language? Or does that case just
>>> have to break? "Sorry, you're not European. Please be assimilated
>>> before using this tool. Resistance is futile."
2000-09-26-05:18:57 Paris Sinclair:
> > (%alphabet) = $string =~ tr/a-z//;
>
> also a little more concise (and certainly more efficient...) than
>
> %alphabet = map { $_ => eval "\$string =~ tr/$_//" } (a..z);
However, compared to say
$hist[ord($_)]++ for split //, $string;
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 09:55:38AM +0100, Richard Proctor wrote:
> > While this may be a fun thing to do - why? what is the application?
>
> I think I said in the RFC, didn't I? It's extending the counting use of tr///
> to allow you to count several d
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 01:55:10PM +0100, Richard Proctor wrote:
> It does not seem to have much to do with tr///, if you want it, why not put it
> in a module with some meaningful name such as histogram()?
Hm. Counting doesn't have much to do with tr///, if you think of it like that.
Now, if y
Simon,
> I think I said in the RFC, didn't I? It's extending the counting use of tr///
> to allow you to count several different letters at once. For instance, letter
> frequencies in text is an important metric for linguists, codebreakers and
> others; think about how you'd get letter frequenc
> From: Bart Lateur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:19:05 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
>
> >(%alphabet) = $string =~ tr/a-z//;
> >
> >Yum.
>
> You want it in a hash? Ooff. Well, maybe that's ok for Perl6.
>
> For Perl5, it would seem to make more sense, to me, to return
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:19:05 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
>(%alphabet) = $string =~ tr/a-z//;
>
>Yum.
You want it in a hash? Ooff. Well, maybe that's ok for Perl6.
For Perl5, it would seem to make more sense, to me, to return a list.
Simply a matter of consistency with the spirit of the rest
This and other RFCs are available on the web at
http://dev.perl.org/rfc/
=head1 TITLE
C in array context should return a histogram
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 24 Sep 2000
Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Number: 283
Version: 1
Status: Developi
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