On Fri, May 17, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 08:37:32PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > Pssst. Brent. Don't tell anyone, but ~0 *is* -1... :)
>
> $ perl -le 'print ~0'
> 4294967295
> $ perl -le 'print -1'
> -1
>
> What language were we talking about? :-)
$ perl -e 'printf "%d
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 03:27:44PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 8:04 PM +0100 5/17/02, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> >On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 08:37:32PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> >> Pssst. Brent. Don't tell anyone, but ~0 *is* -1... :)
> >
> >$ perl -le 'print ~0'
> >4294967295
> >$ perl -le 'prin
At 8:04 PM +0100 5/17/02, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 08:37:32PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>> Pssst. Brent. Don't tell anyone, but ~0 *is* -1... :)
>
>$ perl -le 'print ~0'
>4294967295
>$ perl -le 'print -1'
>-1
>
>What language were we talking about? :-)
C, of course. Perl's
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 08:37:32PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Pssst. Brent. Don't tell anyone, but ~0 *is* -1... :)
$ perl -le 'print ~0'
4294967295
$ perl -le 'print -1'
-1
What language were we talking about? :-)
[Actually, this is a big area of :-(
Because perl programmers are used to wr
At 9:22 PM -0700 5/16/02, Brent Dax wrote:
>Dan Sugalski:
># At 5:28 PM -0700 5/16/02, Brent Dax wrote:
># >Dan Sugalski:
># ># Okay, I've checked in the final changes to this edit of
># PDD 2, the #
># >vtable pdd. Tine to rip into it^W^W^Wexamine it closely. :)
># >
># >I guess I'm first.
># >
>
Dan Sugalski:
# At 5:28 PM -0700 5/16/02, Brent Dax wrote:
# >Dan Sugalski:
# ># Okay, I've checked in the final changes to this edit of
# PDD 2, the #
# >vtable pdd. Tine to rip into it^W^W^Wexamine it closely. :)
# >
# >I guess I'm first.
# >
# >I think the PARROT_TRUE/PARROT_FALSE thing is a
At 5:28 PM -0700 5/16/02, Brent Dax wrote:
>Dan Sugalski:
># Okay, I've checked in the final changes to this edit of PDD 2, the
># vtable pdd. Tine to rip into it^W^W^Wexamine it closely. :)
>
>I guess I'm first.
>
>I think the PARROT_TRUE/PARROT_FALSE thing is a Really Bad Idea.
I'm not thrilled
Dan Sugalski:
# Okay, I've checked in the final changes to this edit of PDD 2, the
# vtable pdd. Tine to rip into it^W^W^Wexamine it closely. :)
I guess I'm first.
I think the PARROT_TRUE/PARROT_FALSE thing is a Really Bad Idea.
I understand that we need a way to indicate exceptions. However,
