Tim Bunce wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 01:49:37PM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>
>>>(We've learnt the hard way with Perl5 modules names that more words are good.
>>
>>And more words that mean something... "Data" ranks right up there as the
>>worst possible names for anything.
>
>
> (Nah,
On Saturday 10 April 2004 12:42, Tim Bunce wrote:
> Perhaps Data::DeepReplacePMC
What do you think about:
PMC::DeepReplace (Data::Replace)
PMC::Printable (Data::Escape)
PMC::Sort (Data::Sort)
PMC::Dumper (Data::Dumper)
> (We've learnt the hard way with Perl5 modules names that more words are
> go
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 01:49:37PM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> >
> > (We've learnt the hard way with Perl5 modules names that more words are good.
>
> And more words that mean something... "Data" ranks right up there as the
> worst possible names for anything.
(Nah, "Sys" and "System" are
>
> (We've learnt the hard way with Perl5 modules names that more words are good.
And more words that mean something... "Data" ranks right up there as the
worst possible names for anything.
> Keeping module names very short is a false economy.)
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 03:02:00PM +0200, Jens Rieks wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thursday 08 April 2004 23:49, Tim Bunce wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 08:28:49PM +0200, Jens Rieks wrote:
> > > Data::Replace replaces every occurrence of one PMC in a nested data
> > > structure with another PMC.
> >
>
Sounds like a deep version of map...
Regards,
-- Gregor
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 06:02, Jens Rieks wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thursday 08 April 2004 23:49, Tim Bunce wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 08:28:49PM +0200, Jens Rieks wrote:
> > > Data::Replace replaces every occurrence of one PMC in a neste
Hi,
On Thursday 08 April 2004 23:49, Tim Bunce wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 08:28:49PM +0200, Jens Rieks wrote:
> > Data::Replace replaces every occurrence of one PMC in a nested data
> > structure with another PMC.
>
> I'm not sure what that means, but Data::Replace seems too vague.
> What is
I'm pretty sure this is escaping from PIR's point of view - it started
life as a method for _dumper() to dump strings that you could then copy
back into PIR and have them work. (though it looks like Jens has made
it far more functional since then.)
Presumably individual languages will have thei
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 08:28:49PM +0200, Jens Rieks wrote:
>
> Data::Replace replaces every occurrence of one PMC in a nested data structure
> with another PMC.
I'm not sure what that means, but Data::Replace seems too vague.
What is it?
> Data::Escape contains a function "String" that escapes
