[apologies to anyone who received this twice... the bonehead at the keyboard
left the subject blank. ]
> This week I was fortunate enough to hear Damian speak twice, once on
> everything and once on Perl6. Damian, it was tremendous of you to come
> and speak to us in London - thank-you very muc
Aaron Crane:
> However, I don't think it should be called 'seperate'. I also don't think
> it should be called 'separate', because that word seems to be commonly
> misspelled...
That seems like an excellent argument for calling it 'separate'. Perhaps it
will be the first of many spelling-improvi
Angel Faus:
> Maybe the solution is to make it hash-wise:
>
> %hash = @array.sep {
> when /^[A-Z]*$/ {'uppercase'}
> when /^[a-z]*$/ {'lowercase'}
> default {'mixedcase'}
> }
I agree that general partitioning is 'better' than a fixed binary proposal,
but what is ga
>Atriel:
>> Damian:
>> Can I suggest that an alternative solution might be the following:
>>
>> Suppose Perl 6 had two new very low precedence operators: ~> and <~
>> (a.k.a. "bind rightwards" and "bind leftwards")
>>
>> @out = @a ~> grep {...} ~> map {...} ~> sort;
>>
>> @ou
Leo:
HLLs like Smalltalk that treat everything as an object do so only at the
visible HLL level. Underneath in the VM things are optimized into branches
and native representation (in certain circumstances). I don't see any
reason that we wouldn't expect the Smalltalk->Parrot compiler to make
s
> Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> while(<>) {
> $count++;
> $total += substr($_,22,2);
> }
> printf "Average: %.2f\n", $total/$count;
>
>Right now, if my expected numeric column has garbage in it on the
>400,000th line, I treat it as zero a
On Monday, April 29, 2002 3:10 PM, Aaron Sherman wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 19:06, Allison Randal wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 05:24:13PM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
> > > Of course it brings other less wholesome things to mind like "elsfor"
> > > and "elsloop" and "if ... elsfor" and "f
