Sorry if you get this twice (and slightly different), but I posted it
off list by mistake.
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From: Thomas Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:22:44 +
Subject: Re: Junctive puzzles.
To: Matthew Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Going to get the hang of this sending to a list thing soon.
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From: Thomas Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:40:03 +
Subject: Re: Fwd: Junctive puzzles.
To: "Patrick R. Michaud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
If only I c
Very impressive. Has inspired me to learn some Haskell.
Thanks,
Tom
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 21:17:35 +0800, Autrijus Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 09:42:06AM +0000, Thomas Yandell wrote:
> > perl6 -MData::Dumper -e 'print Dumper(any(2,3,4,5) &&
Will there be a way to achieve what the Carp module does in perl 6? I
like the functionality it gives me, but think that it should be
builtin. Perhaps it could work like this:
caller.throw('an error');
Could this:
throw('an error');
just be another way to say:
$?BLOCK.throw('an error');
When pugs is invoked as C so that it reads the program from
standard in, I think it should re-open stdin before the code is
executed.
In perl 5:
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/pugs$ perl -
while () {
print $_;
}
(Ctrl+d)
I type and it repeats
I type and it repeats
In pugs:
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/p
> > > I'm not even sure I like the *possibility* of using non-ascii letters
> in
> > > identifiers, even.
> > I think we already have Latin-1 in identifiers...
>
> more's the pity.
According to Wikipedia there are around 400 million native English speakers
and 600 million people who have Engli
But your numbers are utterly useless, as they are counts of humans, not
> programmers. I think that the number of programmers who don't understand
> English is very small. They know English because historically, the
> programmer's world has been English.
My point was that English speakers are in
