On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
> print "There's a letter in here!\n" if (substr($pi, 0, 200) =~ /[a-z]/);
*shrug* I actually did think of that when I first proposed this;
doesn't substr make a fresh copy of the string? (I honestly don't know.)
What happens if you take a s
On Thursday 31 January 2002 22:03, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
junk. Too tired, I missed the point entirely.
> On Thursday 31 January 2002 21:03, Dave Storrs wrote:
> > Just a thought...the following would be *really* cool:
> >
> > my $pi = Pi::Generate;
> >
> > # Check the firs
On Thursday 31 January 2002 21:03, Dave Storrs wrote:
>
> Just a thought...the following would be *really* cool:
>
> my $pi = Pi::Generate;
>
> # Check the first 200 characters only; halt w/success if NO match
> print "There's a letter in here!\n" if ($pi =~ /[a-z]/h200t);
p
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> There is an issue of time--what do we do, for example, in the case:
>
> my $pi = Pi::Generate;
> if ($pi =~ /[a-z]) {
> print "There's a letter in here!\n";
> }
>
> if Pi::Generate returns a generator object that will calculate pi for
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 2:49 PM + 1/31/02, Tim Bunce wrote:
> >On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:47:36AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> >>
> >> For various reasons, some of which relate to the sequence-of-integer
> >> abstraction, and some of which relate to "infinite" strings an
At 5:34 PM + 1/31/02, Tim Bunce wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:18:28PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>> At 2:49 PM + 1/31/02, Tim Bunce wrote:
>> >On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:47:36AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
>> >>
>> >> For various reasons, some of which relate to the sequence-of-inte
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:18:28PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 2:49 PM + 1/31/02, Tim Bunce wrote:
> >On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:47:36AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> >>
> >> For various reasons, some of which relate to the sequence-of-integer
> >> abstraction, and some of which relate to "
At 2:49 PM + 1/31/02, Tim Bunce wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:47:36AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
>>
>> For various reasons, some of which relate to the sequence-of-integer
>> abstraction, and some of which relate to "infinite" strings and arrays,
>> I think Perl 6 strings are likely to b
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:47:36AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
>
> For various reasons, some of which relate to the sequence-of-integer
> abstraction, and some of which relate to "infinite" strings and arrays,
> I think Perl 6 strings are likely to be represented by a list of
> chunks, where each ch
