Re: Something to hash out

2001-08-29 Thread Leon Brocard
Dan Sugalski sent the following bits through the ether: > I like it The following amusing entries were posted on london.pm-list but I haven't seen them here, so without further ado: Greg McCarroll: pbc could be shortened to pb, which has two meanings precompiled byte code and pretty boy, as

Re: Something to hash out

2001-08-29 Thread Stephane Payrard
Hi Leon! On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Leon Brocard wrote: > Dan Sugalski sent the following bits through the ether: > > > I like it > > The following amusing entries were posted on london.pm-list but > I haven't seen them here, so without further ado: > > Greg McCarroll: > pbc could be shortened to

Re: Something to hash out

2001-08-29 Thread Simon Cozens
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 12:25:45PM +, Stephane Payrard wrote: > > precompiled code could have the extension .dead as in > > the parrot code is dead, it is dead parrot code, it > > is not running > > In that case, "DEADC0DE" would be an appropriate heaxadecimal magic > header just like "

Re: Something to hash out

2001-08-29 Thread Ken Fox
Dan wrote: > I like it. It's a race between those and Randal's .par and .rot (for the > bytecode) extensions. Please say the file extensions are only needed to prevent a clash of the source file and bytecode if they're stored in the same directory... We can say "parrot foo.whatever" and parrot w

Re: Something to hash out

2001-08-29 Thread Simon Cozens
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:50:00AM -0400, Ken Fox wrote: > Please say the file extensions are only needed to prevent a clash of the > source file and bytecode if they're stored in the same directory... > > We can say "parrot foo.whatever" and parrot will do the right thing > regardless if foo.wha

Re: Something to hash out

2001-08-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Simon" == Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Simon> Actually, I'm trying to make the bytecode magic be 0x13155A1. Can you swing a cluestick in my direction? Whuh? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehe

Re: Something to hash out

2001-08-29 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Wednesday 29 August 2001 07:10 am, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > "Simon" == Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Simon> Actually, I'm trying to make the bytecode magic be 0x13155A1. > > Can you swing a cluestick in my direction? Whuh? In decimal, 20010401, or 1 April 2001, the "bi