[ANNOUNCE] POOC v0.2

2002-10-21 Thread Michael Lazzaro
The Perl6 OO Cookbook, v0.2 is online. http://cog.cognitivity.com/perl6/ Changes include: [] *Much* better accuracy in most of the early recipes (better matching to Apos/Exes and perl6-language: see the 'Status' fields of each recipe.) More fixes coming very soon. [] Ability to annotate se

Re: Character Properties

2002-10-21 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Dan Sugalski wrote : > > And, FWIW, emacs is written in C. Granted a much macro-mutated > version of C, but C nonetheless. Just like Perl 5 ;-)

Re: Character Properties

2002-10-21 Thread Luke Palmer
> I didn't call the problem unreasonable, I was objecting to its > characterization as an "essential feature". It isn't. A useful thing, > definitely, but there are a lot of those. It's hardly essential any > more than, say, a hash that automagically maps to the current > directory's files (ite

Re: Character Properties

2002-10-21 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 7:22 PM + 10/21/02, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: Dan Sugalski wrote : And, FWIW, emacs is written in C. Granted a much macro-mutated version of C, but C nonetheless. Just like Perl 5 ;-) Almost. At least perl 5's macros look like C. Emacs' macro horrors make C look like Lisp... --

Re: Character Properties

2002-10-21 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 2:20 PM -0600 10/21/02, Luke Palmer wrote: > Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Unverified) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:37:51 -0400 From: Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-SMTPD: qpsmtpd/0.12-dev, http://develooper.com/code/qpsmtpd/ At 11:0

Re: Character Properties

2002-10-21 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Whipp) writes: > It should be possible to define the bookmark methods on the basic string > class to rebless the object onto a more powerful subclass. That makes it a doubly good candidate for modulehood. -- It's 106 miles from Birmingham, we've got an eighth of a tank

Re: Character Properties

2002-10-21 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:53 AM -0700 10/21/02, Austin Hastings wrote: Yeah, but emacs isn't written in any of those languages. What, you're using emacs as an argument *for* something? :-P And, FWIW, emacs is written in C. Granted a much macro-mutated version of C, but C nonetheless. --- Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PRO

RE: Character Properties

2002-10-21 Thread David Whipp
Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: > > Ok, how about this: Is there a reason I to? Or > > should I not go there? > > Off hand, it sounds expensive. I don't see a way to only let > the people who use it incur the penalty, but my vision isn't > the best in the world. It should be possible to define the

Re: Character Properties

2002-10-21 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 02:20:56PM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote: > Fair enough. Then tell me how you solve this problem: You have a text > file in a string, that the user has marked several places in. He's > referring to words for which he wants to keep bookmarks in. Now, he > deletes text (using su

Re: Character Properties

2002-10-21 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:09 PM -0600 10/20/02, Luke Palmer wrote: What's the plan on having properties, or attributes (depending on how far we're taking it), on individual characters in a string? I think it's an essential feature, as Lisp has shown us. If there's an argument otherwise, I'm all ears. While they'r

Re: Character Properties

2002-10-21 Thread Luke Palmer
> Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm > X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Unverified) > Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:37:51 -0400 > From: Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-SMTPD: qpsmtpd/0.12-dev, http://develooper.com/code/qpsmtpd/ > > At 11:09 PM -0600 10/20/02, Luke Palmer wrote: >