* Jonathan Scott Duff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [15 Aug 2003 00:16]:
[...]
> Besides you could always provide online updates to your book as the
> language changes. The first (dead tree) edition would be the rough
> cut, and later editions would be closer to reality as the language
> stablizes.
Much li
* Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões [15 Aug 2003 00:36]:
> On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 15:19, Iain Truskett wrote:
[...]
> > Much like "Perl 6 Essentials" then?
> >
> > I must say that its chapter 4 is the clearest look at
> > the perl 6 syntax (as it was at the ti
* Jonadab the Unsightly One ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [01 Jul 2003 23:41]:
> Iain Truskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Not the only one. And with Parrot being able to execute
> > Z-code, it might be sane to port Inform to Parrot!
> Did you mean port Inform to run on Par
* Jonadab the Unsightly One ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [30 Jun 2003 12:37]:
[...]
> The feature I'm most looking forward to in Perl6 is the improved
> object model. One of my first languages was Inform [...], so I got
> spoiled early in terms of what objects are supposed to be like.
Not the only one. A
* Damian Conway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [08 Jul 2002 10:27]:
[...]
> > given my Doberman $sis is female = .dog[0] but pregnant -> $mother {
> > for my Doberman @puppies = new Doberman x $mother.littersize
> I'd have thought you'd need:
> for my Doberman @puppies = (new Doberman) x $mother
* Larry Wall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [23 Apr 2002 11:56]:
[...]
> * Parens always capture.
Maybe I missed something in the rest of the details, but is anything
going to replace non-capturing parens? It's just that I do find them
quite useful.
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* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [05 Apr 2002 00:34]:
> hi,
> I thought it will be good if on dev.perl6.org we have an arhive with
> all Apo's and Ex's, so anyone can get them in pack... (prefebaly
> printed version) Throught the links I got all except Apo1. Anyone to
> have the link nearb
* Bryan C. Warnock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20 Jan 2002 05:33]:
> On Saturday 19 January 2002 12:20, iain truskett wrote:
[...]
> > It's a worry. Also odd is that Slashdot hasn't picked it up yet.
> Developers' section.
/me fossicks through configuration.
Ah. Did
* Bart Lateur ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20 Jan 2002 03:56]:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:33:48 -0500, Will Coleda wrote:
> > http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/15/apo4.html
[...]
> I thought I had just missed it... but there's no trace of it in the
> archives of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Or any other perl6 list.
Perl6 code name ?
> even the perl books has some animal to represent the main idea
> behind... or just for the fun.
Perl 6 sounds good. I suspect some people would be leaning towards a
gem, given Topaz and Sapphire.
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* Alan Gutierrez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [30 Sep 2000 14:55]:
> On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, iain truskett wrote:
> > Or someone could split CGI.pm up so that there's CGI::FormValues and
> > CGI::HTTPHeaders.
> By jove Mr. Truskett, that sounds like a smashing idea! Could we RFC
t not split the field
at tabs.
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Anya: We were going to light lots of candles and have sex near them!
P and %CGI is great, because then
> modules can just "use cgi" and parse those thing up, without having to
> read from STDIN and do all the GET/POST special stuff.
Or they can just grab stuff using CGI.pm...
Or someone could split CGI.pm up so that there's CGI::FormValues and
CGI::HTTPHeaders.
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* Philip Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [30 Sep 2000 02:47]:
> On 28 Sep 2000, at 21:36, iain truskett wrote:
[]
> > It's a case of: if you're going to have the output order, then you
> > should provide for the input to be ordered. *As well as* unordered.
> Sorry,
* Philip Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [28 Sep 2000 21:19]:
> On 27 Sep 2000, at 23:48, iain truskett wrote:
> > So surely you'd want %HTTP (the input headers) to also be an array
> > rather than a hash, since they'd be required in order as well?
> I don't care, be
an ordered array of keys) but you can probably see where
I'm aiming at now? Extensibility.)
[...]
> Ziggy, are you interested in this idea enough (at all?) to stick a
> note about the 'header' function into the RFC? Or should I RFC it
> separately?
I'd say RFC it separately.
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* Philip Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [27 Sep 2000 22:51]:
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, iain truskett wrote:
> > Is order important for @HEADERS? Would it be better to have %HEADERS
> > instead that does such auto-formatting?
> In my opinion, no, for the reasons given before. Ha
ve more than just a syntactic use. They provide a
visual aid to the delineation of blocks.
Anyway. That was my irrelevant rant for the day. Erm. I'll go away now.
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S
instead that does such auto-formatting?
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* Adam Turoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [26 Sep 2000 17:15]:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:02:02PM +1100, iain truskett wrote:
> > Is there much point having a lightweight CGI module? If you say 'I want
> > it to load quickly', I say 'get mod_perl'.
> There'
ld cgi-lib.pl library), but that would be better
of being placed in the CGI module, methinks (and probably is in there
anyway --- I've not looked at the shiny new v.3 CGI module as of yet).
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> people think?
> I think that the current CGI module functionality should perhaps be
> maintained, though not necessarily in its current form...
Yes. It'd be far better having the XML stuff working in a more
'first class' fashion than assorted h2() etc f
ick is getting the average programmer
to actually read the documentation. Hence, it's mostly a case of putting
more 'practical' examples of its use in the manual.
Of course, I would be interested in seeing a version of Q::S that worked
with threads and/or multiprocesses.
I'll
A character with the ASCII value of zero. It's used by C
> and some Unix syscalls to terminate strings, but Perl allows
> strings to contain a null.
> NULL LIST:
> A list value with zero elements, represented in Perl by ().
And a NULL SCAL
* Tom Christiansen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [21 Sep 2000 05:49]:
> > no strict;
> > $a = undef;
> > $b = null;
> Perl already has a null string: "".
Looks more like a string of no length than a null string.
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itself.
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Define the universe. Give three examples.
^0 }, [[],[]], @numbers;
Damian writes:
> Note that the original @_-based *didn't* need one, because ->'s are
> optional between ] and [.
My apologies for any confusion arising. If the RFC goes another
'developing' version, would it be possible for you to include the ^0
based one?
* Jonathan Scott Duff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20 Sep 2000 07:43]:
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 07:31:35AM +1100, iain truskett wrote:
[...]
> > $sorted = reduce { push @{ ^0 [ ^1 % 2 ] }, ^1; ^0 }, [[],[]], @numbers;
> I guess I'm confused with the syntax. Shouldn't the
cond array, and even numbers (i.e. x % 2 == 0) in the first one
(the zeroth array). Then return the new (filled out) pair of arrays for
the next number.
I like it.
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C<'> and C<">.
Why and how?
> * Remove C as a synonym for C
Why?
> Some of these are mine, some of them are ideas I remember seeing
> someone else mention, but I don't see RFCs for. Am I missing them, or
> do they need to be written up?
They do --
o come up with the idea.
How often have you ever said "Hey! That's cool! Wish I'd thought of
that!"?
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That's why I am using Vim. -- Anonymous.
* Jarkko Hietaniemi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [14 Aug 2000 00:15]:
> On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 06:54:10PM +1000, iain truskett wrote:
> > * Jeremy Howard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [13 Aug 2000 17:28]:
[...]
> > > Personally, I like 'weave' rather than 'zip'. I'm h
> just that no-one's got any idea what I'm trying to say?
I glanced through it and thought it seemed fine. If people think
something is stupid, they'll email. If people want something changed,
they'll email. If something is good, they won't =)
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breviated month name according to the current locale.
%B The full month name according to the current locale.
%c The preferred date and time representation for the current locale.
Note the 'current locale' bit. That takes care of Freitag, Vendredi or
Kinyoobi (in UTF-
example:
lang is English => qw/January February .../
lang is German => qw/Januar Februar .../
lang is Japanese => qw/ichigatsu nigatsu .../ (only in UTF-16, natch)
Just think of the amount of instantly translated software!
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;
> > not like at the moment :
> > foraeach (@array) { print $_};
> This I totally disagree with. The use of an array in scalar context
> does (and I believe should always) return it's length. It is one of
> Perl's single most usful features (in my expirience)...
ppropriately. The
> change bars should also be distinct to the reader of the raw POD.
Now, does someone fancy doing this to the various RFCs that have changed
so far?
cheers!
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* William Setzer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [09 Aug 2000 00:27]:
> iain truskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> > If so, why? (Possibly cite the code.)
> Because it's more aesthetic (and useful) for me to see:
> open '/afs/bp.ncsu.edu/path/to/no_such_file'
t; now? Hands up...)
A call to people:
Who here has actually used something other than a constant '1' in a
package?
If so, why? (Possibly cite the code.)
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