Re: purge: opposite of grep

2002-12-06 Thread Tim Conrow
Michael Lazzaro wrote: I worry that C sounds too much like something class-related, and would confuse people. What about C or something? Decent thesaurus entries for include: assign, classify, comb, compartmentalize, discriminate, distribute, group, order, segregate, sift, winnow, amputate, c

Re: p6d gatewayed by nntp.perl.org?

2002-12-03 Thread Tim Conrow
Simon Cozens wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Conrow) writes: >I'm not seeing it. My problem, or is it not being mirrored yet? I'm reading it via NNTP. Right, I've got it now. Don't know why I didn't see it there before. -- Tim

p6d gatewayed by nntp.perl.org?

2002-12-02 Thread Tim Conrow
I'm not seeing it. My problem, or is it not being mirrored yet? -- Tim

Re: General Feelings on Apoc 3

2001-10-09 Thread Tim Conrow
Brent Dax wrote: > > If we have 'and', 'or' and 'xor', can we have 'dor' (defined or) to be a > low-precedence version of this? Oh man. If we've gone so far as 'dor', why not make it 'doh' :-) print stomach_state @beer,@donuts doh "burp!!!" -- -- Tim Conrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: NaN semantics

2001-10-09 Thread Tim Conrow
here was a long thread that touched on this in the context of tristate logic in discussion of and around RFC 263, I think. -- -- Tim Conrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: NaN semantics

2001-10-07 Thread Tim Conrow
behavior wasn't consistent > with that. Not that I think NaN != NaN is a particularly good idea, but > consistency with other languages may be. If NaN != NaN, then his > example is correct. Thank you Brent. Brevity and clarity; what concepts! I must try them sometime. -- Tim Conrow

NaN semantics

2001-10-06 Thread Tim Conrow
hat is ugly, non-intuitive and ugly; and non-intuitive too. But inconsistency with a long accepted standard is also ungood. Perhaps we need to write it thus: print "Inflation rate: " and $inflation = +<> while $inflation.isnan; or some such? -- Tim Conrow

Re: Math functions? (Particularly transcendental ones)

2001-09-13 Thread Tim Conrow
1(x) = ln(1 + x) expm1(x) = exp(x) - 1 to deal accurately and quickly with the special case where x<<1. This may not be useful in an environment of pseudo-infinite precision, unless speed begins to matter alot. Maybe they could be called automagically when the compiler sees something like the

Re: RFC 258 (v1) Distinguish packed binary data from printable strings

2000-09-19 Thread Tim Conrow
Tim Conrow wrote: > > Tom Christiansen wrote: > > Perhaps what you're truly looking for is a generalized tainting mechanism. > > Sounds cool, but I have only the vaguest idea what you (may) mean. Pointers? > RFCs? Examples? Hints? Sorry for the clutter, but I d

Re: RFC 258 (v1) Distinguish packed binary data from printable strings

2000-09-19 Thread Tim Conrow
Tom Christiansen wrote: > Perhaps what you're truly looking for is a generalized tainting mechanism. Sounds cool, but I have only the vaguest idea what you (may) mean. Pointers? RFCs? Examples? Hints? -- -- Tim Conrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: RFC 258 (v1) Distinguish packed binary data from printablestrings

2000-09-19 Thread Tim Conrow
nly cases I've been able to think of are > > JAPHs or code samples. > > "too painful" is, of course, a judgment call. I do use the > read/unpack/modify/pack/print cycle a fair amount dealing with image data. > I guess I'd say working around RFC 258 might be an

Re: RFC 258 (v1) Distinguish packed binary data from printablestrings

2000-09-19 Thread Tim Conrow
(confession: I forgot about "U" in v1 of the RFC)), C, C, string-context bitwise ops plus C and C create "packed strings". If Unicode is commonly acquired or manipulated by any of those and meant to stay human readable, then there may be a conflict. -- -- Tim Conrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: RFC 258 (v1) Distinguish packed binary data from printable strings

2000-09-19 Thread Tim Conrow
convey that the additional checking is only done when explicitly invoked via C and/or C. Perhaps I should make that more explicit. In a sense, it's already proposed to be sort of an extension, just one which is provided to everyone. Everyone's short of tuits, but I'd love to see some hint of where you think this causes problems. -- -- Tim Conrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] |