Re: Fwd: Re: Pugs 6.2.0 released.

2005-05-09 Thread Rob Kinyon
What's really odd is that document links to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_disjunction which ends up stating that chained xors are associative and commutative, meaning that instead of acting as one(), it counts parity. Rob On 5/9/05, David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jonathan Wo

Re: Fwd: Re: Pugs 6.2.0 released.

2005-05-09 Thread David Landgren
Jonathan Worthington wrote: "Juerd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You both use "iff". What does that mean? I believe it's to be read "if and only if". Yes, but that doesn't explain what it means. Rather than me try to explain it (poorly)... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_and_only_if David

Re: Fwd: Re: Pugs 6.2.0 released.

2005-05-06 Thread Jonathan Worthington
"Juerd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You both use "iff". What does that mean? I believe it's to be read "if and only if". Jonathan

Re: Fwd: Re: Pugs 6.2.0 released.

2005-05-06 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 02:04:45AM +0200, Juerd wrote: : Juerd skribis 2005-05-07 1:23 (+0200): : > Perl 5's perlop says: "It cannot short circuit, of course." Can : > someone explain why it cannot? : : I was confused. It is entirely obvious why it can't. On the other hand, one(...) semantics ca

Re: Fwd: Re: Pugs 6.2.0 released.

2005-05-06 Thread Juerd
Juerd skribis 2005-05-07 1:23 (+0200): > Perl 5's perlop says: "It cannot short circuit, of course." Can > someone explain why it cannot? I was confused. It is entirely obvious why it can't. Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http:/

Re: Fwd: Re: Pugs 6.2.0 released.

2005-05-06 Thread Juerd
Trewth Seeker wrote: > Mark A. Biggar wrote: > > Trewth Seeker wrote: > > > In this case, we are dealing with '^^', a meaningless > > > unpronounceable symbol. Caret caret. > > > Oh, but wait ... we also spell it 'xor', When reading code, it's probably read as xor, but when discussing syntax it

Re: Fwd: Re: Pugs 6.2.0 released.

2005-05-06 Thread Juerd
Here's the same message, with less annoying word wrapping. (Especially useful for mailers that show different levels of quotes in different colours.) Trewth Seeker wrote: > Mark A. Biggar wrote: > > Trewth Seeker wrote: > > > I see here another case of a common erroneous approach to > > > problem

Fwd: Re: Pugs 6.2.0 released.

2005-05-06 Thread Trewth Seeker
Oops, this should have been redirected to perl6-language@perl.org, so I'm doing that now. --- Trewth Seeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 13:15:37 -0700 (PDT) > From: Trewth Seeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Pugs 6.2.0 released. > To: "Mark A. Biggar" <[EMAIL PROTECT