Re: Pair notation for number radix

2007-12-06 Thread brian d foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Smylers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > brian d foy writes: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Larry Wall > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 08:28:48AM -0800, brian d foy wrote: > > > > > > : In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Larry Wal

[OT][SPAM] Re: Pair notation for number radix

2007-12-06 Thread Paul Hodges
This is another great example of why I love this list. :o] I live in GA, so far out in the boonies that I can't get cable or broadband at *all* except for by satellite. I've stopped trying to explain what I do, because I start saying things like this, and they glaze and visibly regret it, lol

Re: Pair notation for number radix

2007-12-05 Thread Smylers
brian d foy writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Larry Wall > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 08:28:48AM -0800, brian d foy wrote: > > > > : In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Larry Wall > > : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : > > : > : Later in the "Literals" section

Re: Pair notation for number radix

2007-12-05 Thread brian d foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 08:28:48AM -0800, brian d foy wrote: > : In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Larry Wall > : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : > : > : Later in the "Literals" section of S02, there's a chart of the > : > : cor

Re: Pair notation for number radix

2007-12-04 Thread Ryan Richter
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 07:39:16AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 03:01:06PM -0600, David Green wrote: > > What happened to the suggestion of using ` to designate units? > > It's kinda caught between two other notions. On the one hand, > we're trying to reserve ` for user defi

Re: Pair notation for number radix

2007-12-04 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 08:28:48AM -0800, brian d foy wrote: : In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Larry Wall : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : : > : Later in the "Literals" section of S02, there's a chart of the : > : corresponding forms for fat arrow, pair, and paren notation. It has : > : : > :a

Re: Pair notation for number radix

2007-12-04 Thread brian d foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : Later in the "Literals" section of S02, there's a chart of the > : corresponding forms for fat arrow, pair, and paren notation. It has > : > :a => 'foo' :a :a() > : > : That looks like it might mean that thes

Re: Pair notation for number radix

2007-12-04 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 4 Dec 2007, at 16:19, Andy Armstrong wrote: my $amp = '&'; # No unit, plain text my $body = "$amp"html; # gets & Per http://search.cpan.org/~andya/String-Smart/ I should say. -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: Pair notation for number radix

2007-12-04 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 4 Dec 2007, at 15:39, Larry Wall wrote: It's kinda caught between two other notions. On the one hand, we're trying to reserve ` for user definition, in part because it's so difficult to tell from ' in many fonts so we're avoiding it for standard usage. On the other hand, it's not clear that

Re: Pair notation for number radix

2007-12-04 Thread Larry Wall
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 03:01:06PM -0600, David Green wrote: > On 10/6/07, brian d foy wrote: >> That looks like it might mean that these are corresponding forms: >>8 => 377:8<377>:8(377) >> >> Now, if I can do that, what happens to the pair form in a hash composer >> when I want the ke

Re: Pair notation for number radix

2007-12-03 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 04:00:18PM -0500, brian d foy wrote: : This is basically the same question I had about file test operators : earlier : (http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.language/2007/04/msg27415.htm : l). I never got an answer on my syntax question and the discussion went : off to

Re: Pair notation for number radix

2007-10-07 Thread David Green
On 10/6/07, brian d foy wrote: That looks like it might mean that these are corresponding forms: 8 => 377:8<377>:8(377) Now, if I can do that, what happens to the pair form in a hash composer when I want the key of '8' and the value of :10<377>? What happened to the suggestion of us

Pair notation for number radix

2007-10-06 Thread brian d foy
This is basically the same question I had about file test operators earlier (http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.language/2007/04/msg27415.htm l). I never got an answer on my syntax question and the discussion went off to talk about file tests instead of pair notation. >From S02 "The genera