Paris Sinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But as soon as a person labels me a minority, and implies that because I
> have been labeled such that I am a rioter, and that my opinions are
> based upon this label, then your choices are to filter me, or to listen
> to me protest.
Then perhaps you
>Could you please start from the assumption that we're all interested in
>supporting the full Unicode space to the greatest degree possible? None
>of us are trying to force an ASCII-only alphabet on anyone (although some
>of us are interested in keeping ASCII-only operations fast and efficient
>s
Paris Sinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> kOn Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Bennett Todd wrote:
>> Someone wrote:
>>> What's the upper bound in a 16bit language? Or does that case just
>>> have to break? "Sorry, you're not European. Please be assimilated
>>> before using this tool. Resistance is futile."
kOn Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Bennett Todd wrote:
> > What's the upper bound in a 16bit language? Or does that case just
> > have to break? "Sorry, you're not European. Please be assimilated
> > before using this tool. Resistance is futile."
>
> Lordie lordie lordie, you're one of the persecuted minorit
2000-09-26-21:56:04 Paris Sinclair:
> A "small" fixed upper bound? It is N that is bounded, that doesn't
> stop it from using N*50 variables to represent N, or N*150
> variables if I'm only matching vs 2 characters.
In big-O notation, the N is the size of the problem; in this case,
it could be th
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Bennett Todd wrote:
> That sounds positively noble when you put it that way. I can
> actually hear choirs of cherubim providing atmosphere.
I heard them also, but I thought it was the radio.
> > And yes, a list of 250 items to store 5 items is HUGE. There is no way to
> > kn
2000-09-26-21:11:53 Paris Sinclair:
> Please keep your fetishes and/or geocentricism to yourself.
They get all ingrown and infested if I don't take 'em out and
air 'em out occasionally:-).
> There is no need to propose that others should share them.
No indeedy! I'm not opposed to i18n support i
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Bennett Todd wrote:
> Yup, I'm a sick little monkey who truly doesn't care about anything
> other than US-ASCII
Please keep your fetishes and/or geocentricism to yourself. There is no
need to propose that others should share them. If Perl is going to exist
into the future, i
2000-09-26-20:29:22 Paris Sinclair:
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Bennett Todd wrote:
> > $hist[ord($_)]++ for split //, $string;
>
> But would technique work with unicode?
Beats me, I've never tried programming against unicode, as I don't
speak any other language than english I don't expect I will
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Bennett Todd wrote:
> 2000-09-26-05:18:57 Paris Sinclair:
> > > (%alphabet) = $string =~ tr/a-z//;
> >
> > also a little more concise (and certainly more efficient...) than
> >
> > %alphabet = map { $_ => eval "\$string =~ tr/$_//" } (a..z);
>
> However, compared t
2000-09-26-05:18:57 Paris Sinclair:
> > (%alphabet) = $string =~ tr/a-z//;
>
> also a little more concise (and certainly more efficient...) than
>
> %alphabet = map { $_ => eval "\$string =~ tr/$_//" } (a..z);
However, compared to say
$hist[ord($_)]++ for split //, $string;
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 09:55:38AM +0100, Richard Proctor wrote:
> > While this may be a fun thing to do - why? what is the application?
>
> I think I said in the RFC, didn't I? It's extending the counting use of tr///
> to allow you to count several d
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 01:55:10PM +0100, Richard Proctor wrote:
> It does not seem to have much to do with tr///, if you want it, why not put it
> in a module with some meaningful name such as histogram()?
Hm. Counting doesn't have much to do with tr///, if you think of it like that.
Now, if y
Simon,
> I think I said in the RFC, didn't I? It's extending the counting use of tr///
> to allow you to count several different letters at once. For instance, letter
> frequencies in text is an important metric for linguists, codebreakers and
> others; think about how you'd get letter frequenc
> From: Bart Lateur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:19:05 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
>
> >(%alphabet) = $string =~ tr/a-z//;
> >
> >Yum.
>
> You want it in a hash? Ooff. Well, maybe that's ok for Perl6.
>
> For Perl5, it would seem to make more sense, to me, to return
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:19:05 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
>(%alphabet) = $string =~ tr/a-z//;
>
>Yum.
You want it in a hash? Ooff. Well, maybe that's ok for Perl6.
For Perl5, it would seem to make more sense, to me, to return a list.
Simply a matter of consistency with the spirit of the rest
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 09:55:38AM +0100, Richard Proctor wrote:
> While this may be a fun thing to do - why? what is the application?
I think I said in the RFC, didn't I? It's extending the counting use of tr///
to allow you to count several different letters at once. For instance, letter
frequ
Simon,
> This has been on the Perl 5 to-do list for ages and ages. The idea is
> that when you're transliterating a bunch of things, you want to know
> how many of each of them matched in your original string.
While this may be a fun thing to do - why? what is the application?
Richard
This and other RFCs are available on the web at
http://dev.perl.org/rfc/
=head1 TITLE
C in array context should return a histogram
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 24 Sep 2000
Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Number: 283
Version: 1
Status: Developi
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