Re: Pike 7.4

2003-01-09 Thread Chris Dutton
On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 05:36 AM, Damian Conway wrote: Chris Dutton wrote: @ages[*] = $today - %date_of_birth{@names}.values[*] Well done. Thanks for working that out, Chris. And, in the process, confirming my sense that vector ops are a better solution here. ;-) Glad I could cont

Re: Pike 7.4

2003-01-09 Thread Damian Conway
Chris Dutton wrote: For example, I'm struggling to see how one could use the [*] to do this: @names = «Gödel Escher Bach»; @ages = $today »-« %date_of_birth{@names} While I agree that hyper-operators are the better way to go(though I can see advantages either way), I was bored, s

Re: Pike 7.4

2003-01-09 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mr. Nobody) writes: > We can't use « or ». Not only are they impossible to type on some editors, > but they're different in CP437 (the DOS charset), Latin1, and UTF8. We've done this. -- I've looked at the listing, and it's right! -- Joel Halpern

Re: Pike 7.4

2003-01-08 Thread Mr. Nobody
--- Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Dutton wrote: > > > Given discussions about "hyper" operators in the past, I found this > > rather interesting in the release notes. > > > > http://pike.idonex.com/download/notes/7.4.10.xml > > Interesting, but I still feel that vectorized op

Re: Pike 7.4

2003-01-08 Thread Chris Dutton
On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 11:20 PM, Damian Conway wrote: Chris Dutton wrote: Given discussions about "hyper" operators in the past, I found this rather interesting in the release notes. http://pike.idonex.com/download/notes/7.4.10.xml Interesting, but I still feel that vectorized operat

Re: Pike 7.4

2003-01-08 Thread Damian Conway
Chris Dutton wrote: Given discussions about "hyper" operators in the past, I found this rather interesting in the release notes. http://pike.idonex.com/download/notes/7.4.10.xml Interesting, but I still feel that vectorized operators give more flexibility. For example, I'm struggling to see ho