Re: huffman encoding and bit operators

2001-10-08 Thread Bart Lateur
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 11:21:41 -0700 (PDT), esp5 wrote: >> Sure it doesn't pick up everything (late compilation), but in the 1056 files >> I have there I had exactly 7 occurances of bit operators. This does not >> impress me enough to use valuable punctuation. > >Now, I just tried it on perl5.6.1,

huffman encoding and bit operators

2001-10-04 Thread esp5
Picked up from slashdot: > I really dislike having a concatenation operator that's a valid identifier > character. There's just no reason for it. > And I don't completely buy the excuse that we're running out of punctuation > characters. If you're going to jumble some of them up and talk about