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Open Source Convention (aka The Perl Conference (or reverse()))
Date: 07/22/2002
Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Grande Ballroom A
I still feel this adds yet another layer of inconsistency and confusion.
I can't look at a piece of code and know what it does, without referring
up N lines to the top of the scripts.
How is the infinite loop problem any different from other Halting problems?
Karl
Christian Soeller wrote:
>
At 8:30 AM -0400 7/16/02, Karl Glazebrook wrote:
>I still feel this adds yet another layer of inconsistency and
>confusion. I can't look at a piece of code and know what it does,
>without referring up N lines to the top of the scripts.
>
>How is the infinite loop problem any different from other
I was reading through the Monastery, and I noticed a node (about the
line between what's considered Perl discussion and what's off-topic)
that had this regex in it:
m:iw/how [do[es]?|can] [I|one] @tasks in @non_perl_languages/
(Yes, people are already using Perl 6 regexes in text. :^) )
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 10:52:58PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:
> Don't forget Apocalypse 5.
>
> Personally I believe the elegant and thorough integration of regular
> expressions and backtracking into the large-scale logic of an
> application is one of the most radical things about Perl 6.
How does o
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Brent Dax wrote:
> I was reading through the Monastery, and I noticed a node (about the
> line between what's considered Perl discussion and what's off-topic)
> that had this regex in it:
>
> m:iw/how [do[es]?|can] [I|one] @tasks in @non_perl_languages/
>
> (Yes, peop
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 05:42:18PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> I don't know how Java and Python handle Unicode.
Java has always been 100% Unicode from the ground up; it's in the spec.
The fundamental char type is a 16-bit value, you can use any "letterlike"
characters in identifiers, there's
Long have I been a fan of giving pure Perl modules the power to change the rules and
create a more built-in look, feel, and functionality. So, of course, I love %MY, I
love real named parameters, I love the ability to create iterators that look just like
native control structures. But while la
