On 1 Oct 2002 at 18:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > all text up to, but not including the string "union".
> >
> > rule getstuffbeforeunion { (.*?) union | (.*) }
> >
> > "a union" => "a "
> > "b" => "b"
>
> hmm... well, it works, but its not very efficient. It basically
> scans the whole st
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:22:02PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Last year at JAOO I stumbled on this thing called Subject-Oriented
> Programming which looked interesting.
There are a bunch of "advanced" programming techniques like this that
all fit under the same umbrella:
* Subject Ori
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 05:04:29PM -0700, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 02:49 PM, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> >Which implies, I assume, that "interface" is not the default state of
> >a class method, e.g. we do need something like "method foo() is
> >interface { ... }" t
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 04:01:26PM -0700, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> >On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 03:43:22PM -0400, Trey Harris wrote:
> >>You want something like
> >>
> >> class Car is Vehicle renames(drive => accel)
> >>is MP3_Player renames(drive => mp3_drive);
>
> I *really* like this,
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 02:49:49PM -0700, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> >>My musing is that the behavior of a class in different contexts is
> >>itself an interface, in the sense of being a contract between a
> >>class/subclass and it's users
> >
> >Ah HA! Contract! Return values can be enforce via a
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 10:39:17AM +0300, Markus Laire wrote:
> On 1 Oct 2002 at 18:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > > > all text up to, but not including the string "union".
> > >
> > > rule getstuffbeforeunion { (.*?) union | (.*) }
> > >
> > > "a union" => "a "
> > > "b" => "b"
> >
> > hmm
On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 03:11 AM, Andy Wardley wrote:
> There are a bunch of "advanced" programming techniques like this that
> all fit under the same umbrella:
>
> * Subject Oriented Programming (IBM)
> * Aspect Oriented Programming (Xerox Parc)
> * Composition Filters
> * Ada
> On 1 Oct 2002 at 18:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > > > all text up to, but not including the string "union".
How about (Perl6)
/(.*?) union {$pos -= length('union');}/
This gets everything up to and including the first instance of 'union',
then gets rid of the bit at the end that w
