On Mar 19, 2004, at 11:58 AM, Karl Brodowsky wrote:
just for the Emacs-users among you:
C-x 8 < yields « and C-x 8 > yields ».
Nice to know, even though my Emacs only displays empty squares for
these characters. I have yet to figure out how to get it to properly
display Unicode (I'm using 21.3.5
> -Original Message-
> From: Luke Palmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Austin Hastings writes:
> > > From: Luke Palmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Joe Gottman writes:
> > > > 2) Do all of the xor variants have the property that
> > > > chained calls return true if exactly one input
> >
I'm not sure that having quaternary logic in Perl 6 is necessarily a good
idea. Why stop only at four states?
--
... though the Japanese must be the most stupid people... I'm sure I
read somewhere that Tokyo has the densest population in the world...
- Gid Holyoake, sdm.
Austin Hastings wrote:
Granted. But some pitaph is going to come along and find a novel new use for
> zip outside of loops. And then it's going to be in an expression of some kind,
where the parser won't know what to do...
%hash = @keys  @values;
Oh, and it's "petaQ" not "pitaph".
Hey...wait
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Simon Cozens
>
> I'm not sure that having quaternary logic in Perl 6 is necessarily a good
> idea. Why stop only at four states?
Indeed:
undef, unset (disagreeable undef, a la NaN), nocare (always match
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Austin Hastings) writes:
> > I'm not sure that having quaternary logic in Perl 6 is necessarily a good
> > idea. Why stop only at four states?
>
> Total about twelve possible "states" plus junctions, of which eight or nine
> would be 'useful', and only three would be knowingly u
> -Original Message-
> From: Damian Conway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Austin Hastings wrote:
>
> > Granted. But some pitaph is going to come along and find a
> > novel new use for zip outside of loops. And then it's going
> > to be in an expression of some kind, where the parser wo
Austin Hastings wrote:
Oh, and it's "petaQ" not "pitaph".
Umm, no. It's "pitaph", vice "japh". (Better than "gdtsfhogwaph", certainly.)
Oh, then in that case:
You called me a "pain in the ass"?
I should kill you were you stand!!
;-)
BTW, how did you generate that Â, or did y
Dear All,
I think that the broken bar is dangerous. Why:
It can be mixed up with the normal bar |. In some fonts it looks the same.
And to many people it is not 100% clear, which of the two bars is the broken
one and which not.
Off course it is possible to avoid this, but that is not solving the
At 9:19 PM + 3/20/04, Simon Cozens wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Austin Hastings) writes:
> I'm not sure that having quaternary logic in Perl 6 is necessarily a good
> idea. Why stop only at four states?
Total about twelve possible "states" plus junctions, of which eight or nine
would be 'usefu
Well, maybe we should use yen (¥) instead. It even looks like a zipper.
(Of course, we'll leave out the little problem that half the people
in Japan would read it as a backslash wannabe...that's not really
a problem since a zipper would only be used where an operator is
expected, and backslash is
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