Re: FW: Periodic Table of the Operators

2004-06-08 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:52:32PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > My console can be any of several platforms - in the last couple of weeks > it has been a Linux box, a Windows PC, a Mac, a Sun workstation, and a > real vt320 attached to a Sun. My mail sits on a hosted Linux box. To > read i

Re: FW: Periodic Table of the Operators

2004-06-08 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:30:51AM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:52:32PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > But when I'm using a > > terminal session, I have found that the only practical way of getting > > consistent behaviou

Re: Periodic Table of the Operators

2004-06-08 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Tue 08 Jun 2004 12:35, David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:30:51AM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:52:32PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > > But when I'm using a > > > terminal session,

Apocalypse 6: IDs of subroutine wrappers should be objects

2004-06-08 Thread Ingo Blechschmidt
Hello, quoting Apocalypse 6: > You may ask a subroutine to wrap itself up in another subroutine in > place, so that calls to the original are intercepted and interpreted by > the wrapper, even if access is only through the reference: > > $id = $subref.wrap({ > # preprocessing here >

Re: Apocalypse 6: IDs of subroutine wrappers should be objects

2004-06-08 Thread Matthew Walton
Ingo Blechschmidt wrote: Hello, quoting Apocalypse 6: You may ask a subroutine to wrap itself up in another subroutine in place, so that calls to the original are intercepted and interpreted by the wrapper, even if access is only through the reference: $id = $subref.wrap({ # preprocessing

Re: Apocalypse 6: IDs of subroutine wrappers should be objects

2004-06-08 Thread Luke Palmer
Ingo Blechschmidt writes: > One should be able to unwrap $subref using > $id.unwrap(); > > Or, given $id, it'd be cool if you could get the original $subref: > my $origsubref = $id.sub(); > > Additionally, $id could coerce to an ID number in numeric context, so > $subref.unwrap($id

Re: Apocalypse 6: IDs of subroutine wrappers should be objects

2004-06-08 Thread David Storrs
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 01:08:13PM -, Ingo Blechschmidt wrote: > Hello, > > quoting Apocalypse 6: > > You may ask a subroutine to wrap itself up in another subroutine in > > place, so that calls to the original are intercepted and interpreted by > > the wrapper, even if access is only through

Re: Apocalypse 6: IDs of subroutine wrappers should be objects

2004-06-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, David Storrs wrote: > On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 01:08:13PM -, Ingo Blechschmidt wrote: > > Hello, > > > > quoting Apocalypse 6: > > > You may ask a subroutine to wrap itself up in another subroutine in > > > place, so that calls to the original are intercepted and interpreted

Re: This fortnight's summary

2004-06-08 Thread Leopold Toetsch
The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: "PIO_unix_pipe()" Leo's implemented a "PIO_unix_pipe()" method which allows you to run an external program and capture the results with a Parrot IO handle. He doctored the "open" opcode to use it pipe = open "/bin/ls -l", "-|" While that's right r

Re: FW: Periodic Table of the Operators

2004-06-08 Thread Juerd
Tim Bunce skribis 2004-06-08 11:30 (+0100): > I can recommend PuTTY for windows. Secure, small[1], fast, featureful > and free: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ > [1] So small it easily fits on a floppy. I keep a copy on my USB memory drive. So small that even on modem lines, you