On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 10:24:32PM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 16:58, Edward Peschko wrote:
>
> > Ok, ok, I'll give you that point ... lets call them 'intimately related' and
> > leave it at that... if you say "3 foo" and your algorithm goes:
> >
> > "3 foo" => 3 => "
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:46:37 -0700, Edward Peschko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You could even say that in the chinese case that if you have
>
> "?$B#3" --> 3 --> "3"
>
> that's a bug. It had *better* turn back into "?$B#3" when you do
> the int to string conversion. That's a internationalizatio
Edward Peschko writes:
> I'd say that that's a caveat of implementation, sort of a side effect
> of handling an error condition. By your criteria there are very few
> inverses - you could say that multiplication isn't an inverse of
> division because of zero, for example.
Err, that's funny, becaus
Richard Proctor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Conflict with "last LOOP"? Hm, the context should be enough to
>> distinguish them, no? (Hey, maybe they can be unified somehow --
>> "last -1" to skip to the penultimate pass through the loop? =P)
>
> That could be generalised, "next +1" skipping
Andrew Rodland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What about BASIC? Aren't all the little kids today raised on BASIC? :)
I don't know about the kids _today_, but for about twenty years
starting circa 1980 most home computers came with exactly one
programming language tool, and it was BASIC -- line-num
Jonathan Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ISAM?
>From the RDBMS world, a kind of index I think, or something along
those lines. MySQL for example has a type of table called MyISAM.
--
$;=sub{$/};@;=map{my($a,$b)=($_,$;);$;=sub{$a.$b->()}}
split//,"[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ --";$\=$ ;-> ();print$/
"Adam D. Lopresto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
>
> The question is whether any of that needs to be core, and I'm
> starting to strongly think it doesn't. I was about to say that perl
> should only go trying to figure out that the file is an
> "JtUO" == Jonadab the Unsightly One <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JtUO> Jonathan Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> ISAM?
>>> From the RDBMS world, a kind of index I think, or something along
JtUO> those lines. MySQL for example has a type of table called MyISAM.
it predates dbms s
On Sep 25, 2004, at 10:27 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 10:01:42PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
: We've also said that MY is a pseudopackage referring to the current
: lexical scope so that you can hand off your lexical scope to someone
: else to read (but not modify, unless you are cur
