Re: Humorous but serious article

2008-08-07 Thread Todd Olson
Hi >See my latest creation at <http://www.dlugosz.com/Perl6/web/APL.html> A "modern" decendent of APL is J http://www.jsoftware.com/ http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/FrontPage Regards, Todd Olson

Re: Comments on S32/Numeric#Complex

2009-12-17 Thread Todd Olson
with numbers where the range of $angle is something other than -¼ ..^ ¼, either because you want the branch cut somewhere else ( 0 ..^ 2¼ ) or you are on some other sheet ( ¼ ..^ 3¼ ) Does the above proposal stand in the way of this sort of work? Regards, Todd Olson

Re: Comments on S32/Numeric#Complex

2009-12-17 Thread Todd Olson
ot; with a unicode synonym "É"" be too obtuse? Anything wrong with ".angle"? In physics and electrical engineering we often speak of the "phase" Regards, Todd Olson

Re: Comments on S32/Numeric#Complex

2009-12-17 Thread Todd Olson
if we really want Perl6 to automatically convert 4/8 to 1/2 and 51/68 to 3/4 internally So if you mean that we should have access to the implementation details to see if we have 4/8 rather than 1/2, then I'm with you. Regards, Todd Olson

Re: newline as statement terminator

2003-02-06 Thread Todd Olson
At 01:57 +0100 2003/02/04, Stéphane Payrard wrote: >In the tradition of Perl concision, I would like newline to be a >statement terminator everywhere it can: that is when > a) the parser expects an operator > _and_ b) we are not in the middle of a parenthesised expression. > IMO this would

Re: threads? - better metaphors

2010-10-13 Thread Todd Olson
e organizing meme http://9p.cat-v.org/faq The 'Spin' verification tool and it's history are *very* interesting also http://swtch.com/spin/ Note that many of the people doing 'go' were the ones that did Plan9 Regards, Todd Olson PS I'd really like to have the

Re: Tweaking junctions

2010-10-26 Thread Todd Olson
On 2010-Oct-25, at 15:14, Damian Conway wrote: > Yes, Ted Z. pointed out to me that, as the name of this construct, > "every" has ambiguity and synonym issues. Other possibilities are: > >select(@values) < one(3..7) >those(@values) < one(3..7) >whichever(@values) < one(3..7) >ite