Re: complex numbers

2005-01-11 Thread Big and Blue
It's me wrote: > I am very happy that Python included *native* complex number support. And I have always been happy that FORTRAN supports them. I really like Python's notion of having just one data type: the duck. So have you considered using Python for your problem? --

Re: turn text lines into a list

2005-06-28 Thread Big and Blue
Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > >> @corenames=qw( >> rb_basic_islamic >> sq1_pentagonTile >> sq_arc501Tile >> sq_arc503Tile >> ); > > > Impractical to mix code and data, isn't it? Obviously not impractical, given he did it quite easily and succinctly. > chomp( my @corenames = ); > > __DATA__

Re: sizeof(struct timeval)

2006-03-13 Thread Big and Blue
Tony Houghton wrote: > > How safe would I be assuming that > > sizeof(struct timeval) == 2 * sizeof(long) > > is always true on Linux on different architectures? Based on what I was looking at today (well, yesterday now), you might be wrong. I do know that the size of a struct u

Re: sizeof(struct timeval)

2006-03-13 Thread Big and Blue
Big and Blue wrote: > Tony Houghton wrote: >> >> How safe would I be assuming that >> sizeof(struct timeval) == 2 * sizeof(long) >> >> is always true on Linux on different architectures? > >Based on what I was looking at today (well