On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 00:17, Uri Guttman wrote:
use warnings should be here too.
[...]
i like _$method better.
[...]
i don't like using = like that.
Uri, you're ripping the guy's code to shreds over minor points of
syntactic sugar... I seem to remember that Perl's moto isn't There's
only one
On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 10:34, Aaron Sherman wrote:
On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 00:17, Uri Guttman wrote:
use warnings should be here too.
[...]
i like _$method better.
[...]
i don't like using = like that.
Uri, you're ripping the guy's code to shreds over minor points of
syntactic sugar...
Bob Rogers said:
easier to add command-line options through class inheritance and reuse
than it is to document them. I have attached an early version of the
Hm, I've been using Getopt::Declare for a lot of
command-line scripts at work. I'm not a webhead,
I do command line tools, so command
SQ == Sean Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SQ On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 10:34, Aaron Sherman wrote:
On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 00:17, Uri Guttman wrote:
use warnings should be here too.
[...]
i like _$method better.
[...]
i don't like using = like that.
Uri, you're
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Uri Guttman wrote:
SQ == Sean Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SQ While making recommendations on style can be useful, particularly
SQ in the cases where it can reduce the possibility of bugs, I would
SQ agree that approaching the main request of the poster first might
SQ
This seems like something that would be fun to solve with Perl:
RAY: I have, written on a piece of paper in front of me, a word that
is plural and also masculine. Now, I know we don't have masculine and
feminine words in English the way we do in Italian or French. But,
we do have
See my answer after the original message.
It uses Perl, but the minimum amount.
It only took a few seconds to do it the natural way
(natural if you are used to grep, comm and other Unix utilities).
I used these utilities in part because Chris suggested their use,
and in part because I think this
Dear Chris,
The word I have written here is [...] masculine, and
ends in s. Not only that, but you change this word from plural to
singular and from masculine to feminine, all by adding an s to it!
[...]
If the word in question is in /usr/share/dict/words, then it should be
one
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:09:59PM -0400, Tolkin, Steve wrote:
*
Clearly * is feminine and singular and
I think that does have a masculine connotation.
That is not the correct answer. :)
There's a much more common word pair, where the singular
Dear Chris,
I wrote:
|| % perl -wMstrict -lne 'use vars qq.%x.; (my $y = $_) =~ s/ss$/s/; \
|| print if $x{$y}; $x{$_}++;' /usr/dict/words
|| ass
|| buss
|| canvass
|| discuss
|| Douglass
|| hiss
|| %
[...]
The Lingua::EN::Inflect approach would obviously not
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Tolkin, Steve wrote:
If the word in question is in /usr/share/dict/words
Big if, it turns out.
I cheated, the answer is here. DON'T READ THIS IF YOU HATE SPOILERS:
http://www.cartalk.com/content/puzzler/transcripts/200346/answer.html
Looking back at my /usr/share/dict/words,
Hello,
I'm looking for recommendations for a website creation and management
tool (written in Perl of course).
Here are some thoughts on what I'd like it to be:
Open Source
Written in Perl (or mostly Perl)
Well documented
Browser based content management GUI
Template and CSS driven design
On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 15:43, Chris Devers wrote:
Looking back at my /usr/share/dict/words, the singular
form of the word doesn't show up
I find that kind of hard to believe... What unix are you running?
Anyway, here's my submission (I initially envisioned some xargs/grep
stuff at the end but
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking for recommendations for a website creation and management
tool (written in Perl of course).
Here are some thoughts on what I'd like it to be:
Open Source
Written in Perl (or mostly Perl)
Well documented
Browser based content management GUI
Template and
Using your script Jeremy, my dictionary (Solaris 5.8) came up with one
that I like
Ogres-Ogress
:-)
--Mark
On Wednesday, September 08, 2004 4:17 PM, Jeremy Muhlich wrote:
grep 'ss$' /usr/share/dict/words | sed -e s/ss// | \
cat - /usr/share/dict/words | sort | uniq -c | grep ' 2'
That
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any useful recommendations would be appreciated.
What kind of sites? What are you hoping to do with the CMS engine?
Three that come to mind are Bricolage, MovableType, and Slash, but these
systems have very significant differences, such that a site that
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Jeremy Muhlich wrote:
On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 15:43, Chris Devers wrote:
Looking back at my /usr/share/dict/words, the singular
form of the word doesn't show up
I find that kind of hard to believe...
That was a think-o -- the singular is there, the plural isn't.
What unix are you
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Cox, Mark wrote:
Using your script Jeremy, my dictionary (Solaris 5.8) came up with one
that I like
Ogres-Ogress
Ya know, Shrek and Fiona meet both of these solutions to the puzzle :-)
heh...
--
Chris Devers
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Chris Devers wrote:
I spent last night reading the entire Oxford English Dictionary,
and I only found one example for which this works.
That was a *very* long night.
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On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 16:43:06 -0400 (EDT), Chris Devers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any useful recommendations would be appreciated.
What kind of sites? What are you hoping to do with the CMS engine?
Three that come to mind are Bricolage,
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, joe wrote:
MovableType fails the Open Source test.
Ahh, good point, I forgot about that.
That still leaves at least Bricolage Slash though, and I know there
are several others (Mason, etc).
More info is needed to help figure out which one is appropriate.
--
Chris Devers
From: Sean Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 11:25:07 -0400
Although I haven't personally come across the need to have multiple
scripts have re-used command line options yet (other than a few old
historic cases), this sounds like an interesting project for handling
From: Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 00:17:15 -0400
BR == Bob Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
BR use strict;
use warnings should be here too.
Thank you; that sounds like a good idea. (Though usually my main
interest in manipulating perl warnings is
BR == Bob Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
BR sub BEGIN {
BR no strict 'refs';
BR for my $method (qw(option_definers additional_options
BR man_p help_p usage_p)) {
BR my $field = '_' . $method;
BRi like _$method better.
BR I don't; it's harder to see.
i find . hard to see
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