Hi Adrian,
Victor Churchill wrote:
( for comparison Perl can be a minefield, where any of the null
string '', the integer 0, and an undefined value undef are all
false.)
It hardly ever causes problems in Perl land though since all the
'false' values correspond to 'empty' in one way or
Note, the disagreement with awk and perl above for 0 despite my
saying Perl was inspired by awk stems from awk being more subtle about
its treatment of the string 0 being false; it is false when it
comes from user input, e.g. the environment or read from a file, but
as a constant in source
Hi Victor
On 03/10/12 19:27, Victor Churchill wrote:
I recall having fun with these after reading a chapter about them in a
Martin Gardner book, I'm sure.
Yes, he describes them in one of his books - highly recommended.
Hi Tim,
Victor Churchill wrote:
I recall having fun with these after reading a chapter about them in
a Martin Gardner book, I'm sure.
Yes, he describes them in one of his books - highly recommended.
Hi,
Quite a lot this time, so I'll keep them brief...
A couple more I forgot...
D.J. Bernstein's netstrings and an extension of them by Zed Shaw, tagged
netstrings, that allows the same nested data structures as JSON to be
encoded. http://cr.yp.to/proto/netstrings.txt http://tnetstrings.org/
On 5 October 2012 10:15, Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk wrote:
IMHO it's a shame the latter go for `true' and `false' for Booleans, and
the Python `reference implementation' laxly takes anything other than
`true' to be false.
..ooOO(( should have picked up on this at the pub...))
Hi Victor,
IMHO it's a shame the latter go for `true' and `false' for Booleans,
and the Python `reference implementation' laxly takes anything other
than `true' to be false.
Doesn't that position lead to a huge excluded middle, where values are
neither true nor false?
Yes, but then any
Hi Terry,
Terry, what was that program Paul was noisily playing with; the signal
generator thingy. Is that public or something internal to work?
Here it is http://www.psychosynth.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Repository.
Ah, http://www.psychosynth.com/index.php/What_is_Psychosynth%3F says
it's
On 5 October 2012 18:09, Adrian Howard adri...@quietstars.com wrote:
On 5 October 2012 10:35, Victor Churchill victorchurch...@gmail.com
wrote:
[snip]
( for comparison Perl can be a minefield, where any of the null string
'',
the integer 0, and an undefined value undef are all false.)
On Wednesday 03 Oct 2012 17:03:10 Terry Coles wrote:
On Wednesday 03 Oct 2012 13:02:02 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Terry, what was that program Paul was noisily playing with; the signal
generator thingy. Is that public or something internal to work?
I think it was called psychosynth and I saw
Hi,
Quite a lot this time, so I'll keep them brief...
Terry, what was that program Paul was noisily playing with; the signal
generator thingy. Is that public or something internal to work?
Astro, a file manager for Android.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.metago.astro
Scala
On Wednesday 03 Oct 2012 13:02:02 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Terry, what was that program Paul was noisily playing with; the signal
generator thingy. Is that public or something internal to work?
I think it was called psychosynth and I saw him installing it from a PPA on
Lubuntu. However, all I
Hi Ralph all,
On 3 October 2012 13:02, Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk wrote:
A quick video introduction to the hexaflexagon. Tim brought a `back of
the envelope' one along last night.
https://plus.google.com/109197758463316568589/posts/1AM3Md56fUS
I recall having fun with these
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