Michael W Thelen writes:
Smylers wrote:
I hadn't heard of [babycart] before this thread, and I'm a native
English speaker.
I haven't heard baby cart much either... I would probably say baby
carriage (I'm from the USA).
4 syllables.
With half the number of syllabes, babycart is
Better example:
bash-2.05$ perl -le 'print localtime'; perl -le 'print @{[localtime]}'
9151013610641931
9 15 10 13 6 106 4 193 1
Greg
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From: Chasecreek Systemhouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 9:30 AM
To: fwp@perl.org
Subject: Re: Naming
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:29:38 -0400, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
On 7/7/06, Jerrad Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
perl -le 'print @{[time]}'
What the advantage the above over this:
perl -le 'print time'
Oh come on, you asked how to use @{[]}. Well, its main purpose is a way
to embed
* Bart Lateur [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-13 11:30]:
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:29:38 -0400, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
What the advantage the above over this:
perl -le 'print time'
Oh come on, you asked how to use @{[]}.
It’s a legitimate question.
Another use case:
for( qw( 1 2 3 )
On 7/13/06, A. Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Modification of a read-only value attempted at foo line 2.
Yeah, I get that a lot and I have to burn another variable to get around it;
for( @{[ qw( 1 2 3 ) ]} ) {
$_ = $_ * $_; # contrived
Now this is good, less vars and
On Jul 12, 2006, at 2:28 AM, Yanick Champoux wrote:
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 19:22, Philippe BooK Bruhat wrote:
Le mardi 11 juillet 2006 à 21:59, Smylers écrivait:
but babycart transmits the idea that what you put inside is
fragile and simple...
It's also a series of japanese saber films
Philippe BooK Bruhat writes:
Le lundi 10 juillet 2006 à 12:09, Jose Castro écrivait:
Indeed... it *is* a container! You put things inside it!
I still prefer Supermarket Trolley,
Ditto. There's more variety as to what you might put inside it.
but babycart transmits the idea that
Smylers wrote:
It only does that if you've heard the term before. I hadn't heard of it
before this thread, and I'm a native English speaker. My initial guess
was that it's some kind of small cart, but I now gather it's an
alternative term for a pushchair, or perhaps for a pram.
Either way
* Smylers [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-11 23:05]:
babycart is 3 syllables; shopping trolley
Plus I could see myself adopting the latter (reluctantly) if it
became part of the vernacular, but I’d feel too silly using the
former to pick it up.
I still like “fat brackets” better though, in vague
Let's just call it a rubber baby buggy bumper, then at least noone can say
it three times fast regardless of what goes inside. It could be abbreviated
to R3B, as in The best way to deref that structure is to use an arr three
bee.
Taking that another step, it could be an R2D2 as well. At least
Le mardi 11 juillet 2006 à 21:59, Smylers écrivait:
but babycart transmits the idea that what you put inside is
fragile and simple...
It only does that if you've heard the term before. I hadn't heard of it
before this thread, and I'm a native English speaker. My initial guess
was
Why Perl5's dereferencing is better than Perl6's:
#34370 +(6)- [X]
tye and deref'ing is easy to remember because robots, -[ , use simple
integer indices while samuri, -{ , have names for everything, and aliens,
-( , use functional programming
--http://perlmonks.org/?node=tye
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Free map of
I recently thought about the @{[]} operator again (one of the
semi-famous Perl secret operators), and called it
the babycart operator.
I think I got the name from the series of films Baby Cart
(after the japanese manga Lone Wolf and Cub).
Opinions?
Well, you once introduced
On Jul 10, 2006, at 11:59 AM, McGlinchy, Alistair wrote:
I recently thought about the @{[]} operator again (one of the
semi-famous Perl secret operators), and called it
the babycart operator.
I think I got the name from the series of films Baby Cart
(after the japanese manga Lone Wolf and
Le lundi 10 juillet 2006 à 12:09, Jose Castro écrivait:
In my brain it's always been Geiger's Alien with the double jaws, but I
can see the babycart with each use containing a different hack/baby.
Indeed... it *is* a container! You put things inside it!
I still prefer Supermarket
On Jul 7, 2006, at 11:02 PM, Andrew Savige wrote:
--- Alan Young wrote:
I missed any discussion on this, and searching for this series of
characters is fruitless.
Here's an attempt at a definitive reference list for Perl's
secret operators. I blame cog and BooK.
Original fwp thread on
Pierce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 11:54 AM
To: Philippe BooK Bruhat
Cc: Jose Castro; fwp@perl.org
Subject: Re: Naming the @{[]} operator
Babe cart? Supermarket trolley? Bah! Speak *English* :-P
I still like Intervalpation, but I guess you want something
along
What's the difference between @{[]} and () ? Other than obfuscatory
purposes?
The former interpolates the list into qq{} (i.e. double quotes), the later
doesn't.
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**NOTE** new, shorter spelling of obsolescent MichaelRunningWolf-at-att.net
From the keyboard of Stefan `Sec` Zehl [08.07.06,12:29]:
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 08:02 +1000, Andrew Savige wrote:
Here's an attempt at a definitive reference list for Perl's
secret operators. I blame cog and BooK.
[...]
Wow, thanks for that list. -- On a related note: I distinctly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is really a form of parenthesis.
So call it the fat brackets.
Or, to add a bit of consonance:
at-fat-brack
or, even
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@ckets
or, shortened to
@-brackets
But that could get confused with the more common (and more useful)
@{...}
--
Michael R.
I don't really think of it as *an* operator. It's a chain, or collection,
of reference/dereferencing to nastiness (doesn't mean I don't use it).
Intervalpation?
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Think of it as a bird's eye view
Paren's head- @{[]} - Rubber baby buggy bumper
^- Baby
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It also cradles something ugly/cute (err, I mean fragile).
Think of it as a bird's eye view
Paren's head- @{[]} - Rubber baby buggy bumper
^- Baby
Philippe BooK Bruhat wrote:
I recently thought about the @{[]} operator again (one of the
semi-famous
Perl secret operators), and called it the babycart operator.
I can see where you got that ... kinda fits.
I missed any discussion on this, and searching for this series of
characters is
What's the difference between @{[]} and () ? Other than obfuscatory purposes?
perl -le 'print @{[time]}'
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On Jul 7, 2006, at 4:36 PM, Philippe BooK Bruhat wrote:
Hi,
I recently thought about the @{[]} operator again (one of the
semi-famous
Perl secret operators), and called it the babycart operator.
I think I got the name from the series of films Baby Cart (after the
japanese manga Lone Wolf
Le vendredi 07 juillet 2006 à 18:54, Jose Castro écrivait:
On Jul 7, 2006, at 4:36 PM, Philippe BooK Bruhat wrote:
Hi,
I recently thought about the @{[]} operator again (one of the
semi-famous
Perl secret operators), and called it the babycart operator.
I think I got the name from
Babe cart? Supermarket trolley? Bah! Speak *English* :-P
I still like Intervalpation, but I guess you want something
along the lines of spaceship operator. If that's the case call it a pram.
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