On 2012-05-14, at 10:58, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
Reminds me of an April-fools article introducing COME FROM to the
language to ease debugging. In the end of that article they also
described COME FROM ON Hilarious
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM
On 2012-05-14, at 07:51, David Cantrell wrote:
For extra excitement, perl has this nifty feature where you can index
from the end of an array using negative numbers:
@array = ('ant', 'bat', 'camel', 'dolphin');
print $array[-1]; # dolphin
print $array[-2]; # camel
That really _is_ a nifty
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 05:15:56AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
On 2012-05-14, at 07:51, David Cantrell wrote:
For extra excitement, perl has this nifty feature where you can index
from the end of an array using negative numbers:
@array = ('ant', 'bat', 'camel', 'dolphin');
print
Well, while we're ranting about stupid language design desisions...
I would like to dish out a special platter of hate for Puppet.
Well, not a programming language per se.
But Puppet is special in that it's intended to be a *descriptive* language.
So you describe how your servers are to be
Darrell Fuhriman darr...@garnix.org wrote:
I'm personally of the opinion that they should abandon the custom DSL in
favor of a pure ruby implementation, but I seem to be on the losing end
of that argument.
This is one of the weirder design decisions of Puppet, given how
fashionable embedded
On 15 May 2012 12:22, Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com wrote:
On 2012-05-14, at 10:58, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
Reminds me of an April-fools article introducing COME FROM to the
language to ease debugging. In the end of that article they also
described COME FROM ON Hilarious
On 2012.5.14 2:44 AM, Numien wrote:
But, that is another good point:
* We'll add file access and persistent storage later
Still don't count that as a design mistake in Javascript, but a design
feature. It was designed as a secure language and that means very, very
restricted I/O and storage.
On 2012.5.14 5:08 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
* Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk [2012-05-14 12:20]:
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:06:59AM +0200, demerphq wrote:
I kinda wish perl had an interface like
my $iter= iterator(%hash);
while (my ($key,$value)= $iter-each) { }
Which I think would
On 2012.5.14 2:06 AM, demerphq wrote:
On 14 May 2012 02:17, Michael G Schwern schw...@pobox.com wrote:
So much hate for tying the iterator to the data and not the op.
Indeed. I see this bite people regularly at $work (non Perl
programmers converting seem to get bitten by each() at least once
On 2012.5.14 2:47 AM, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
* undef/NULL handling
* Oracle converts to NULL on varchar2 fields
* MySQL considers the date -00-00 both NULL and NOT NULL at
the same time
I would boil that down to trinary logic. A good idea that NOBODY gets it
right. If you do
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