Re: DBIx::Class - Related Tables

2008-10-07 Thread Shevek
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 10:54 +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: On 7 Oct 2008, at 10:10, Minty wrote: On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then what's the benefit of an ORM? (general question, not just to you :) Dunno about ORMs in general, but

Re: Exceptions

2003-09-25 Thread Shevek
with exporting symbols into the callee namespace. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: [OT] accessors pragma

2003-09-17 Thread Shevek
? Basically... No. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: [OT] accessors pragma

2003-09-17 Thread Shevek
foo { @_==2 ? shift-{foo} = pop : shift-{foo} } This is semantically different, and therefore not an appropriate answer. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: [OT] accessors pragma

2003-09-17 Thread Shevek
. I'm sure we've all met this before somewhere in a profiler. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: [OT] accessors pragma

2003-09-17 Thread Shevek
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Robin Berjon wrote: Shevek wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Robin Berjon wrote: sub foo { @_==2 ? shift-{foo} = pop : shift-{foo} } This is semantically different, and therefore not an appropriate answer. Semantically different from what, and an appropriate answer

Re: [OT] accessors pragma

2003-09-16 Thread Shevek
, previous value]. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: back to the 80's

2003-09-16 Thread Shevek
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 01:07:12AM +0100, Shevek wrote: Other random amusements include a PC with nearly 250 CD-ROMs. *snigger* It's kind of rackmounted... Wow, are they all connected? (128 channel ide controllers can't be *that* expensive

Re: [OT] accessors pragma

2003-09-16 Thread Shevek
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 02:44:25PM +0100, Shevek wrote: This whole chained accessors thing is a definite perl-ism and will do you no favours with people for whom Perl is not a primary language. I see similar method chaining in Java. poing

Re: [OT] accessors pragma

2003-09-16 Thread Shevek
(Foobar); } } } I would credit who wrote this, but I'm not sure if he'd want it known. *snigger* S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: [OT] accessors pragma

2003-09-16 Thread Shevek
something perfectly simple. That in itself quite clearly increases effort for the maintainer, in contradiction of your earlier mail. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: back to the 80's

2003-09-15 Thread Shevek
. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: [ot] doubtless silly perl question

2003-09-15 Thread Shevek
=( split ',' = $line )[7]; ? I understand that you should have used two lines. Why not do so? my @tmp = split /,/, $line; my $foo = $tmp[7]; S. i'm trying to get the split to return an array, of which I then get the 7th element (and assign to $foo). /joel -- Shevek

Re: Sets and existing CPAN modules

2003-09-10 Thread Shevek
with Pixie. Whut? S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: Partitioning?

2003-09-10 Thread Shevek
on the fly when you work out that you messed up. I don't suppose it works quite as nicely as Tru64 with optional rebalancing though. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: Partitioning?

2003-09-10 Thread Shevek
4031152 86048 3740292 3% /tmp 750megswap remaining lvm physical volume drive2: 1024meg swap remaining lvm physical volume S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg

Re: Exim and HELO

2003-09-08 Thread Shevek
! +Pete -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: Module dependencies

2003-09-08 Thread Shevek
of any one module is incomputable in general, and most likely incomputable in the specific cases of many popular modules, especially those with baroque plugin architectures. Yay, I get to rain on Kake's parade again. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am

Re: Module dependencies

2003-09-08 Thread Shevek
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Kate L Pugh wrote: Shevek wrote: Surely identifying the dependencies of any one module is incomputable in general, and most likely incomputable in the specific cases of many popular modules, especially those with baroque plugin architectures. On Mon 08 Sep 2003

Re: Module dependencies

2003-09-08 Thread Shevek
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote: Je 2003-09-08 15:29:16 +0100, Shevek skribis: I like the suggestion later in this thread about having a standard way of specifying optional modules. I think that such a feature could benefit from considerable architecture support, and would make

Re: Limiting process startup

2003-09-05 Thread Shevek
growing your own using IPC. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: Limiting process startup

2003-09-05 Thread Shevek
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Paul Crowley wrote: Shevek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Isn't this the kind of thing grid engine and its ilk have been designed to solve? There are many such architectures already written, I'm suprised noone has mentioned it. There's not much point growing your own

Re: Bad C Source (Re: gzipping your websites WINRAR 40 days trial)

2003-09-04 Thread Shevek
, int * error) { auto_ptrminer foo; try { foo = auto_ptrminer (new miner); } catch (bad_alloc e) { *error = ENDORIAN; return foo; } . return foo; } HTH. HAND. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org

Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s

2003-09-02 Thread Shevek
access, whereas .tar files need to be scanned to work out where each file starts and ends. And plain `ar' doesn't do compression. Neither, in the strictest sense, does tar. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http

Re: Programming Email Filters

2003-09-01 Thread Shevek
:.*Returned /dev/null :0 * ^Subject:.*deliver /dev/null :0 * ^Subject:.*failure /dev/null # By now we've trapped 98% of the spam bounces, and we're left # with a few. :0: spam } -- Shevek

Re: Getting a Hashkey for a Perl Data Structure

2003-08-29 Thread Shevek
suddenly hashing to different values. Ideas? Mark. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: Getting a Hashkey for a Perl Data Structure

2003-08-29 Thread Shevek
. S. with hash key sorting you may get other random differences - offhand I can't think what, although how numeric scalars are stored may vary depending on whether they've been used in a string context. Nicholas Clark -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org

Re: insidious biometrics, identity crises

2003-08-28 Thread Shevek
cards, with the legal protection as a primary backup mechanism to prevent fraud. Randomness. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: golf and reversed emails

2003-08-24 Thread Shevek
that a fancy multi-threaded implementation might not guarantee it (so that very long lists could be mapped without using too much memory). -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: hash lookup with regex

2003-08-23 Thread Shevek
the ___ can eixst in any position) This is a job for a tree. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: [OT] SQL woes

2003-08-23 Thread Shevek
Create a not-null join to a table containing only those values? that my database design was wrong. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: [OT] SQL woes

2003-08-17 Thread Shevek
this. is it not simply: UPDATE user UPDATE user, user_names SET user.user_realname = user_names.name WHERE user.user_id = user_names.user_id ? -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http

Re: [RFC] arbitary maths evaluation

2003-08-16 Thread Shevek
approach, using a hand-coded SR-parser, generating and then emitting a tree. Cool, I will use it. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: [OT] Decompiling perl2exe apps

2003-08-15 Thread Shevek
seems to crop up a lot without actually giving much detail on how to do it. 'strings' is probably a good start. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: [RFC] arbitary maths evaluation

2003-08-15 Thread Shevek
a good but fast sandbox, is to parse the thing properly, generate a parse tree, then emit guaranteed clean Perl code from the parse tree, and eval that. I do this on a fairly large scale. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg

Re: [RFC] arbitary maths evaluation

2003-08-15 Thread Shevek
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, darren chamberlain wrote: * Shevek shevek at anarres.org [2003-08-15 12:39]: The effective halfway house, which does produce a good but fast sandbox, is to parse the thing properly, generate a parse tree, then emit guaranteed clean Perl code from the parse tree

Re: [RFC] arbitary maths evaluation

2003-08-15 Thread Shevek
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Andy Wardley wrote: Shevek wrote: Yapp is a brilliant piece of code which I love both in architecture and implementation, but it's desperately fucking slow. Slow at compiling the grammar or when running the parser that it builds? Very slow at running. I don't really

Re: [RFC] arbitary maths evaluation

2003-08-15 Thread Shevek
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Werm wrote: Shevek wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Andy Wardley wrote: Shevek wrote: Yapp is a brilliant piece of code which I love both in architecture and implementation, but it's desperately fucking slow. Slow at compiling the grammar or when running the parser

Re: what are you doing

2003-08-14 Thread Shevek
something outside IT / planning to do something like this? I'm going to be a perpetual student, because by all accounts, I'm probably unemployable anyway by now. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: Pollution and Inheritance

2003-08-14 Thread Shevek
Some::Module::Extended(@_); } sub new { fuck_with(@_); return smnew(@_); } # tum ti tum tiddle ti tum... this is why we are supposed to use factory # methods... 1; -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http

Re: Reordering Arrays.

2003-08-14 Thread Shevek
-[$_]-[$a] } (0..$#arr) } (0..$#{$arr-[0]}) S. But does anyone know a module that can do this? Any super fast cleverness that I don't want to even think about? You could tie it to something that just pretends the coordinates are the other way around? S. -- Shevek

Re: [JOB] Security in Amsterdam

2003-08-14 Thread Shevek
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Leon Brocard wrote: The Canon Security Group based at Canon Europa NV in Amstelveen (Amsterdam) is currently recruiting a Security Analyst. Aww shit. This is my ideal job. And I'm not going to apply. I suppose I could chase them up in a year or two. S. -- Shevek

Re: interrupt only working once

2003-08-06 Thread Shevek
'} = \catch_signal; # best strategy sub catch_signal { etc etc } This should be a simple one You might need to reset the signal handler in your routine. Different unixen do this differently. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg

Re: HTML::Parser

2003-08-04 Thread Shevek
. The invocation system might be easier for what you're trying to do. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Net::FTPServer and MakeMaker

2003-07-25 Thread Shevek
targets, but not both (or something like that, I worked it out once). Anyway, does this build for anyone, and if so, how? Tomorrow's pain in the arse will be: Apache::Test, a very good idea, but not working with DSOs. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am

Net::FTPServer - solved

2003-07-25 Thread Shevek
In one place, it was looking at $], in another place it was looking at some environment variable which nothing sets! It should look at $] in both places if it's going to have a hope of working on 5.8 S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg

Re: Verbose output idiom

2003-07-24 Thread Shevek
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Matthew Lawrence wrote: Shevek wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Clayton, Nik [IT] wrote: {# It's a scope! my @warnbuffer; $SIG{__WARN__} = sub { frob @warnbuffer; } $SIG{__WARN__} = sub { frob @warnbuffer; die join , @warnbuffer

Re: fork()ing in perl

2003-07-18 Thread Shevek
already, but couldn't find anything. http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/rej/gcbook/gcbook.html will give some overview of the problems of memory management. Also read the (older?) BSD malloc source code, which is short enough to understand in a few minutes only. S. -- Shevek

Re: fork()ing (pedantry)

2003-07-18 Thread Shevek
allocation than overall memory optimality. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: Book for review

2003-07-18 Thread Shevek
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, David Cantrell wrote: Does anyone here have any experience of running Linux on IBM zSeries? Cos Prentice Hall have a book on it. Was this written by someone inside IBM? S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg

Re: Messing with mail-owned files from Apache

2003-07-17 Thread Shevek
how to make it build from apt-get source (anyone?). I remember majordomo have a wrapper that's been around a long time, so looked at that. But then again, majordomo is pretty trivial to 0wn through the wrapper. Look at -C. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org

Re: Messing with mail-owned files from Apache

2003-07-17 Thread Shevek
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Michael Stevens wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 03:25:56PM +0100, Shevek wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote: But then again, majordomo is pretty trivial to 0wn through the wrapper. Look at -C. If you can find holes in majordomo, I'm sure all the usual

Re: parsing lisp s-expressions in perl?

2003-07-16 Thread Shevek
RecDescent or FastDescent? On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Raf wrote: Hi, Just a quick query to find out if there's a good tried and tested module for parsing lisp s-expressions into perl datastructures (or eventually into xml?)? thanks. R. -- Shevek

Re: License question

2003-07-15 Thread Shevek
third party sources might not be. This is valid. A distribution of the generated data is not free. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: [gear] Spare 1U?

2003-07-10 Thread Shevek
a motherboard that supports memory being installed at an angle that has been designed to provide for decent airflow through the case. I deny this, since I have owned several 1Us where this was not the case. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg

Re: Is dynamic inheritance bad?

2003-07-10 Thread Shevek
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Jon Reades wrote: Shevek wrote: snip But in answer to John's comments, look at what DBI does! You assume that I think DBI is a good model for OO design. ;) Personally, I'd be happier if DBI worked like: my $db = DBI::MySQL-new(user, pass, db) But if this were

Re: Neural nets

2003-07-10 Thread Shevek
. For some jobs, I've actually started writing them in XS rather than in C, because then I get access to all these nice primitives for doing various sorts of object management, and this even if I don't have any pure Perl elements of my code. S. -- Shevekhttp

Re: [gear] Spare 1U?

2003-07-10 Thread Shevek
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:09:31PM +0100, Shevek wrote: http://www.gothnicity.org/ http://goth.paulm.com/the_new_black.jpg (75K, work safe) contains one answer ;-) To which question? The site displays a random question every time you load

Re: Is dynamic inheritance bad?

2003-07-10 Thread Shevek
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Richard Clamp wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:14:21PM +0100, Shevek wrote: But if this were the case (for a general system of this type), then the type of storage now becomes a matter for the code, rather than just a configuration variable, and my $obj

Re: Is dynamic inheritance bad?

2003-07-10 Thread Shevek
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: Shevek said: On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Richard Clamp wrote: Or, if you're familiar with the fun of perls OO it remains the much more similar: my $obj = Factory-$type(...); But now you are allowing configuration variables to modify actual code

Re: Is dynamic inheritance bad?

2003-07-07 Thread Shevek
of doing: Acme-DBI(..). # return Acme::DBI object Acme-CSV(...) # return Acme::CSV object at least you wouldn't have to do the new bit... ;-) I dislike it intensely. It's a whole new syntax. But in answer to John's comments, look at what DBI does! S. -- Shevek

Re: Is dynamic inheritance bad?

2003-07-06 Thread Shevek
no reason in Perl why Acme::new has to return an Acme. Perhaps this will illustrate. sub new { my $class = shift; my $type = shift; $class .= ::$type; return $class-new(@_); } S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg

Re: Is dynamic inheritance bad?

2003-07-06 Thread Shevek
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Mark Overmeer wrote: * Shevek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030706 17:28]: On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Jonathan Peterson wrote: Perhaps this will illustrate. sub new { my $class = shift; my $type = shift; $class .= ::$type; return $class-new

Re: mod_perlness

2003-07-02 Thread Shevek
to figure out if mod_perl is still cool or not. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: mod_perlness

2003-07-02 Thread Shevek
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Robin Berjon wrote: Shevek wrote: On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Jonathan Peterson wrote: Call me thick but so far as I can see the only way to access stuff in the apache config file (such as PerlSetVar statements) is via the apache Remember almost all of the config file

Re: Linux firewall / web server

2003-07-01 Thread Shevek
almost syntactically identical in the shell anyway using a few shell variables. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: Linux firewall / web server

2003-07-01 Thread Shevek
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Ben wrote: On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:47:40PM +0100, Shevek wrote: I do not understand the need for [the added complexity and perversion of] [firewall rule management] packages since it is perfectly possible to write something almost syntactically identical in the shell

Re: Linux firewall / web server

2003-07-01 Thread Shevek
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Ben wrote: On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 01:21:03PM +0100, Shevek wrote: On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Ben wrote: Anyway, even having looked at filtergen, who really gives a toss if it came in on eth0? That's assembly programming for firewalls. What everyone really wants to say

Re: ICFP This Weekend

2003-06-28 Thread Shevek
a compiler) was rather jumping in at the deep end, and how useless h2xs is. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: Contracts for contractors

2003-06-26 Thread Shevek
. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: UK Money, again

2003-06-26 Thread Shevek
, where HZ depends on your architecture. On most x86s, it's 1/100. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: G5 benchmarks

2003-06-24 Thread Shevek
, they will probably want to do something about it. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: SQL standards

2003-06-21 Thread Shevek
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Ian Malpass wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Shevek wrote: Can someone please recommend a core informational reference book for the implementation of SQL used in Postgres. I've got O'Reilly's SQL in a Nutshell: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sqlnut/ It's got

Re: [OT]: ImageMagick compression trouble

2003-06-20 Thread Shevek
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: Shevek wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: I'm writting quick so I can back to the today's problem here, a C / ImageMagick program to manipulate images. My actual problem is that when I WriteImage() back

SQL standards

2003-06-20 Thread Shevek
of the 'with grant option' clause. Is this information available online _anywhere_? Thanks. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: dns woes

2003-06-15 Thread Shevek
with the message ERROR[-310] line [15] [ns1-handle:[69541] not found in tld registry] This is normal. You need to register the hostname and IP of all nameservers explicitly with the registry. I don't know how Joker deal with this, I only use NSI. S. -- Shevek

Re: Where to buy IBM laptop?

2003-06-12 Thread Shevek
transport if you are sufficiently determined to walk from Thameslink. I would recommend them. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://design.anarres.org/

Re: Z or S?

2003-06-09 Thread Shevek
presents more logical limited agreement that we should be using the -ize form; he refers to an article in the OED specifying a precise list of forms which are to be terminated -ize, all others must be terminated -ise. I do not own an OED. I wish I did. S. -- Shevek

Re: Making perl modules for CPAN

2003-06-05 Thread Shevek
over the other. Question now irrelevant. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://design.anarres.org/

Re: Making perl modules for CPAN

2003-06-05 Thread Shevek
at 14.4; management overhead costs more than bandwidth. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://design.anarres.org/

Re: checking port status with perl

2003-06-04 Thread Shevek
to see if they are running and accepting connections? Yes. Mon. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://design.anarres.org/

Re: Reaping process...

2003-06-03 Thread Shevek
reaping is just fragile under high load. Ignore the SIGCHLD. POSIX only guarantees signal delivery within 4 minutes. Just reap a few whenever you get to an appropriate point in your code. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Tim O'Reilly in London

2003-05-28 Thread Shevek
applications. Er, isn't the 'M' in there something to do with , cough, MySQL ... ? Sh. The 'P' is PHP. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://design.anarres.org/

Re: Someone must have solved this one ?

2003-05-28 Thread Shevek
. This would probably be faster. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://design.anarres.org/

Re: [OT] Broken sendmail

2003-04-02 Thread Shevek
fundamental library in the system. In order to get the benefits of any changes for *all* programs - you must reboot. This is not actually true. The change will affect all new processes, and frankly the old libc was probably fine. Look in /proc/*/maps if you don't believe me. S. -- Shevek

Re: [OT] Broken sendmail

2003-04-02 Thread Shevek
added), then forks will fail. I can't believe this is true. It isn't. The old inode is still there until all processes close the file. Read /proc/*/maps, the linker will annotate the old files as (deleted) and add version numbers to the mmap()'d space for the new copies. S. -- Shevek

RE: RegEx for UK Postal Codes

2003-04-01 Thread Shevek
{0,1}[A-Z]{0,1}\W[1-9]{1,1}[A-Z]{2,2}/ I also assume you'll be using some form of case-insensitivity in there... -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://design.anarres.org/

Re: use warnings and 5.005

2003-03-31 Thread Shevek
of code that's at stake? Code is seen as less critical somehow? Less subject to the same stringent measures of correctness? Even when 99% of the time, a code error will have a far greater effect than a hole in a firewall. Anyway... S. -- Shevekhttp

RE: use warnings and 5.005

2003-03-31 Thread Shevek
, if not fewer. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://design.anarres.org/

Re: use warnings and 5.005

2003-03-31 Thread Shevek
warnings at deployment. And Fleeg dies. Poor Fleeg. Whoops. [weak anti-war joke snipped] S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://design.anarres.org/

Re: use warnings and 5.005

2003-03-31 Thread Shevek
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Richard Clamp wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 05:04:10PM +0100, Shevek wrote: On 31 Mar 2003, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Wrong. I can't get this to shuttup in Perl 5.5: my @punctuation = qw(. , ! ?); I would argue for: my @punct = do { no warnings; qw

Re: use warnings and 5.005

2003-03-31 Thread Shevek
called 'warnings' and not 'errors'. Taken delightfully out of context. I'll modify that to probably shouldn't, and my whole argument about only explicitly allowing the peculiarities you really intended to use stands. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am

Re: use warnings and 5.005

2003-03-30 Thread Shevek
issues no warnings, it is always appropriate to use warnings. If your code issues warnings, it's wrong. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://design.anarres.org/

Re: Guy Langley/GB/ABNAMRO/NL is out of the office.

2003-03-28 Thread Shevek
that Notes and Exchange are both the work of Iraq? When will the triumphant US and British armies come to liberate? No, Exchange is the system that will be put in by the liberating army, of course. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg

Re: crackfuelled idea / nntp / message boards / bl*gs / mailinglists

2003-03-28 Thread Shevek
? Remember the good old days when you couldn't send mail to anyone using Exchange unless you had a trust relationship with them, and it wans't SMTP either? S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://design.anarres.org/

Re: graphics cards in servers

2003-03-27 Thread Shevek
to use PCI CL5434 or 5446 cards, because I have 8 or more years of using them and I know them inside out. Right now I'm using an S3, a Diamond FireGL (urk), an Elsa Gloria Glint/MX (urk! just got replaced actually), and several onboard i810s. S. -- Shevekhttp

Re: Beginners Help Needed again

2003-03-21 Thread Shevek
is $favorite ); } else { print hr, start_form; print p(Please select a flavor: , textfield(flavor,mint)); print end_form, hr; } Thanks for your help. Regards Brian Smart -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am

Re: Motherboard query

2003-03-21 Thread Shevek
the board in it. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://design.anarres.org/

Re: Learning regular expressions

2003-03-17 Thread Shevek
the regex. S. or if ($is_ok{lc($userinput)}) { ... } if($userinput =~ /^\s*y|(ok)/i) # nice { ... } Heh, heh, *this* is nice? I assume that this was supposed to be: =~ m/\s*(?:y|(ok))/i But this is hardly easier than 'eq'. jon -- Shevek

OT: House cleaning: computers for sale

2003-03-16 Thread Shevek
-del by mistake on the wrong keyboard. -- Shevek, professional whore, more at http://design.anarres.org/

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