Re: Why shouldn't sleep(0.5) DWIM?

2001-01-31 Thread Casey R. Tweten
. /opinion -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http://home.kiski.net/~crt'};print "\n",'.'x(length($sig-{site})+6),"\n"; print map{$_.': '.$sig-{$_}."\n"}sort{$sig-{$a}cmp$sig-{$b}}keys%{$sig}; my $VERSION = '0.01'; #'patched' by

Re: RFC195: Do not remove 'chop' PLEASE!

2001-01-28 Thread Casey R. Tweten
34 wallclock secs (32.87 usr + 0.13 sys = 33.00 CPU) @ 303030.30/s (n=1000) Doesn't seem like that much gain from chop() to substr(), but it's still a gain. 20k/s more... -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http://home.kiski.net/~crt'};pr

Re: Perl Apprenticeship Program

2000-12-05 Thread Casey R. Tweten
, sorry for going public. I wanted : to make this clarification. No, it was public and you made a good clarification. -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http://home.kiski.net/~crt'};print "\n",'.'x(length($sig-{site})+6),"\n"; pr

Re: Perl Apprenticeship Program

2000-12-05 Thread Casey R. Tweten
in(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http://home.kiski.net/~crt'};print "\n",'.'x(length($sig-{site})+6),"\n"; print map{$_.': '.$sig-{$_}."\n"}sort{$sig-{$a}cmp$sig-{$b}}keys%{$sig}; my $VERSION = '0.01'; #'patched' by Jerrad Pierce belg4mit at MIT dot EDU

Re: Proposal for groups

2000-12-03 Thread Casey R. Tweten
to 10 ): * Working group chairs * Larry * Contributors and Authors of the Perl 5 core * People in the AUTHORS file of Perl 5 * Just moderate posting to the list I am not standing behind any of the above suggestions, just throwing them out there. -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig

Re: Proposal for groups

2000-12-03 Thread Casey R. Tweten
(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http://home.kiski.net/~crt'};print "\n",'.'x(length($sig-{site})+6),"\n"; print map{$_.': '.$sig-{$_}."\n"}sort{$sig-{$a}cmp$sig-{$b}}keys%{$sig}; my $VERSION = '0.01'; #'patched' by Jerrad Pierce belg4mit at MIT dot EDU

Re: Perl apprenticing (was Re: Backtracking through the source)

2000-11-30 Thread Casey R. Tweten
ge of, say, the properties of : complex numbers is as important as knowledge of the guts when building the : complex number class. I deffinitley agree. -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http://home.kiski.net/~crt'};print "\n",'.'x(length

Re: Uninstalling perl

2000-11-01 Thread Casey R. Tweten
getting getting your box to work after installing 5.004 at /usr ( not /usr/local ). : 3. Anyone knows which was the previous (original) version, and : where can I found it? Look at the CPAN for Perl 5.004 -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http

Re: is this list still operational?

2000-10-30 Thread Casey R. Tweten
be avoided on this list. RFC stuff _is_ over though and for that, you're late. -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http://home.kiski.net/~crt'};print "\n",'.'x(length($sig-{site})+6),"\n"; print map{$_.': '.$sig-{$_}."\n"}sort{$s

Re: RFC 260 (v1) More modules

2000-09-20 Thread Casey R. Tweten
ill get my job done. rm them. -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http://home.kiski.net/~crt'};print "\n",'.'x(length($sig-{site})+6),"\n"; print map{$_.': '.$sig-{$_}."\n"}sort{$sig-{$a}cmp$sig-{$b}}keys%{$sig}; my

Re: RFC 263 (v1) Add null() keyword and fundamental data type

2000-09-20 Thread Casey R. Tweten
cause I've been thinking about writing this for a while. However, I would probably never use it, personally, I can see times when others have wanted something close. =end -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http://home.kiski.net/~crt'};print "

Re: pack/unpack is damn unperlish. Explain them as Perl.

2000-09-18 Thread Casey R. Tweten
printf( "%4d/%02d/%02d %02d:%02d%02d\n", unpack( 'A4A2A2A2A2A2', '2918123847' ) ); If printf is perlish, so is unpack, IMHO ;-) -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http://home.kiski.net/~crt'};print "\n",'

Re: RFC 212 (v1) Make length(@array) work

2000-09-13 Thread Casey R. Tweten
side operation, use Perl. Kidie: How do I get the length of my array? I used length( @some_array ) and it didn't work! =end Please understand, allowing this to happen may encorage stupidity, which I am against. However, it's probably a common case. -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));m

Re: RFC 212 (v1) Make length(@array) work

2000-09-13 Thread Casey R. Tweten
Today around 12:01pm, Nathan Torkington hammered out this masterpiece: : Casey R. Tweten writes: : Leave length() the way it is now and, if one so desires, they may : override it on there own to use length for getting: : : Not that helpful a suggestion for beginners. They don't know how

Re: RFC 212 (v1) Make length(@array) work

2000-09-13 Thread Casey R. Tweten
Today around 12:19pm, Nathan Torkington hammered out this masterpiece: : Casey R. Tweten writes: : Ok, consider allowing: : :$a = length @b; : : to DWIM, however, when running with warnings, warn the user that Cscalar is : what they really want. : : Just thowing that out

Re: RFC 212 (v1) Make length(@array) work

2000-09-13 Thread Casey R. Tweten
(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http://home.kiski.net/~crt'};print "\n",'.'x(length($sig-{site})+6),"\n"; print map{$_.': '.$sig-{$_}."\n"}sort{$sig-{$a}cmp$sig-{$b}}keys%{$sig}; my $VERSION = '0.01'; #'patched' by Jerrad Pierce belg4mit at MIT dot EDU

Re: RFC 42 - Request For New Pragma: Shell

2000-09-13 Thread Casey R. Tweten
tansparent shell ops in Perl, may ( or may not ) be a good application for this suggested pragma. I tend to fall toward the 'may not' category. -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http://home.kiski.net/~crt'};print "\n",'.'x(length($sig-{sit

Re: RFC 195 (v1) Retire chop().

2000-09-08 Thread Casey R. Tweten
, qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http://home.kiski.net/~crt'};print "\n",'.'x(length($sig-{site})+6),"\n"; print map{$_.': '.$sig-{$_}."\n"}sort{$sig-{$a}cmp$sig-{$b}}keys%{$sig}; my $VERSION = '0.01'; #'patched' by Jerrad Pierce belg4mit at MIT dot EDU

Re: RFC 33 (v2) Eliminate bareword filehandles.

2000-09-06 Thread Casey R. Tweten
isgo; print qq(RFC number $rfcnumber matches $matched time(s):\t$rfcroot$rfcnumber.pod\n) if $matched; } __END__ -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http://home.kiski.net/~crt'};print "\n",'.'x(length($sig-{site})+6),"\n"; pr

Re: RFC 135 (v2) Require explicit m on matches, even with ?? and //as delimiters.

2000-08-25 Thread Casey R. Tweten
TERN, FLAGS) : 4 match(PATTERN) : : because you can't really tell 2 from 3. If qr() were required for PATTERN, would this become less of an issue? Or no issue? -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http://home.kiski.net/~crt'};print "\n&qu

122 (v1): types and structures

2000-08-24 Thread Casey R. Tweten
that it's all bookkeeping. Cmy appears to be taking over a lot of Ctie's duties. =head1 REFERENCES http://www.howstuffworks.com/c5.htm for C structures RFC 61 (v2): Interfaces for linking C objects into perlsubs RFC 75 (v1): first class interface definitions -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. T

RFC's mentioning PDL

2000-08-24 Thread Casey R. Tweten
://dev.perl.org/rfc/142.pod I'll copy and paste these into my editor and send them along. -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http://home.kiski.net/~crt'};print "\n",'.'x(length($sig-{site})+6),"\n"; print map{$_.': '.$sig-{$_}."\n&q

38 (v2): Standardise Handling Of Abnormal Numbers Like InfinitiesAnd NaNs

2000-08-24 Thread Casey R. Tweten
. =head1 REFERENCES Math::Complex PDL::Math [suggested by Tim Jenness] p6rfc for bigints [to be written] -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http://home.kiski.net/~crt'};print "\n",'.'x(length($sig-{site})+6),"

116 (v1): Efficient numerics with perl

2000-08-24 Thread Casey R. Tweten
the point where you no longer feel tempted to overstuff the language. Hypotheticality is your friend. -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http://home.kiski.net/~crt'};print "\n",'.'x(length($sig-{site})+6),"\n"; print map{$_

117 (v1): Perl syntax support for ranges

2000-08-24 Thread Casey R. Tweten
print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http://home.kiski.net/~crt'};print "\n",'.'x(length($sig-{site})+6),"\n"; print map{$_.': '.$sig-{$_}."\n"}sort{$sig-{$a}cmp$sig-{$b}}keys%{$sig}; my $VERSION = '0.01'; #'patched' by Jerrad Pierce belg4mit at MIT dot EDU

142 (v1): Enhanced Pack/Unpack

2000-08-24 Thread Casey R. Tweten
contributed to this RFC. [If I've missed anyone, LET ME KNOW!] Glenn Linderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Co-Author) Dominic Dunlop [EMAIL PROTECTED](Contributor) -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http://home.kiski.net/~crt'};print "\n",'.'x(len

115 (v1): Default methods for objects

2000-08-24 Thread Casey R. Tweten
at least 2 would be darn useful. =head1 REFERENCES RFC 117: Perl syntax support for ranges LPDL (http://pdl.sourceforge.net/PDLdocs) http://pdl.perl.org Numerical Python: http://starship.python.net/~da/numtut/ -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',s

Re: Test

2000-08-24 Thread Casey R. Tweten
Today around 8:13am, Larry Wall hammered out this masterpiece: : Karl Glazebrook writes: : : Who is here anyway? : : Don't ask me. I only work here. Who is the chair of this group? We need an RFC or two to work on. -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: RFC 111 (v1) Whitespace and Here Docs

2000-08-24 Thread Casey R. Tweten
and have two passes on the data. : Attention, dropsied weasel, we are : launching our team of legal beagles : straight for your scrofulous crotch. : : xx oo : FOO : : you mean? -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey

Re: Test

2000-08-23 Thread Casey R. Tweten
. -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http://home.kiski.net/~crt'};print "\n",'.'x(length($sig-{site})+6),"\n"; print map{$_.': '.$sig-{$_}."\n"}sort{$sig-{$a}cmp$sig-{$b}}keys%{$sig}; my $VERSION = '0.01'; #'patched' by Jerrad Pierce belg4mit at MIT dot EDU

Re: functions that deal with hash should be more libera

2000-08-22 Thread Casey R. Tweten
at. This suggestion was brought up as a means to make these functions more user friendly. If it's impossible, then I'll be glad to forget about it. [Insert many replies that agree here, I'm sure.] -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http://home.kiski.net/~c

Re: functions that deal with hash should be more libera

2000-08-22 Thread Casey R. Tweten
to understand this problem/bug/feature/not too noticed 'thing'. -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http://home.kiski.net/~crt'};print "\n",'.'x(length($sig-{site})+6),"\n"; print map{$_.': '.$sig-{$_}."\n"}sort{$sig-{$a}cmp$sig

Re: functions that deal with hash should be more libera

2000-08-22 Thread Casey R. Tweten
and each(). Also in perlfaq4, although I bet this is not a frequent question. -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http://home.kiski.net/~crt'};print "\n",'.'x(length($sig-{site})+6),"\n"; print map{$_.': '.$sig-{$_}."

Re: functions that deal with hash should be more liberal

2000-08-22 Thread Casey R. Tweten
Today around 10:11am, John Porter hammered out this masterpiece: : Casey R. Tweten wrote: : : sub func { :return qw/KeyOne Value1 KeyTwo Value2/; : } : : print "$_\n" foreach keys func(); : : Please. There are ways -- well, just one way -- to do this, even in perl5. : :

Re: functions that deal with hash should be more libera

2000-08-22 Thread Casey R. Tweten
things easy, out of the box? : And if I want to be a masochist and have my code scrutinized like hell, : using strict, -wT ? : : use strict 'hash'; : no strict 'hash'; -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http://home.kiski.net/~crt'};print "\n",'

Re: functions that deal with hash should be more liberal

2000-08-21 Thread Casey R. Tweten
intuitive. If I were to write my own keys function, it would behave like above no matter what. I would expect a list, and return a list. -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http://home.kiski.net/~crt'};print "\n",'.'x(length($sig-{site}

Re: functions that deal with hash should be more liberal

2000-08-21 Thread Casey R. Tweten
ething like: KeyOne KeyTwo Rather than that error. -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',site= 'http://home.kiski.net/~crt'};print "\n",'.'x(length($sig-{site})+6),"\n"; print map{$_.': '.$sig-{$_}."\n"}sort{$sig-{$a}cmp$sig

Re: RFC 109 (v1) Less line noise - let's get rid of @%

2000-08-18 Thread Casey R. Tweten
Today around 2:04pm, Casey R. Tweten hammered out this masterpiece: : Today around 10:45am, Steve Fink hammered out this masterpiece: : : : Ted Ashton wrote: : : : : all : : dereferencing can be done

Re: RFC 114 (v1) Perl resource configuration

2000-08-16 Thread Casey R. Tweten
c qw/:all/; because there would be a naming convention involved similar to: Module RC File -- --- CGI.pm CGI.rc Shell.pmShell.rc File/Find.pmFile/Find.rc And so on. Just some thoughts. -- print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail='[EMAIL PRO

Re: RFC 114 (v1) Perl resource configuration

2000-08-16 Thread Casey R. Tweten
Today around 7:17pm, Casey R. Tweten hammered out this masterpiece: : Today around 2:34pm, Nathan Wiger hammered out this masterpiece: : : : Think on this: : : : : use perlrc qw/Resource1 Resource5/; # Import only named 'Resources' : : : : use perlrc qw/:all/;# Import all