RE: Apoc 5 questions/comments

2002-06-09 Thread Richard Nuttall
I have no doubt that, once Perl 6 is available, we'll see a rash of modules released in the Grammar:: namespace. Including Grammar::Romana, Grammar::Klingon, Grammar::Buffy, Grammer::Mispelt, and others... :-) Grammar::Python, Grammar::Ruby, Grammar::PHP ? R.

Re: Indeterminate math

2002-10-15 Thread Richard Nuttall
but +Inf, or undef but NaN for 0/0, which would then cause a warning/error/nothing, as required by pragma, following the 0 but true that has been discussed previously. Normal numification would presumably propogate the undef but +Inf value. R. -- Richard Nuttall Invisible Networks DDI: 01954

Re: Perl6 Operator List, TAKE 4

2002-10-28 Thread Richard Nuttall
conversion between bases, and/or strings, rather than using pack/unpack/sprintf, etc. ? my $macaddr = '00022D3F7659'; my $hex = 16:$macaddr; How about $a = 'DEADBEEF'; $hexres = 16:$a + 16:FEED; print ~16:$hexres; does that give me DEAEBDDC ? R. -- Richard Nuttall

Re: run-once code

2004-01-14 Thread Richard Nuttall
{}; }; Then call $test() as needed; R. -- Richard Nuttall Nuttall Consulting www.nuttall.uk.net

Re: Exegesis 7: Fill Justification

2004-03-01 Thread Richard Nuttall
on alternate lines. This produces more balanced looking columns, so they don't all look heavier on the left. -- Richard Nuttall

Re: Default program

2004-04-01 Thread Richard Nuttall
arguments, it seems obvious to me that they are intending to begin development of a script. On the DWIM principle, shouldn't Perl then just autoload the DWIM::AI module and provide as output the script that they are intending to write ? R. -- Richard Nuttall Nuttall Consulting 01353 649878

Re: Yadda yadda yadda some more (2)

2004-05-14 Thread Richard Nuttall
comes in. Create a template like the above and then DWIM::AI::Yadda will join the dots and create the program for you ! R. -- Richard Nuttall Nuttall Consulting 01353 649878 www.nuttall.uk.net

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-04 Thread Richard Nuttall
- support for automatically pulling database DSN information from a ~/.dbi (or similar) file. This is constantly re-invented poorly. Let's just do a connect by logical application name and let the SysAdmins sort out which DB that connects to, in a standard way. This reminds me

Re: [perl6/specs] 5277fe: Add expmod and is-prime as built-ins in Int

2012-09-24 Thread Richard Nuttall
A quick search throws up http://primes.utm.edu/prove/prove2_3.html Which says that for/n/ 341,550,071,728,321 it is enough to test 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13 and 17 to be definitive (and fewer specific tries for smaller n) That also verifies the 75/25 figures mentioned below. So, depending on the