Re: The flaming X-wing secret operator

2007-11-30 Thread Yanick Champoux
shmem wrote: in fact, shmem and Georg are the same guy, though 'Georg' just slipped ;-) One would think that the same sig and style and everything would have tipped me off. But no... That was too suble for me still. :-P Me likes. Lots. I propose, as alternative names for

Re: The flaming X-wing secret operator

2007-11-30 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 09:43:36AM +0100, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: Me likes. Lots. I propose, as alternative names for those two tokens, the fat bat (because it does look like a particularly rotund specimen of that species, and in honor of the large value it yields) and

Re: The flaming X-wing secret operator

2007-11-30 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 08:01:45PM -0500, Yanick Champoux wrote: shmem wrote: To brighten up your day - here's the winged moon, which isn't an operator, but a constant: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Georg added: Similar to the winged moon - an operator (token?) which scares the hell out of the

Re: The flaming X-wing secret operator

2007-11-29 Thread José Alves de Castro
On Nov 28, 2007, at 4:16 PM, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: Hi, Just thought I should share this with the FWP crowd. I had to do something special with the first line of a file, before running the whole while() loop on it. I ended up with this: @[EMAIL PROTECTED] ==~ $re; Rafael helped

Re: The flaming X-wing secret operator

2007-11-29 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 09:54:25AM +0100, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: # DATA is the pilot, for the sake of the example @[EMAIL PROTECTED] =DATA=~ $re; Did I just inadvertently make a Star Wars/Star Trek cross-over? -- Philippe Bruhat (BooK) He who revels in being

Re: The flaming X-wing secret operator

2007-11-29 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 05:09:57PM -0500, Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote: Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: Hi, Just thought I should share this with the FWP crowd. I had to do something special with the first line of a file, before running the whole while() loop on it. I ended up with this:

Re: The flaming X-wing secret operator

2007-11-29 Thread Dmitry Karasik
Philippe @[EMAIL PROTECTED] ==~ $re; That gives me a reason to pick symmetrical names for my filehandles in the future: =W=~ =O__O=~ =IX000H000XI=~ that'll be an X-wing squadron :) -- Sincerely, Dmitry Karasik

Re: The flaming X-wing secret operator

2007-11-29 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 01:09:20PM +0100, Dmitry Karasik wrote: Philippe @[EMAIL PROTECTED] ==~ $re; That gives me a reason to pick symmetrical names for my filehandles in the future: =W=~ =O__O=~ =IX000H000XI=~ that'll be an X-wing squadron :) Or you could go down the

Re: The flaming X-wing secret operator

2007-11-29 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: Why would I need parentheses, when the hash slice gives me a list context already? The parentheses, like the whitespace, are for clarification; to make it easier to understand what is happening. Also, it is not one operator, it is three. Why do you use so much

Re: The flaming X-wing secret operator

2007-11-29 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 09:20:20AM -0500, Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote: Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: Why would I need parentheses, when the hash slice gives me a list context already? The parentheses, like the whitespace, are for clarification; to make it easier to understand what is

Re: The flaming X-wing secret operator

2007-11-29 Thread yanick
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:00:19AM +0100, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 07:22:54PM -0500, Yanick Champoux wrote: Somehow, I think Philippe knew that. ;-) Even better, I knew I didn't need them. I knew you knew. :-) I was more saying Philippe knows that

Re: The flaming X-wing secret operator

2007-11-29 Thread shmem
From the keyboard of [EMAIL PROTECTED] [29.11.07,11:11]: On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:00:19AM +0100, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 07:22:54PM -0500, Yanick Champoux wrote: Somehow, I think Philippe knew that. ;-) Even better, I knew I didn't need them.

Re: The flaming X-wing secret operator (moon 2)

2007-11-29 Thread Georg Moritz
From the keyboard of [EMAIL PROTECTED] [29.11.07,11:11]: On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:00:19AM +0100, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 07:22:54PM -0500, Yanick Champoux wrote: Somehow, I think Philippe knew that. ;-) Even better, I knew I didn't need them.

Re: The flaming X-wing secret operator

2007-11-29 Thread Yanick Champoux
shmem wrote: To brighten up your day - here's the winged moon, which isn't an operator, but a constant: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Georg added: Similar to the winged moon - an operator (token?) which scares the hell out of the remainder of a list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Me likes. Lots. I

Re: The flaming X-wing secret operator

2007-11-29 Thread shmem
From the keyboard of Yanick Champoux [29.11.07,20:01]: shmem wrote: To brighten up your day - here's the winged moon, which isn't an operator, but a constant: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Georg added: Similar to the winged moon - an operator (token?) which scares the hell out of the

Re: The flaming X-wing secret operator

2007-11-28 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: Hi, Just thought I should share this with the FWP crowd. I had to do something special with the first line of a file, before running the whole while() loop on it. I ended up with this: @[EMAIL PROTECTED] ==~ $re; Rafael helped me give this new operator a

Re: The flaming X-wing secret operator

2007-11-28 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
Yanick Champoux wrote: Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote: Actually, it's: @[EMAIL PROTECTED] = ( =~ $re ); Somehow, I think Philippe knew that. ;-) But, sadly, not everyone else who reads this list :( So we had the spaceship operator, and now the flaming x-wing... Hmmm... I'm