Re: Odd idiom

2001-05-28 Thread Dave Cross
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:20:04PM -0700, Paul Makepeace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Why do people say "inherits from the Foo::Bar manpage" and not "Foo::Bar > module/class"? I mean, how can something inherit from a lump of > documentation? Is this one of those klutz kult phenomenon or something

Odd idiom

2001-05-28 Thread Paul Makepeace
Why do people say "inherits from the Foo::Bar manpage" and not "Foo::Bar module/class"? I mean, how can something inherit from a lump of documentation? Is this one of those klutz kult phenomenon or something I'm not "in" on? :) Paul

Grammar -> Class creation

2001-05-28 Thread Paul Makepeace
Are there modules/frameworks that exist to create classes from a grammar spec (e.g. EBNF)? Restating, I'm envisaging something where the input is a grammar and the output is a class or set of classes that provides parsing capabilities and validating accessor methods. Immediate application is feed

God bless Micro$oft

2001-05-28 Thread Paul Makepeace
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19239.html Joy. Paul

Re: [OT] Food exports?

2001-05-28 Thread Chris Benson
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 12:45:30PM +, Redvers Davies wrote: > > A sign at Barcelona airport says that "passengers to GB and Netherlands > > I went to Barcelona during the height of FMD. They told us on the plane > that we were going to be sterilised on arrival. ... and did they?? :-) >

Re: [OT] Food exports?

2001-05-28 Thread Redvers Davies
> A sign at Barcelona airport says that "passengers to GB and Netherlands I went to Barcelona during the height of FMD. They told us on the plane that we were going to be sterilised on arrival. (Poor choice of words there methinks). > I bought non-milk xocolate with my remaining pesetas. Who

Re: [OT] Food exports?

2001-05-28 Thread Chris Benson
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 07:22:11PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > Someone just laid what I think is a fresh urban myth on me, but is > there any kind of embargo on comestibles going from England to France? > Like even wrapped chocolate? A sign at Barcelona airport says that "passengers to GB

Re: Buffy moves to London to do Eastenders

2001-05-28 Thread Mark Fowler
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Redvers Davies wrote: > > Well, not quite... but nearly: > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders/features/exclusive.shtml > There seems to be something wrong with this URL...where's the @decimalipaddress after the domain name? Later Mark -- s'' Mark FowlerTe

Buffy moves to London to do Eastenders

2001-05-28 Thread Redvers Davies
Well, not quite... but nearly: http://www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders/features/exclusive.shtml