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
I'm
so .. I've RTFM and still don't get it.
ExtUtils::MakeMaker .. how do I get it to run a script at make time .. I
have a .pl in a directory that I need run every 'make' .. I know how
to add it as a POSTOP or PREOP to a 'make dist' or whatever .. but not
just on a plain 'make' ...
--
Robin
Hi folx,
Why is it that every time I spend 2 hours working with XML I discover a new twist that
makes everything more complex than it used to be? And that's deliberately ignoring the
advanced stuff.
Anyway, does anyone know of any XML authoring tools (any platform) that let you
compose XML
Paul Makepeace sent the following bits through the ether:
Are there modules/frameworks that exist to create classes from a
grammar spec (e.g. EBNF)?
Well, Parse::RecDescent[1] probably does what you want. Check out the
autotree directive.
Parsing is fun. Let's try and parse everything!
[1]
Paul Makepeace wrote:
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.
On Tuesday, May 29, 2001, at 11:18 AM, Simon Wistow wrote:
I started looking into this when I first started doing the SWF stuff ...
a kind of YACC for file formats. Describe it in a BNF-a-like language
and then run a program over it et voila - you have a library for reading
and creating
Marcel Grunauer sent the following bits through the ether:
Is that a) a good idea, b) a bad idea, c) common practice anyway and
I just haven't found it?
japhy's apparently kinda doing this:
http://search.cpan.org/doc/PINYAN/YAPE-Regex-3.01/extra/YAPE.pm
The YAPE hierarchy of modules is an
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 02:27:40AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Anyway, PDF is easier re: packing/endianness since it's a text format!
The only time you get binary data is for unencoded streams (which they advise
against, although it's permitted, for example PDFlib generates it)
like a
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 10:45:59AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
[Of course, the reason nobody's done this before is that everyone
wants a slightly different interface...]
Surely it should be possible to specify the underlying *functionality*
of the system and then have a perl source filter (or
On Tuesday, May 29, 2001, at 11:49 AM, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Surely it should be possible to specify the underlying *functionality*
of the system and then have a perl source filter (or other component of
perl's mind-addling n-tier parsing architecture) that
rewrites/re-presents the
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Leon Brocard wrote:
Other programming languages need code generators to spit out
libraries. Perl doesn't need to do this as it's dynamic, baby. This is
why Parse::RecDescent / Template Toolkit are so groovy, yeah.
I propose a new convention : we all shout 'CAMEL' if Leon
Paul Makepeace wrote:
Like I said, I looked into and didn't find anything and didn't have the
time/experience/inclination to start doing something myself - too many
gotchas :(
Like what kind of gotchas, besides the padding/endianity stuff?
Well, Parse::RecDescent didn't do binary (I
Social Meeting: Thursday 7th June
Unless anyone comes up with a better idea in the next 24 hours, we'll go to
the Penderels Oak for this.
Technical Meeting: Thursday 21st June
Need a venue for this please people. And speakers. If any speakers want to
practise TPC or YAPC::E talks, then this
Greetings all. The beerfest is now over, thank god. Was getting a bit
blase about all that free beer. Anyway, I'm now and expert in fence
building, floor laying, cotton condoming (!), and estimated I pulled
over a thousand last week. Pints that is.
So, what did I miss?
L.
On Tue, 29 May 2001 12:19:54 +0100 (BST)
Lucy McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings all. The beerfest is now over, thank god. Was getting a bit
blase about all that free beer. Anyway, I'm now and expert in fence
building, floor laying, cotton condoming (!), and estimated I pulled
All the current projects are done and dusted and the T-shirts are at
the printers (really!). I'm looking for the next round of excellent
clients to work with.
Take a look at my site at http://www.hodgkinson.org/ to see what I'm
up to.
Thanks,
Dave
--
Dave Hodgkinson,
James Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You've got a link to 127.0.0.1 on your CV page (sorry, I'm nosy).
Fixed, ta. The perils of a two-tier Apache :-)
Also, I see you've worked with the devil known as Illustra!
Me too, condolences!
They had the right idea... ;-)
Still, at least one
On Mon 28 May, Paul Makepeace wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19239.html
Entertaining (and http:www.gateway.co.uk would not let me in today.) But I
wonder what the site is for. The main Government site has been
http://www.open.gov.uk . That is closing, because presumably
So have you seen _Center of the World_ yet ?
YY
duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
see i dont mind 'lad's' magazines being covered in naked women,
because i mean thats kinda what makes up the content of the magazine.
but im very irritated by the fact that technology magazines are using
sex
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On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 03:02:49PM +0100, Tony Kennick wrote:
recruitment mode
Sorry to just randomly attack you like this after reading your mail to
London.pm's list. But a) are you a Camra member and b) are you going to
work the great British beer festival in London this summer and/or
On Tue, 29 May 2001 15:43:49 +0100, James Powell wrote:
Also, I see you've worked with the devil known as Illustra!
Me too, condolences!
Me too. I even wrote DBD::Illustra for it, although by the time I got permission to
release it, no one else in the World appeared to want it.
--
Paul Mison [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*On 29/05/2001 at 18:04 +0100, Yeoh Yiu wrote:
*So have you seen _Center of the World_ yet ?
*
*Nah, 'cos it's not out here yet. No release date is listed on IMDB.
*Salon didn't like it, though:
Salon has good taste too. Sucked harder than watching the queen
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 07:39:33PM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote:
On Tue, 29 May 2001 15:43:49 +0100, James Powell wrote:
Also, I see you've worked with the devil known as Illustra!
Me too, condolences!
Me too. I even wrote DBD::Illustra for it, although by the time I got permission to
James Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ooh that would have been very useful for me at one time.
I've got bells ringing in my head about how hard it was to get a C
library out of them in the early days.
Illustra - Nice ideas, shame about the locking approach
(and lack of outer joins, etc
Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
James Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ooh that would have been very useful for me at one time.
I've got bells ringing in my head about how hard it was to get a C
library out of them in the early days.
Illustra - Nice ideas, shame about the locking
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Paul Sharpe wrote:
Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
James Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ooh that would have been very useful for me at one time.
I've got bells ringing in my head about how hard it was to get a C
library out of them in the early days.
Jonathan Stowe wrote:
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Paul Sharpe wrote:
Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
James Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ooh that would have been very useful for me at one time.
I've got bells ringing in my head about how hard it was to get a C
library out of
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 09:48:28AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
Anyway, does anyone know of any XML authoring tools (any platform) that let you
compose XML against a Schema (latest spec), enforcing validation as you go?
XML-Spy seems great in most respects but appears to have bugs in
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:59:48AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Leon Brocard wrote:
Other programming languages need code generators to spit out
libraries. Perl doesn't need to do this as it's dynamic, baby. This is
why Parse::RecDescent / Template Toolkit are so
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:59:48AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Leon Brocard wrote:
Other programming languages need code generators to spit out
libraries. Perl doesn't need to do this as it's dynamic, baby. This is
why
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Tony Kennick wrote:
recruitment mode
Sorry to just randomly attack you like this after reading your mail to
London.pm's list. But a) are you a Camra member and b) are you going to
work the great British beer festival in London this summer and/or you
interested in
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