* Nathan Torkington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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> We're going to use RFCs for future additions to Perl, we just need to
> find some good filters that will prevent them from consuming
> everyone's time.
how about adding a field on the RFC template such as, ``forum initially
discussed in'' - the
Steve Mynott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> David Hodgkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > I think
> >
> > Ta,
>
> How did he do then?
You're a bad boy :-)
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David Hodgkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > I think
>
> Ta,
How did he do then?
:->
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Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think
Ta,
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David Hodgkinson wrote:
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> Anyone got Richard Clamp's mobile no? He's due here now...
07720 298487
I think
Piers Cawley writes:
> > As Piers said, we are blocked on Larry. We're working on some
> > interpreter design now, but some language issues really need to be
> > nailed down before we know what we're going to be writing.
>
> Any idea how long we're going to stay blocked?
None whatsoever. Many
Anyone got Richard Clamp's mobile no? He's due here now...
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Andy Wardley writes:
> It might also draw the all-talk-and-no-trousers crowd away from the
> serious perl6 development process. It would give us, er, I mean *them*
> somewhere to rant without bothering too many people doing the real work
> on crafting Perl 6.
Yes, and no. The problem is that it
On Jan 9, 8:24am, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> As Piers said, we are blocked on Larry. We're working on some
> interpreter design now, but some language issues really need to be
> nailed down before we know what we're going to be writing.
Are there any plans to keep the RFC process going in the f
Piers Cawley sent the following bits through the ether:
> This time. The discussion has been back and forth on various lists,
> usually with benchmarks.
Thou shalt optimise for programmer time unless absolutely necessary,
when thou shalt Benchmark and quoth both the benchmark and the
results.
L
Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> David Cantrell writes:
> > From what I can tell, there ain't a lot happening.
>
> As Piers said, we are blocked on Larry. We're working on some
> interpreter design now, but some language issues really need to be
> nailed down before we know what
Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Greg McCarroll sent the following bits through the ether:
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> > in my original rule it was all to do with good programming style, not
> > eeking out every bit of performance, my reply was actually that i
> > thought dave choose a very grey area in terms
David Cantrell writes:
> From what I can tell, there ain't a lot happening.
As Piers said, we are blocked on Larry. We're working on some
interpreter design now, but some language issues really need to be
nailed down before we know what we're going to be writing.
Nat
>
> How does the output compare to XML::Simple::XMLout() ?
>
I found XML::Simple::XMLout() to be deeply yucky, as it kind of randomly
chooses to go for sub elements or attributes based on phases of the moon*.
Also, it will happily output invalid XML if you have invalid data in your
datastructure.
Greg McCarroll sent the following bits through the ether:
> in my original rule it was all to do with good programming style, not
> eeking out every bit of performance, my reply was actually that i
> thought dave choose a very grey area in terms of programming style
Indeed. And someone mentioned
* Leon Brocard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Greg McCarroll sent the following bits through the ether:
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> > nope daves was a bad example
>
> Benchmark.pm - hard facts are better than guesses (hmm, I could do a
> talk on this...)
>
in my original rule it was all to do with good programming styl
Greg McCarroll sent the following bits through the ether:
> nope daves was a bad example
Benchmark.pm - hard facts are better than guesses (hmm, I could do a
talk on this...)
Leon
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* Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > * Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:25:18AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> > > > > 6.) regular expressions
Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:25:18AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> > > > 6.) regular expressions are not the only way to code, length and
> > > >
Greg McCarroll sent the following bits through the ether:
> has anyone been keeping up with the Perl 6 mailing lists and the Perl 6
> project in general? i'd like to have a look into some of the proposals
> and i've sort of lost touch with it all.
The RFC's are available at http://dev.perl.org/
* Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:25:18AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> > > 6.) regular expressions are not the only way to code, length and
> > > substr are in the language for a reason
> >
>
David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:25:18AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> > 6.) regular expressions are not the only way to code, length and
> > substr are in the language for a reason
>
> Also index. These two snippets are equivalent:
>
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:57:46AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> has anyone been keeping up with the Perl 6 mailing lists and the Perl 6
> project in general? i'd like to have a look into some of the proposals
> and i've sort of lost touch with it all.
>From what I can tell, there ain't a lot h
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Dean S Wilson wrote:
>I've been involved in the debates on this list about Perl and Java and
>I'd thought I'd say something nice for once.
>
>I've just spent three hours playing with XML::Generator and md5
>checksums, I was having problems building hash's of hash's with the
>m
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:25:18AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> * Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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> > Thou shalt ensure that everything knows as little as possible about
> >anything else. (There's *got* to be a way to condense that...)
Thou shalt encapsulate?
> ok heres my 10 ru
Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> has anyone been keeping up with the Perl 6 mailing lists and the Perl 6
> project in general? i'd like to have a look into some of the proposals
> and i've sort of lost touch with it all.
It's kind of blocked on Larry at the moment. There's some stuff
has anyone been keeping up with the Perl 6 mailing lists and the Perl 6
project in general? i'd like to have a look into some of the proposals
and i've sort of lost touch with it all.
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* Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> David Hodgkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > Was it here that we discussed the Perl commandments? You remember,
> > things like "thou shalt use strict and -w" and so on...
>
> I don't think we were. But:
>
> Thou shalt not write the same thing t
David Hodgkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Was it here that we discussed the Perl commandments? You remember,
> things like "thou shalt use strict and -w" and so on...
I don't think we were. But:
Thou shalt not write the same thing twice.
Thou shalt not use map in a void context.
Thou shalt
Was it here that we discussed the Perl commandments? You remember,
things like "thou shalt use strict and -w" and so on...
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David Hodgkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Picture painted?
Man, I REALLY need to check Reply-To's...!
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Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> David Hodgkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Given another spate of layoffs last week, I'd just like to point out
> > that Reading Room are hiring good Perl, Linux/Solaris/Anything,
> > MySQL/Oracle/DBS/Anything hackers.
>
> Where is Reading Roo
* Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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> > There are a few crypto modules on CPAN, although they all use C for the
> > hard work. Whether they're available in PPMs for Activestate or not,
> > I don't know.
>
> I'm doing a pure WML script implementation of MD5 at the moment that'd
> be dead
> There are a few crypto modules on CPAN, although they all use C for the
> hard work. Whether they're available in PPMs for Activestate or not,
> I don't know.
I'm doing a pure WML script implementation of MD5 at the moment that'd
be dead easy to port to Perl. Especially since Perl has things
David Hodgkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Given another spate of layoffs last week, I'd just like to point out
> that Reading Room are hiring good Perl, Linux/Solaris/Anything,
> MySQL/Oracle/DBS/Anything hackers.
Where is Reading Room? And are you talking permies or contractors. And
if on
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