> Ate, incidentally, is a contraction of Hecate, which wouldn't have
> scanned as well.
Err, just quietly Dave, that proves not to be the case.
Ate was the goddess of folly, strife, discord, and mischief.
She was a daughter of Zeus, banished to Earth for her wickness
in leading men astray.
> *>The latter is much beloved of modern Goddess worshippers -- as the
> *>third personification of the Goddess. They'll have your guts
> *>(or worse!) for garters if they catch you confusing Her with
> *>that bitch Ate ;-)
>
> None of the gods were exactly sweetness and light.
> "You can't just make up any old shit and expect the computer to know what
> you mean, retardo!"
Hey! Stop undermining the sole basis of my entire career!
Damian
> still, if damian gets his way we'll no doubt be able to have
> modules/filters that mean we can still use -> :)
I *guarantee* it!
It will definitely be possible in Perl 6, because even with our primitive
earth technology we can do the reverse today:
#
> > I suppose you'll want me to put that on the CPAN now. ;-)
>
> Yes. Didn't we sponsor you for this ;-)
I hear and obey, O Mighty Sponsor!
Though I suspect I'll hold off until Larry makes A3 public. Then I'll
release a module that rearranges *all* the operators to their new Perl
6 bi
> I wonder how hard it would be to get Faith or Charisma Carpenter
> ...to do a meet'n'greet at TPC.
No idea. But it that idea falls through, I bet you *could* get a pony!
;-)
Damian
> Robin Houston was the first to write in that Larry Wall had completed
> "Apocalypse Two", on what parts of Perl 6 will look like. Everything's
> an object, more quoting, '.' instead of '->', and more. Damian Conway
> posted s
> Exegesis unimatrix-1:
>
>print "Hello, World!\n"
>
> RFC28 hard at work here!
Great minds thinking in parallel there, Marcel.
My first draft of Ex2 started like this:
Here's the very first Perl 6 program ever written:
#! /usr/local/bin/perl6 --wa
Now I'm not buying into the argument on either side, but it does remind
me of a lovely quote by Australian programming legend Alan Kennington:
Eiffel is some sort of avant-garde French computing
movement which believes that programming is reactionary
and oppressive. Inste
> "What's it like then, Macbeth in Wol Wantok? An improvement..."
Im nogat samting til ridim insait long pastaim Klingon!
Damian (longlong tisa Perlpela)
That's right Marcel...steal *all* my ideas for the next three months and do
them in two days!
;-)
Damian
> > > > Im nogat samting til ridim insait long pastaim Klingon!
> > > >
> > > > Damian (longlong tisa Perlpela)
> > >
> > > Lingua::TokPisin::Perlpela?
> >
> > Nooo!
> >
> > Damian - as a sponsor, I'm _begging_ you not to do this :)
>
> if that works you j
> Damian is so cool...
The next version of Text::Autoformat (which should be out before TPC5)
will also leave header lines and sigs unmolested, making it truly useful
for email tidying.
> Now if he'd just stop blaming me for stuff like DWIM.pm... ;-)
Well, I would if you'd just stop p
> Minor problemette is, when 1.0.4 is called at the end of the file:
> Can't call method "signature" on an undefined value at
> /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.0/Text/Autoformat.pm line 779.
Noted and fixed for the next release.
Damian
> Note that you can't overload constants this way, since this has to
> happen during BEGIN time, but attributes are only evaluated at CHECK
> time (at least as far as `Attribute::Handlers' is concerned).
Not so. At least not as of the next release.
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