[ANNOUNCE] 5th Birthday Competition

2003-08-05 Thread Mark Fowler
We're five! We're five! What could be better? How about to celebrate we get our good friends at O'Reilly to give a way a free subscription to Safari (their online subscription service) for first prize in a fifth birthday competition, with prizes for second place and spot prizes for other

Re: Meetings

2003-08-05 Thread Mark Fowler
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Nigel Rantor wrote: would be interested in any signs that you lot think are indicative. As Dave said, we'll be in the cellar bar so it shouldn't be too hard to find us. I'm bringing party hats. And to help people find me, I'll be wearing (for one night only) one of the

Re: text'd or texted

2003-08-05 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 04:02:23 -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Welcome to English where any noun can be verbed :) Also popular is 'to SMS' or 'to be SMS-ed'. Surely that's just a smidgeon to close to SM'd? -Dom -- | Semantico: creators of major online resources | |

Re: text'd or texted

2003-08-05 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Philip Newton wrote: On 5 Aug 2003 at 9:41, Andy Ford wrote: Another word to confuse the non English speaking community -the verb to text!! Any noun can be verbed (though verbing weirds language). hlör u fang axaxaxas mlö. I let you google for it.

Re: text'd or texted

2003-08-05 Thread Philip Newton
On 5 Aug 2003 at 10:55, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: hlör u fang axaxaxas mlö. I see. Googled for it, and after reading up at a couple of sites, it reminded me of http://www.zompist.com/kitgram.html#partspeech , specifically of the bit about It stones whileunder it grows greeningly (and that

Re: Meetings

2003-08-05 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth: * *will other people be wearing clothes they won at the auction - leon? He needs to send me his postal address first :) e.

Re: interrupt only working once

2003-08-05 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On 05 Aug 2003 16:21:42 +0100, Andy Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Solaris 2.8 How odd - that definitely supports sigaction. Maybe perl's configure hasn't picked it up? What does perl -V:d_sigaction say? -Dom -- | Semantico: creators of major online resources | | URL:

Re: interrupt only working once

2003-08-05 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On 05 Aug 2003 16:40:23 +0100, Andy Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: d_sigaction='define'; Ok, in that case, I can only conclude that I have no idea why that's going on. Sorry! -Dom -- | Semantico: creators of major online resources | | URL: http://www.semantico.com/

Re: interrupt only working once

2003-08-05 Thread Andy Ford
That works a treat - thanks Andy On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 14:58, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: Andy Ford wrote: I am testing out signal (I nearly wrote single - and I'm married) trapping so I can use it in a number of scrits all ready in service. funnyBeware with the anger wife

Re: Meetings

2003-08-05 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Mark Fowler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Nigel Rantor wrote: would be interested in any signs that you lot think are indicative. As Dave said, we'll be in the cellar bar so it shouldn't be too hard to find us. I'm bringing party hats. And to help people find me, I'll

Re: [OT] submitting a perl bug without ``perlbug''?

2003-08-05 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Belden Lyman wrote: A few months back I encountered a switch ordering bug with Perl 5.6.1 and 5.8 on Solaris. (-w -T on #! line doesn't work; -T -w does work, as do -wT and -Tw.) I wasn't able to 'perlbug' it at the time, and am still unable to do so. On occassion, I remember the bug and

Pollution and Inheritance

2003-08-05 Thread Peter Sergeant
I'm writing a module, Some::Module::Extended, which is a sub-class of Some::Module. There are two or three methods that I want Some::Module::Extended to override - I want them to do some munging of their arguments before sending them on to the parent method. So, for example: #