On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:43:08PM -0500, David Nicol wrote:
On 7/28/05, John P. Linderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is there any significant difference between perl and Perl?
That is exactly the sort of edge case that is under discussion in
this thread. One possibility is maintaining an
+A program that compiles and usually executes L/Perl scripts. Or is
+that Lperlfaq1/Is it a Perl program or a Perl script?|Perl programs?
s/is that/are they/, I guess, but I may be wrong...
s/usually //
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 01:38:11PM +0200, Piotr Fusik wrote:
+A program that compiles and usually executes L/Perl scripts. Or is
+that Lperlfaq1/Is it a Perl program or a Perl script?|Perl programs?
s/is that/are they/, I guess, but I may be wrong...
Implied is that phrase in the previous
Leaving aside alternate backends (-MO=...) and the possibility of perl
lying over and dying during the compile, there\'s still perl -c.
-c is check syntax and not compile.
And there are also -h and -v, but I wouldn't take serious writing something
like perl can be used for checking syntax or
I have doubts about the following changes:
Note that the $year element is Inot simply the last two digits of
-the year. If you assume it is, then you create non-Y2K-compliant
+the year. If you assume it is and then you create non-Y2K-compliant
programs--and you wouldn't want to do that,
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 08:55:17AM +0200, Piotr Fusik wrote:
Note that the $year element is Inot simply the last two digits of
-the year. If you assume it is, then you create non-Y2K-compliant
+the year. If you assume it is and then you create non-Y2K-compliant
programs--and you wouldn't
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 00:37 -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Note that a block by itself is semantically identical to a loop
-that executes once. Thus Clast can be used to effect an early
+that executes once. Thus Clast can be used to affect an early
exit out of such a block.
effect
Note that a block by itself is semantically identical to a loop
-that executes once. Thus Clast can be used to effect an early
+that executes once. Thus Clast can be used to affect an early
exit out of such a block.
effect is a noun. affect is a verb so I think this change is correct.
chromatic wrote:
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 00:37 -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Note that a block by itself is semantically identical to a loop
-that executes once. Thus Clast can be used to effect an early
+that executes once. Thus Clast can be used to affect an early
exit out of such a
Steve Peters wrote:
This patch has it all: passive voice removals; spelling fixes; which vs.
that change; e.g. fixes; and etc. Thanks to Pod::Simple::RTF and
and handy grammar checker, this was all made much easier. Enjoy!
Thanks, applied as change 25234 with minor tweaks as suggested.
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 08:55:17AM +0200, Piotr Fusik wrote:
I have doubts about the following changes:
Note that a block by itself is semantically identical to a loop
-that executes once. Thus Clast can be used to effect an early
+that executes once. Thus Clast can be used to affect an
Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 08:55:17AM +0200, Piotr Fusik wrote:
I have doubts about the following changes:
Note that a block by itself is semantically identical to a loop
-that executes once. Thus Clast can be used to effect an early
+that executes once. Thus
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 08:55:17AM +0200, Piotr Fusik wrote:
I have doubts about the following changes:
Note that the $year element is Inot simply the last two digits of
-the year. If you assume it is, then you create non-Y2K-compliant
+the year. If you assume it is and then you create
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 11:23:45AM +0100, Steve Hay wrote:
I didn't think it was confusing, but that be a minority opinion.
Well, it's erudite, eloquent English written by someone with good vocabulary.
(Did tchrist write it?)
However it seems that
1: If you aren't native speaker, or don't
I've already applied the first patch, with the appropriate tweaks :-)
Steve Peters wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 08:55:17AM +0200, Piotr Fusik wrote:
I have doubts about the following changes:
Note that the $year element is Inot simply the last two digits of
-the year. If you assume it
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:32:56AM -0500, Steve Peters wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 08:55:17AM +0200, Piotr Fusik wrote:
I have doubts about the following changes:
Clearly, I need to read my mailbox completely after waking up in the
morning :-/
Steve Peters
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 11:23:45AM +0100, Steve Hay wrote:
I didn't think it was confusing, but that be a minority opinion.
Well, it's erudite, eloquent English written by someone with good vocabulary.
(Did tchrist write it?)
However it seems that
1: If you
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Steve Hay wrote:
Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 11:23:45AM +0100, Steve Hay wrote:
I didn't think it was confusing, but that be a minority opinion.
Well, it's erudite, eloquent English written by someone with good vocabulary.
(Did tchrist write it?)
An aside on the whole affect vs. effect thing...
In fact, both words have both a verb and a noun sense.
Affect as a verb means to influence or change.
Effect as a verb means to bring about.
Affect as a noun means a feeling or emotion.
Effect as a noun means a result or influence.
Affect has
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 09:53:18AM -0400, Ronald J Kimball ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
An aside on the whole affect vs. effect thing...
In fact, both words have both a verb and a noun sense.
Quoting from _The Elements Of Style_, by Strunk White, in the chapter
Misused Words and Expressions:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:50:57AM -0400, Randy W. Sims wrote:
Usage Note: Affect and effect have no senses in common. As a verb affect
is most commonly used in the sense of ?to influence? (how smoking
affects health). Effect means ?to bring about or execute?: layoffs
designed to effect
I like the fact that the perl documentation is peppered
with correct uses of effect as a verb.
I doubt the wisdom of continuing to talk about Y2K compliance,
here in Y2K+5. We could talk about Y2100 compliance.
Note that the $year element is Inot simply the last two digits of
-the year.
I tried to keep my mouth shut (Steve Hay can verify that).
There's a distinction between maintaining accepted use of
words from eliminating all possibility of misunderstanding
them. Should we eliminate it's and its and their
and there and they're because somebody can't get them
straight? After
On 7/28/05, John P. Linderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is there any significant difference between perl and Perl?
That is exactly the sort of edge case that is under discussion in
this thread. One possibility is maintaining an explicit glossary.pod file
which would not only answer that
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 02:55:10PM -0500, David Nicol wrote:
I like the fact that the perl documentation is peppered
with correct uses of effect as a verb.
I doubt the wisdom of continuing to talk about Y2K compliance,
here in Y2K+5. We could talk about Y2100 compliance.
I think folks
I doubt the wisdom of continuing to talk about Y2K compliance,
here in Y2K+5. We could talk about Y2100 compliance.
Actually the next crisis is the 2039 problem (which will be utterly
ignored because Y2K was such a bust :-).
Microsoft is no doubt licking its chops and waiting for 2039
since
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 06:58:35PM -0400, Horsley, Tom wrote:
And therefore only Linux will have the 2039 bug.
s/Linux/Unix/
Please let's not start confusing Linux with Unix or Redhat with Linux or
Windows with computers on p5p, too.
--
Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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