Use {...}. as the string returned is reinterpreted as a regex, if it consists
of the single quoted string then it's a literal, but you must include the
single quotes in the result returned. E.g.,
{ my $x = funct($a, $b, $c); '$x';}
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as far as possible if used as non-pair.
This makes sense to me, but I'd like to see any use cases to the
contrary, if anyone can think of one.
The only use case I can think of is sorting a list of pairs;
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OK, so let's look at the general problem. The structure
oops make that
last if !someCondition();
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loop {
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doSomethingElse();
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The literals for Bit are just 0 and 1.
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Darren ():
Bit
Blob
Set
Bag
Mapping
How does one write anonymous value
Perl 6 out the door. Let's just make sure we're handling
inf and -inf right and leave all that other stuff until later.
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Let's worry about getting principal values, branch cuts and handling signed
zeros correct before dealing with the interaction of junctions and multi-valued
complex functions.
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Most financial institutions don't use float, rational or fixed point, they just
keep integer pennies.
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Would any financial institution
Carl Mäsak wrote:
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I'm still in the dark... I find an positions for manhattan distance but no
definition of what that is. I did find the alternative pod page earlier.
I don't have a whole answer for you, but a part that may help. What is
generally meant by Manhattan distance is
presence of a role,
then falls back to a declared class inheritance and then falls
back to a declared emulation. What else should be in this check
sequence?
Do we need to consider boxed vs un-boxed, E.G. Int vs int?
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been cut.
And sometime you can't even do it syntactically:
Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
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Miller, Hugh wrote:
From: Moritz Lenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Technically the Cartesian cross operator doesn't have an
identity value.
It has.
The set which contains only the emty set, or in perl terms ([]);
Or am I missing something?
Should be a (any) 1 point set
Technically the Cartesian cross operator doesn't have an identity value. There
is no set X such that
A x X = A. Now any singleton set gives a result that is naturally isomorphic
to the original set, I.e, there is a obvious bijection between the two sets,
but they are not equal sets.
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Cartesain product with the empty set is empty. A x B is the set of all pairs
(a,b) where a is in A and b is in B. If either is empty then there are no such
pairs and the result is also empty.
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-- Original message
Mark J. Reed wrote:
I'm a believer in generalizing where possible, modulo the principles
of KISS and YAGNI. The latter essentially means at least make it
general enough that you can extend it later without major retooling if
it turns out YNIAA.. It's pretty surprising what can turn out to be
I think nearest makes more sense. People will be really surprised when
/1 turns into 0.
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HaloO,
just re-reading S03 I saw
in the language. Least
surprise would argue that == should be that operator. if you want to provide a
fuzzy comparison as a separate operator that fine.
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Besides ?? !! with out an else part is just .
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Mark J. Reed concluded:
So I prefer keeping a single construct, but perhaps
Thomas Wittek wrote:
Damian Conway schrieb:
If the very much more readable 'zip' and 'minmax' are
to be replaced with 'ZZ' and 'MM', then I think that's a serious step
backwards in usability.
Fully agree here and I think that there are still even more places,
where the usability could be
And you may be forced to deal with NaN and Inf values if you are storing raw
binary float values as they are built into the bit patterns.
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compared using
the Complex version of = gives the same result as using the Num version of
=. Note that you need this to work that way if you want Num to be a
subtype of Complex.
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Mark Biggar wrote:
Jonathan Lang wrote:
They can be:
$A $B if $A.x $B.x | $A.y $B.y;
$A $B if $A.x $B.x | $A.y $B.y;
That dosn't work.
Agreed. The above was written
the diamond inheritence problem.
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HaloO,
with my idea of deriving a type lattice from all role definitions
the problem of subtyping signatures arises
second type may want to be treated as reserved, or at least mention that
redefining them may break things in surprising ways.
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Carl Mäsak wrote:
Yobert Hey do you know what would be cool in perl 6
Yobert A special variable for when you do a for (@array) style loop
Yobert it would always have the index of the array
Discussed on #perl6: it's already quite easy in Perl 6 to loop with an
explicit index:
my @array = moose
or -1.
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Darren Duncan wrote:
Now, I didn't see them yet anywhere in Synopsis 3, but I strongly
recommend having negated versions of all these various types of equality
tests. Eg, !== for ===, nev for eqv, etc. They would be used very
frequently, I believe (and I have even tried to do so), and of
Markus Laire wrote:
ps. Should first element of scan be 0-argument or 1-argument case.
i.e. should list([+] 1) return (0, 1) or (1)
APL defines it as the later (1).
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filter (list [] @array) @array ==
first monotonically increasing run in @array
filter (list [=] @array) @array ==
first monotonically non-decreasing run in @array
That was 5 minutes of thinking.
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filter (list [] @array) @array ==
first monotonically increasing run in @array
filter (list [=] @array) @array ==
first monotonically non-decreasing run in @array
That was 5 minutes of thinking.
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How about Bag, a set container? Alternately what we really want is
just a Hash where the type of the value is defined as 1, so it need
not be stored at all. Then most of the syntax for it just falls out
of Hash syntax, unless you like writing $x ∈ $bag instead of $bag{$x}.
Presumably we
Isn't this what POD is for?
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-- Original message --
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Perl6 could introduce (lexical, nestable) comment scope.
Has that been discussed before
of signed zero correct then to worry about trying to return multiple
values in these cases. For a through discussion see either the Ada or
Common Lisp reference manuals.
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, which is an inheirently assymeterical (thus
non-communitive) situation.
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Juerd wrote:
Rob Kinyon skribis 2005-11-23 11:58 (-0500):
I don't use 0..$n-1 very often. I use 0..$#arr most often.
Good point. Doesn't ^5 encourage [EMAIL PROTECTED] too much? After all, we
should
write what we mean, instead of something that happens to evaluate to the
same list. We mean
Has any FOSS developer ever been found liable (or even sued)?
Not that I have any objections to this plan but it might be worth
considering that it's much easier to sue a single entity then it is to
file a tort against a few tens or hundreds of contributors.
Yes, the guy who wrote an open
Alfie John wrote:
Hi (),
This is probably a stupid question, but I can't find anything from google:
Does Perl6 support multiline comments?
Briefly, No and kind of.
Standard Perl 6 comments are just like those in Perl 5. A '#' starts a
comment that is terminated by the end of line. But,
Damian Conway wrote:
Rather than addition Yet Another Feature, what's wrong with just using:
for @list ¥ @list[1...] - $curr, $next {
...
}
???
Damian
Shouldn't that be:
for [EMAIL PROTECTED], undef] ¥ @list[1...] - $curr, $next {
...
}
As I remember it zip hrows
Mark A. Biggar wrote:
Damian Conway wrote:
Rather than addition Yet Another Feature, what's wrong with just using:
for @list ¥ @list[1...] - $curr, $next {
...
}
???
Damian
Shouldn't that be:
for [EMAIL PROTECTED], undef] ¥ @list[1...] - $curr, $next
In a private conversation with Larry this afternoon, he said that by
default $foo and ~$foo and $foo.as(Str) all give the same result
(assuming scalar context, etc.). And that @foo[] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
@foo.as(Str) are the same as join(' ', @foo) where join is effectively:
sub
Joshua Hoblitt wrote:
a) live with it
b) change the magic number to be two identical bytes so the byte
ordering doesn't matter
c) shrink the magic number to be a single byte
d) use a magic number that can also be used as the byte order indicator.
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Eric wrote:
Hey,
Since you wouldn't expect an object to stringify or numify why expect pairs
to? I'm not sure i see any value in thatm, $pair.perl.say would be the best
way to output one anyway.
my $pair1 = (a = 2);
my $pari2 = (b = 3);
say $pair1 + $par2; # Error: illegal stringification of
meaning.
besides if you really want it just define a macro.
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Today on #perl6 I complained about the fact that this is always
inelegant:
if ($condition) { pre }
unconditional midsection;
if ($condition
I think this deserves at least a compile time warning and also a strict pragma
to make it an error as it is most likely not what the programmer wanted.
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Ingo Blechschmidt skribis 2005-08-31 13:22 (+):
@array
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 08:47:18AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
: That could be made to work by defining constant to mean you can assign
: to it if it's undefined. But then it gets a little harder to reason
: about it if $pi
Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 06:47:41PM -0600, zowie wrote:
There is also a certain joy that comes from noticing that a tool was
designed by pedants:
it's great that cal(1) handles the Gregorian reformation correctly
(or at least, in one
of several arguably correct ways)
Luke Palmer wrote:
On 8/10/05, Dave Rolsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[changing the subject line for the benefit of the summarizer ...]
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Larry Wall wrote:
And now some people will begin to wonder how ugly set values will look.
We should also tell them that lists (and
Mark A. Biggar wrote:
Luke Palmer wrote:
On 8/10/05, Dave Rolsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[changing the subject line for the benefit of the summarizer ...]
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Larry Wall wrote:
And now some people will begin to wonder how ugly set values will look.
We should also tell
Larry Wall wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 06:28:22PM +0200, TSa (Thomas Sandlaß) wrote:
: Since we are in type hierachies these days, here's my from ::Any
: towards ::All version.
That's pretty, but if you don't move Junction upward, you haven't
really addressed the question Autrijus is asking.
Luke Palmer wrote:
On 14 Jun 2005 06:07:10 -, David Formosa (aka ? the Platypus)
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multi sub infix_circumfix_meta_operator:{'',''} (Hash %a,Hash %b,Code $op) {
my Hash %return;
for intersection(keys %a,keys %b) - $key {
%return{$key} =
, unless we can come up with
cases that really need anything more complicated.
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-- Original message --
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 12:58:01AM -0400, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
[ set notation for character
Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
On May 25, Mark A. Biggar said:
Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 11:24:50PM -0400, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
I wish !prop X was allowed. I don't see why !... has to be
confined to zero-width assertions.
I don't either actually. One thing
wolverian wrote:
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 03:44:43PM +0200, Juerd wrote:
But I like the newly suggested feather better, as it can relate to
pugs AND parrot.
Feather is best one thus far, I think. I like carrot too; it's more
playful. I equate Pugs with fun a lot.
How about budgie. a small
)*B + (A rem B)
where (A rem B) has the sign of A and an absolute value less than the
absolute value of B. Signed integer division satisfies the identity:
(-A)/B = -(A/B) = A/(-B)
It does have a right side identity of +INF.
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John Macdonald wrote:
Is there a built-in operator that doesn't have a meaningful
identity value? I first thought of exponentiation, but it has
an identity value of 1 - you just have to realize that since
it is a right associative operator, the identity has to be
applied from the right.
Well the
Mark A. Biggar wrote:
Well the identity of % is +inf (also right side only).
I read $n % any( $n..Inf ) == $n. The point is there's no
unique right identity and thus (Num,%) disqualifies for a
Monoid. BTW, the above is a nice example where a junction
needn't be preserved :)
If as usual
Matt Fowles wrote:
All~
What does the reduce metaoperator do with an empty list?
my @a;
[+] @a; # 0? exception?
[*] @a; # 1? exception?
[] @a; # false?
[||] @a; # false?
[] @a; # true?
Also if it magically supplies some correct like the above, how does it
know what that value is?
The usual
Stuart Cook wrote:
To summarise what I think everyone is saying, []-reducing an empty
list yields either:
1) undef (which may or may not contain an exception), or
2) some unit/identity value that is a trait of the operator,
depending on whether or not people think (2) is actually a good idea.
The
I don't understand why you think you need the eval here?
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There is syntax to define trait and properties
but is there an API?
my $b = eval '$a but true'; # setting a true property
# API to do it without an eval
empty string and there won;t be a empty string in the list before it,
I.e,
split /(..)/, 12345 returns (''. '12', '', '34', '5');
This is another of those cases where the computer did exactly what you ask it
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Autrijus Tang
Dino Morelli wrote:
I'm working on more p6rules unit tests.
Having some trouble. First, understanding when :w means \s* and when it
means \s+
Also, these tests are failing when I use :: to separate the modifier
from the pattern. But they work when I do ':w blah' (separate with a
space). I'm not
peren counting semantics.
I wonder how much call there will be for a rule option that uses P6
syntax but P5 paren binding with push semantics.
Just add a :flat
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On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 02:08:31PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
: Hmmm, then would $x.$j.2 then be equivalent to $x[$j-1][1] ?
Ouch.
Larry
on right now is the carry over of the meaning from perl5 of p1 xor p2 xor p3
which happens to be the same as p1 xor (p2 xor p3)), I.e., built from a
binary right-associative xor op.
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Juerd wrote:
Juerd skribis 2005-05-06 18:24 (+0200):
|AVAILABLE any()
We can use this for labels:
|foo| for ... {
while ... {
...;
next foo if ...;
}
}
It'll confuse the heck out of Ruby coders, but I do like this syntax. It
makes
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I see here another case of a common erroneous approach to
problem-solving. People are trying to enumerate definitions to impose
on something, rather than starting with the thing at hand and
exhausting any clues it may provide before moving on. This can lead to
serious
Matt wrote:
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 07:25:10 -0400, Juerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matt skribis 2005-04-22 21:55 (-0400):
What about . for each level up you want to go?
instead of 1.say, 2.say, 3.say
you use .say, ..say, ...say
(Ok, I'm just kidding.. really!)
I read your message after I suggested
Larry Wall wrote:
I should point out that we're still contemplating breaking .foo() so it
no longer means $_.foo(). I wish there were more keys on my keyboard...
I know it's a bit counter-cultural, but at the moment I'm wondering
if we can make this work instead:
given open 'mailto:[EMAIL
BÁRTHÁZI András wrote:
Randal,
BÁRTHÁZI use CGI;
BÁRTHÁZI set_url_encoding('utf-8');
BÁRTHÁZI The problem is that use CGI automagically initializes the
parameters
BÁRTHÁZI *before* I set the encoding of them, so set_url_encoding
will run too
BÁRTHÁZI late.
Did I miss the memo where anything
BRTHZI Andrs wrote:
Hi,
This code:
my $a='A';
$a ~~ s:perl5:g/A/{chr(65535)}/;
say $a.bytes;
Outputs 0. Why?
Bye,
Andras
\u is not a legal unicode codepoint. chr(65535) should raise an
exception of some type. So the above code does seem show a possible
bug. But as that chr(65535) is an
BRTHZI Andrs wrote:
Hi,
This code:
my $a='A';
$a ~~ s:perl5:g/A/{chr(65535)}/;
say $a.bytes;
Outputs 0. Why?
\u is not a legal unicode codepoint. chr(65535) should raise an
exception of some type. So the above code does seem show a possible
bug. But as that chr(65535)
Isn't that what the difference between byte-level and codepoint-level access to
strings is all about. If you want to work with values that are illegal
codepoints then you should be working at the byte-level not the
codepoint-level, at least by default.
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to use
pack instead. We really need both conversion functions and chr() can't be both.
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Hi,
BÁRTHÁZI András wrote:
It's interesting, and it can be the problem, but I think, the CGI.pm
way is not the good solution
Rod Adams wrote:
Ashley Winters wrote:
For documentary purposes, can we make that $radians?
multi sub cos (Num +$degrees) returns Num {
return cos :radians($degrees * PI / 180);
}
my Num $x = cos :degrees(270);
I have changed the trig functions it to have an optional base
argument. (I'm
stuff grab :-)
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-- Original message --
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 10:45:22AM -0500, Austin Hastings wrote:
: But I'd be willing to rename them to get/put.
If I went with get, the opposite would
Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
Jonathan Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ISAM?
From the RDBMS world, a kind of index I think, or something along
those lines. MySQL for example has a type of table called MyISAM.
Index Sequential Access Method
Invented by IBM in the '60s, provides fast random
Luke Palmer wrote:
Jeff Clites writes:
On Sep 7, 2004, at 6:26 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote:
*) Namespaces are hierarchical
So we can have [foo; bar; baz] for a namespace. Woo hoo and all
that. It'd map to the equivalent perl namespace of foo::bar::baz.
How does this hierarchical nature manifest? I
be easily a
dded to POD. Something like:
=(1.2.1) begin ...
just default any unspecified values to incrementing the last one.
A simple POD processor could just ignore them and a fancy one could
use them to reorder the section accordingly.
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Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 11:03 PM -0700 8/21/04, Steve Fink wrote:
I am experimenting with registering my own compiler for the regex
language, but the usage is confusing. It seems that the intention is
that compilers will return a code object that gets invoked, at which
time it runs until it hits an
Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
Michele Dondi wrote:
I must say I've still not read all apocalypses, and OTOH I suspect that
this could be done more or less easily with a custom function (provided
that variables will have a method to keep track of their history, or, more
reasonably, will be *allowed*
Sorry I did mean temp.
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Mark A. Biggar skribis 2004-06-29 9:07 (-0700):
Besides we already have MTOWTDI with local() and hypotheticals.
I thought temp replaced local. If not, how do they differ? (is temp
Do we want a Normalization function here as well. If you have that you can use a
binary compare (at least for eq/ne).
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The charset vtable needs to handle get/set grapheme, get/set
substring, up/down/titlecase, and (possibly) comparison. Charsets
also have
Yeah, but I believe that at least Unicode has one of the four that they suggest
be used for non-locale specific comparisons (canonical decomposition form).
So pick that one for the core and provide the others (if necessary) as library
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. If I'm in the perl debugger, I'd want that to be a breakpoint
and give me the option to type in a evaluable string to replace it. So it should
throw a properly marked exception that an outer context can do something
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between getting the abs_time, doing the substract and actually setting up
the time as small, as possible you almost have to do this operation as
a builtin op. In fact you can argue that you want to lock out async events
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attribute and then
add your own writer as a multi-method.
has Str $.name;
multi method name(Str $n) {$.name = $n;}
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Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
chromatic wrote:
Perl.com has just made A12 available:
I started reading it last night, and ended up going to bed before I was
finished. But I just wanted to say that this:
With this dispatcher you can continue by saying next METHOD.
is the sort of
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
chromatic wrote:
Perl.com has just made A12 available:
I started reading it last night, and ended up going to bed before I was
finished. But I just wanted to say that this:
With this dispatcher you can continue by saying next METHOD.
is the sort of
routine, compiled only once and used EVERYWHERE. It also pays
to have a single routine for the other direction that has the property:
S = ftos(atof(S)) and F = atof(ftoa(F)). Otherwise you get obscure
very hard to find bugs.
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Its the old problem of rounding errors
Don't forget about cache invalidation on dynamic method redefinition.
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Okay, so it's method cache time.
First important note: I've never done this before (I think my
antipathy towards objects might've given everyone just the tiniest
clue :) so pointers
for that to
work. As Dan said this really need a separation between encoding and character set.
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At 12:28 AM +0100 3/16/04, Karl Brodowsky wrote:
Anyway, it will be necessary to specify the encoding of unicode in
some way, which could possibly allow even to specify even
the hardware clock. Windows insists that the
hardware clock be set to localtime, Solaris and most U*x's insist that
it be set to GMT, while Linus supports setting it to either. This also
means that the simple second-sense-epoc time() may not be so simple
after all.
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Damian Conway wrote:
Mark A. Biggar wrote:
What if I want to interpolate an empty string and let the fill
characters work?
Then you interpolate a single fill character instead of the empty string.
But that means I have to pre-process data lists that just happen to
contain empty strings so
Damian Conway wrote:
But that means I have to pre-process data lists that just happen to
contain empty strings so that they won't disappear on me.
Huh? An empty string already *has* disappeared on you. ;-)
This seems to violate least surprise.
I'd be much more surprised if an empty string
Larry Wall wrote:
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:59:15AM -0800, Gregor N. Purdy wrote:
: Smylers --
:
: So, what I'm looking for is more explicit phrasing around immediately
: above. In the example, the column range for the overflow field is
: exactly the same as that of the $method field in the
Luke Palmer wrote:
Mark A. Biggar writes:
Larry Wall wrote:
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:59:15AM -0800, Gregor N. Purdy wrote:
: Smylers --
:
: So, what I'm looking for is more explicit phrasing around immediately
: above. In the example, the column range for the overflow field is
: exactly
Damian Conway wrote:
Mark A. Biggar wrote:
Expect wouldn't that produce a extra blank line if $text is short?
Nope. Formats only generate text lines if at least one of their fields
interpolates at least one character.
Damian
What if I want to interpolate an empty string and let the fill
Leopold Toetsch wrote:
Jonathan Worthington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The other question is does Parrot care about the memory being zero'd out?
Isn't necessary. Executable mem is filled with ops anyway. Currently it
is zeroed to aid debugging a bit. It should be filled up with trap
operations of
Luke Palmer wrote:
I was reading the most recent article on perl.com, and a code segment
reminded me of something I see rather often in code that I don't like.
Here's the code, Perl6ized:
... ;
my $is_ok = 1;
for 0..6 - $t {
if abs(@new[$t] - @new[$t+1]) 3 {
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