Re: Supercomma! (was Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos)

2002-11-10 Thread fearcadi
Larry Wall writes: But at the moment I'm thinking there's something wrong about any approach that requires a special character on the signature side. I'm starting to think that all the convolving should be specified on the left. So in this: for parallel(x, y, z) - $x, $y, $z {

Re: Supercomma! (was Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos)

2002-11-06 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 07:27:56PM -0800, Brian Ingerson wrote: : Mutt? : : I'm using mutt and I still haven't had the privledge of correctly viewing one : of these unicode characters yet. I'm gonna be really mad if you say you're : also using an OS X terminal. I suspect that it's my horrific OS

Re: Supercomma! (was Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos)

2002-11-06 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 11:36:45AM -0500, Ken Fox wrote: : Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: : : Um ... could we have a zip functor as well? I think the common case : will be to pull N elements from each list rather than N from one, M : from another, etc. So, in the spirit of timtowtdi: : : for

Re: Supercomma! (was Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos)

2002-11-05 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 03:21:54PM +1100, Damian Conway wrote: Larry wrote: But let's keep it out of the signature, I think. In other words, if something like for @x ∥ @y ∥ @z - $x, $y, $z { ... } is to work, then @result = @x ∥ @y ∥ @z; has to interleave @x, @y,

Re: Supercomma! (was Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos)

2002-11-05 Thread Ken Fox
Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: Um ... could we have a zip functor as well? I think the common case will be to pull N elements from each list rather than N from one, M from another, etc. So, in the spirit of timtowtdi: for zip(a,b,c) - $x,$y,$z { ... } sub zip (\:ref repeat{1,}) { my $max =

Re: Supercomma! (was Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos)

2002-11-05 Thread Damian Conway
Scott Duff wrote: Very nice. The n-ary zip operator. Um ... could we have a zip functor as well? Yes, I expect so. Much as C|, C, and C^ will be operator versions of Cany, Call, and Cone. And I'd suggest that it be implemented something like: sub zip(ARRAY *sources; $by = 1) { if

Re: Supercomma! (was Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos)

2002-11-04 Thread Larry Wall
[Note to all: yes, this is me, despite the weirdities of the quoting and headers. This is how it looks when I using mutt out of the box, because I haven't yet customized it like I have pine. But I do like being able to see my own Unicode characters, not to mention everyone else's. If you don't

RE: Supercomma! (was Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos)

2002-11-04 Thread Brent Dax
Larry Wall: (B# for @x $B!B(B @y $B!B(B @z - $x, $y, $z { ... } (B (BEven if you decide to use UTF-8 operators (which I am Officially (BRecommending Against), *please* don't use this one. This shows up as a (Bbox in the Outlook UTF-8 font. (B (B--Brent Dax [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Supercomma! (was Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos)

2002-11-04 Thread Brian Ingerson
On 04/11/02 17:52 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Note to all: yes, this is me, despite the weirdities of the quoting and headers. This is how it looks when I using mutt out of the box, because I haven't yet customized it like I have pine. But I do like being able to see my own Unicode

Re: Supercomma! (was Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos)

2002-11-04 Thread Damian Conway
Larry wrote: But at the moment I'm thinking there's something wrong about any approach that requires a special character on the signature side. I'm starting to think that all the convolving should be specified on the left. So in this: for parallel(x, y, z) - $x, $y, $z { ... } the

Supercomma! (was Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos)

2002-11-04 Thread Michael Lazzaro
On Monday, November 4, 2002, at 11:58 AM, Larry Wall wrote: You know, separate streams in a for loop are not going to be that common in practic, so maybe we should look around a little harder for a supercomma that isn't a semicolon. Now *that* would be a big step in reducing ambiguity... Or