Re: Flexible parsing (was Tying & Overloading)

2001-04-28 Thread Larry Wall
Dan Sugalski writes: : I hadn't really considered having a separate module for each type of site : policy decision. Er, neither had I. Each site only has one policy file. I just want it named after the actual site, not some generic name like "Policy". I think policy files are inherently non-p

Re: a modest proposal Re: s/./~/g

2001-04-28 Thread Damian Conway
> : Hey, that would make "_ _ __" legal Perl code. Abigail, Abigail! > > Now we just need to make "... ___ ..." mean something exceptional. Just download the Bleach.pm module from the CPAN. It includes Morse.pm. Damian ---cut---cut---cut---cut---

Re: Flexible parsing (was Tying & Overloading)

2001-04-28 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 01:51 PM 4/27/2001 -0700, Larry Wall wrote: >Dan Sugalski writes: >: Besides, having the site administrator forbid the installation of parser >: tweaks might not be what is wanted. If we get PPython in there, a site may >: well have a Python.pm module handy, and source might start: >: >:use

Re: Flexible parsing (was Tying & Overloading)

2001-04-28 Thread Larry Wall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: :> use OReilly::Policy; :> :> or :> :> use Mongolian::Navy::ProcurementOffice::Policy; :> :> might be more in order. : : You Americans and your non-ISO penchant for putting the specific before : the general. Surely that should be: :

Re: a modest proposal Re: s/./~/g

2001-04-28 Thread Larry Wall
Simon Cozens writes: : Hey, that would make "_ _ __" legal Perl code. Abigail, Abigail! Now we just need to make "... ___ ..." mean something exceptional. : (I still prefer ~, but acknowledge that this is just bikeshed painting.) Bikesheds need to be painted occasionally. Larry

Re: Flexible parsing (was Tying & Overloading)

2001-04-28 Thread Damian Conway
> I think we have to be careful here. We should ask people to name site > policy files after their site, and not use a generic name like > "site_policy", since we'd be likely to end up with 20 different > "standard" site_policy files wandering around the net. So something > like