RE: Character Properties

2002-10-21 Thread David Whipp
Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: Ok, how about this: Is there a reason Inot to? Or should I not go there? Off hand, it sounds expensive. I don't see a way to only let the people who use it incur the penalty, but my vision isn't the best in the world. It should be possible to define the

Re: Character Properties

2002-10-21 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:53 AM -0700 10/21/02, Austin Hastings wrote: Yeah, but emacs isn't written in any of those languages. What, you're using emacs as an argument *for* something? :-P And, FWIW, emacs is written in C. Granted a much macro-mutated version of C, but C nonetheless. --- Dan Sugalski [EMAIL

Re: Character Properties

2002-10-21 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Whipp) writes: It should be possible to define the bookmark methods on the basic string class to rebless the object onto a more powerful subclass. That makes it a doubly good candidate for modulehood. -- It's 106 miles from Birmingham, we've got an eighth of a tank

Re: Character Properties

2002-10-21 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 7:22 PM + 10/21/02, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: Dan Sugalski wrote : And, FWIW, emacs is written in C. Granted a much macro-mutated version of C, but C nonetheless. Just like Perl 5 ;-) Almost. At least perl 5's macros look like C. Emacs' macro horrors make C look like Lisp... --

Re: Character Properties

2002-10-21 Thread Luke Palmer
I didn't call the problem unreasonable, I was objecting to its characterization as an essential feature. It isn't. A useful thing, definitely, but there are a lot of those. It's hardly essential any more than, say, a hash that automagically maps to the current directory's files

Re: Character Properties

2002-10-21 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Dan Sugalski wrote : And, FWIW, emacs is written in C. Granted a much macro-mutated version of C, but C nonetheless. Just like Perl 5 ;-)

[ANNOUNCE] POOC v0.2

2002-10-21 Thread Michael Lazzaro
The Perl6 OO Cookbook, v0.2 is online. http://cog.cognitivity.com/perl6/ Changes include: [] *Much* better accuracy in most of the early recipes (better matching to Apos/Exes and perl6-language: see the 'Status' fields of each recipe.) More fixes coming very soon. [] Ability to annotate