On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 20:16, Larry Wall wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:42:02PM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
> : /ab(c|b){$1 eq 'c'}/
> :
> : If I recall correctly you had said something like, "there is no plan
> : (yet) to allow embedded closures to affect matching directly, other than
>
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:42:02PM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
: Larry, while you're feeling chatty, I have a question about Perl 6
: regular expressions for you. You answered a question of mine, long ago
: with a correction. I had said something like:
:
: /ab(c|b){$1 eq 'c'}/
:
: If I reca
Aldo Calpini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Larry Wall wrote:
>> I suppose if I were Archimedes I'd have climbed
>> back out and shouted "Eureka", but as far as I know Archimedes never
>> made it to Italy, so it didn't occur to me...
>
> well, Archimedes *was* italian. for some meaning of italian,
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 05:17, Matthew Walton wrote:
> Also, climbing back out and shouting 'Eureka' would only really be
> appropriate if you actually had experienced a moment of revelation about
> something. I suspect you were too busy with the not drowning part for that.
Well, such moments of
Every once in a while some fascist proposes installing TV cameras in all
public places, and I think, "Oh, God! Nothing good can come of this!"
and resist heartily.
Larry Wall wrote:
The only bizarre and inexplicable thing that has occurred to me in the last week is that I fell
into a canal in V
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Larry Wall wrote:
: No, it means Larry's about to stun us with something seemingly bizarre
: and inexplicable which turns out to be a stroke of genius.
The only bizarre and inexplicable thing that has occurred to me in the
last week is that I fell into a canal in Venice. It wa
Larry Wall wrote:
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:35:27PM +0100, Matthew Walton wrote:
: Austin Hastings wrote:
: >Does this mean that we're done? :)
:
: No, it means Larry's about to stun us with something seemingly bizarre
: and inexplicable which turns out to be a stroke of genius.
The only biza
Larry Wall wrote:
I suppose if I were Archimedes I'd have climbed
back out and shouted "Eureka", but as far as I know Archimedes never
made it to Italy, so it didn't occur to me...
well, Archimedes *was* italian. for some meaning of italian, at least.
he was born in Syracuse (the one in Sicily, no
