Re: Query re: duction and precedence.

2008-03-30 Thread Darren Duncan
Mark J. Reed wrote: You anticipated me. So, is there a core method for foldl/foldr/inject/reduce, or do you have to roll your own as in p5? On 3/29/08, Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 10:18:53PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote: : In general, is : : [op] (p1,p2,p3,p4...) :

Getting Started - Synopsis

2008-03-30 Thread John M. Dlugosz
I've read copies of the Synopsis documents that I've found on the web somewhere. How do I synchronize with the life copies, and hack on them? --John

Getting Started - What to try?

2008-03-30 Thread John M. Dlugosz
I've installed the Win32 build of Pugs, but is appears to be incomplete. How do I get the real thing? I've also heard that Pugs is in stasis, so is this still a good way to write stuff and learn today? Likewise, how do I get synched up with the Parrot implementation? I understand the most

Re: Getting Started - Synopsis

2008-03-30 Thread Agent Zhang
On 30 Mar 2008 10:32:03 -, John M. Dlugosz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read copies of the Synopsis documents that I've found on the web somewhere. How do I synchronize with the life copies, and hack on them? Most of the Synopses are in the official svn repos,

Re: Query re: duction and precedence.

2008-03-30 Thread Mark J. Reed
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 useful, so I've never

Re: Getting Started - Synopsis

2008-03-30 Thread Ryan Richter
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 07:28:46PM +0800, Agent Zhang wrote: The latest HTML version of all the Synopses can be found at http://perlcabal.org/syn/ , which is automatically updated from both SVN repositories every one hour by a cron job running on feather. Actually, that cron job hasn't been

Re: Query re: duction and precedence.

2008-03-30 Thread Mark A. Biggar
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

S02 questions and comments

2008-03-30 Thread John M. Dlugosz
I'm reading S02.pod with version information: Last Modified: 17 Mar 2008 Number: 2 Version: 130 Meta-question 1: what is the succinct way to report this? Is the Version 130 enough? Meta-question 2: Does this belong on a different mailing list? I'm also including the documented file

Re: Query re: duction and precedence.

2008-03-30 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 08:21:39AM -0700, Mark A. Biggar wrote: The reduce meta-operator over - in APL gives alternating sum, similarly alternating quotient for /, which only works if you right associate things. [-] 1,2,3,4,5,6 = 1-2+3-4+5-6 # pseudo-apl [/] 1,2,3,4,5,6 =

Re: Query re: duction and precedence.

2008-03-30 Thread Luke Palmer
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

S02 questions and comments - unspace

2008-03-30 Thread John M. Dlugosz
Any contiguous whitespace (including comments) may be hidden from the parser by prefixing it with code\/code. ... using unspace lets you line up postfix operators: %hash\ .{$key} @array\ .[$ix] $subref\.($arg) What does the dotted form have to do with this? It just confuses the

Re: Getting Started - Synopsis

2008-03-30 Thread Agent Zhang
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Ryan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, that cron job hasn't been working for a long time... I've just checked the cronjob mails and it seems to me that the update-syn script is working fine. So the Synopses are still fresh :) I think you meant the

Re: S02 questions and comments

2008-03-30 Thread Agent Zhang
On 30 Mar 2008 16:35:56 -, John M. Dlugosz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm reading S02.pod with version information: Last Modified: 17 Mar 2008 Number: 2 Version: 130 Meta-question 1: what is the succinct way to report this? Is the Version 130 enough? The SVN revision number is