Re: r29121 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-11-18 Thread Ron
n should be: if the denominator equals 10**n, with n unsigned integer, .perl will produce a decimal number. Otherwise 1/30 would produce a decimal number like 0.033..., which was probably not intended. Regards, Ron

Re: r14574 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-08-13 Thread Ron
. Regards, Ron

Re: r14574 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-08-12 Thread Ron
n identifiers is The Right Thing (tm), I fail to come up with better examples for the use of ' in identifiers as $larry's-change. Is that the intended use of ' in identifiers. Thanks, Ron

Re: Closure vs Hash Parsing

2008-08-11 Thread Ron
uot;", $text; > > I'm thinking S04 probably needs some clarification/updating here. > Any block that contains a (placeholder) parameter probably needs > to remain a sub, even if the block content is a comma-separated list > starting with a pair/hash. But then, what will happen to this: %ret = map { { $^a => uc $^a } }, @arr; I would expect that to be the same as %ret = map -> $a { my %h={ $a => uc $a }; %h }, @arr; Regards, Ron

Re: pluralization idea that keeps bugging me

2008-01-28 Thread Ron
say "Received $m message{ 1==$m ?? '' !! 's' }." could then look like: say "Recieved {nominative({name=>'message',count=>$m})}." Maybe someone could find a more concise form if huffmanly desireable. Regards, Ron

Re: Some thoughts on threading

2005-12-14 Thread Ron Blaschke
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:18:47 +1300, Sam Vilain wrote: > On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 17:16 +0100, Ron Blaschke wrote: >> The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software." >> [1] He starts with "The biggest sea change in software development since >>

Some thoughts on threading

2005-12-08 Thread Ron Blaschke
ngularity Project." [3] In Singularity, processes are very lightweight, and communicate with each other through channels. Objects are owned by a single process only. The Java folks have revamped "The Java Memory Model." [4] Can't say much to that one, as I am not through with it y

RE: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-13 Thread Reidy, Ron
_DATE_COLUMN > ? > SOME_DATE_COLUMN is the database native date type. On Oracle you'll > need to convert the ? to a 'TO_DATE(?)'. No you do not. The SQL engine will perform an implicit commit of the data. - Ron Reidy Lead DBA Array BioPharma, Inc. &

RE: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-13 Thread Reidy, Ron
Sorry, instead of implicit 'commit', I mean to say implicit conversion. ----- Ron Reidy Lead DBA Array BioPharma, Inc. -Original Message- From: Reidy, Ron Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 9:06 AM To: Sam Vilain; Dean Arnold Cc: dbi-users@perl.org; dbi-dev@perl.

RE: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-07 Thread Reidy, Ron
ck this file, if I explicitly supply > username and password (this is obvious, right?) and show some warnings > if don't. Say, make a connect parameter "use_dot_dbi", which is zero by > default. > -- > Maxim Sloyko -- Ron Reidy Lead DBA Array BioPharma, Inc.