Can I get a .car and a .cdr please? In my limited mind key and value
are specific to hashes and their wimpy brother associative lists.
-sam
Can I get a what what?
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Damian Conway wrote:
A false economy. We should encourage Larry as often as we can.
After all, is it any wonder that it's so long between Apocalypses when
every time he releases one, he gets nothing but negative feedback?
Hm, that never occured to me. In that case, let
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, ivan wrote:
http://www.ora.com/news/vhll_1299.html
Fascinating article, but his point about XML source code struck my funny
bone. I've certainly heard the argument before - most recently in Dr.
Dobbs Software Development insert.
I've got just one question: if this is such
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Adam Turoff wrote:
Don't laugh. It's here now. It's called XSLT. :-)
Um, that's not what the article was talking about The proposal is to use
an XML syntax to program in existing VHLL languages, including Perl.
This would supposedly allow programmers to embed drawings
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Adam Turoff wrote:
Who said programming Perl in XML was a good idea?
Did you read the article I was responding to? I suggest you do.
Strangely, many people seem to believe XML is ideally suited to every
computing task known to man. This includes programming in Perl,
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Dan Brian wrote:
program XSLT in XML? What does that mean?
It means roughly what program Perl in ASCII means.
Have you used XSLT? Do you understand what it is and what it does? It
makes quite a bit of sense for those performing regular conversions
from a single data
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Me wrote:
Yes. But if the syntax for arrays and db data are to
be simultaneously the same and as ideal as possible,
then either the core array syntax needs to be relatively
ideal for relational db data, or one needs to redefine
the array syntax to match a created db
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Me wrote:
Agreed. So long as you are talking about Perl 5's arrays.
I disagree, if you are talking about 2 dimensional structures.
You appear to have some fundamental misunderstanding about Perl 5. Perl 5
does indeed support multidimentional arrays:
my @matrix = ( [
On Thu, 10 May 2001, David Grove wrote:
The changes are beautiful. It's calling it Perl and relying on subliminal
pursuasion to ask users to consider it the same that bothers me. That's a
very Microsoftish tactic.
No, it's Perl 6. If you want Perl 5 or even Perl 4 you know where
to find it.
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Bart Lateur wrote:
Actually, it's pretty common. Only, most languages are not as forgiving
as perl, and what is merely a warning in Perl, is a fatal error in those
languages. Trying to read the value of an uninitialized variable, for
example, that's commonly a fatal
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 05:32:50PM -0500, Sam Tregar wrote:
Examples? I know you're not talking about C or C++. I'm pretty sure
you're not talking about Java - exception-handling renders the term "fatal
error" almost meaningle
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:
I think I've heard you state that before. Can you be more specific? What
alternate system do you have in mind? Is this just wishful thinking?
This isn't just wishful thinking, no.
You picked the easy one. Maybe you can get back to the other two
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
Limbo, the systems programming language of Inferno, nee Plan 9, nee UNIX.
http://www.vitavuova.com/inferno/papers/limbo.html
What are your thoughts about Limbo? I did some Limbo programming a couple
of years back. I can't say I came out of the
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Glenn Linderman wrote:
I agree that undef and NULL have different semantics. However, this is
clearly SQL's fault and not Perl's. We shouldn't repeat their mistake
just because we occasionally have to interface with their system.
They are different. Neither is a
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Dave Storrs wrote:
"Unpack takes binary data in some particular format and
disassembles it, assigning various pieces of it to variables according to
formatting that you supply. Pack does the opposite, using your supplied
formatting to crunch Perl scalar variables
On 20 Sep 2000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
The absence of a Cnull concept and keyword in Perl makes it more
difficult to interface with relational databases and other medium which
utilize Cnull. Modules such as CDBI must map Cnull to Cundef,
which is an imperfect match.
Does it really make
On 19 Sep 2000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
Distinguish packed binary data from printable strings
What defines a "printable" string? What if I'm working in an environment
that can "print" bytes that yours can't? Specifically I'm wondering how
this proposal handles Unicode.
-sam
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Perhaps someone could attempt to write an explaination of pack and
unpack in completely Perl terms. No bits, no ints, no nybbles, no
IEEE floating point arithmetic, no prior knowledge of C necessary.
Those are not Perl. Scalars, arrays, hashes,
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, David L. Nicol wrote:
Perl looks, and AFAIK has always looked, like "C plus lune noise" to
many people.
I think Perl looks like "C plus moon noise" to former C programmers. I
imagine some people see it and think "Csh plus Awk noise". Perl is a lot
more than
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, David L. Nicol wrote:
We're talking about making a faster Perl. C's syntax requires enough
clarity to compile to something quick. it is a very short hop from
my dog $spot;
to
dog spot;
What about the second version would result in faster execution? Do
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Nathan Wiger wrote:
With URI support, you still have to contort a little, but not as much.
Here's some better examples from an email I sent earlier:
$fo = open "file://c/docs/personal";
# Unix = /docs/personal# here, 'c' becomes '/'
# Mac =
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