Re: purge: opposite of grep

2002-12-06 Thread Tim Conrow
Michael Lazzaro wrote: I worry that C sounds too much like something class-related, and would confuse people. What about C or something? Decent thesaurus entries for include: assign, classify, comb, compartmentalize, discriminate, distribute, group, order, segregate, sift, winnow, amputate,

Re: p6d gatewayed by nntp.perl.org?

2002-12-03 Thread Tim Conrow
Simon Cozens wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Conrow) writes: I'm not seeing it. My problem, or is it not being mirrored yet? I'm reading it via NNTP. Right, I've got it now. Don't know why I didn't see it there before. -- Tim

p6d gatewayed by nntp.perl.org?

2002-12-02 Thread Tim Conrow
I'm not seeing it. My problem, or is it not being mirrored yet? -- Tim

Re: NaN semantics

2001-10-09 Thread Tim Conrow
logic in discussion of and around RFC 263, I think. -- -- Tim Conrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: General Feelings on Apoc 3

2001-10-09 Thread Tim Conrow
Brent Dax wrote: If we have 'and', 'or' and 'xor', can we have 'dor' (defined or) to be a low-precedence version of this? Oh man. If we've gone so far as 'dor', why not make it 'doh' :-) print stomach_state @beer,@donuts doh burp!!! -- -- Tim Conrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Math functions? (Particularly transcendental ones)

2001-09-13 Thread Tim Conrow
and quickly with the special case where x1. This may not be useful in an environment of pseudo-infinite precision, unless speed begins to matter alot. Maybe they could be called automagically when the compiler sees something like the RHS of the above as an optimization. -- -- Tim Conrow

Re: RFC 258 (v1) Distinguish packed binary data from printable strings

2000-09-19 Thread Tim Conrow
should make that more explicit. In a sense, it's already proposed to be sort of an extension, just one which is provided to everyone. Everyone's short of tuits, but I'd love to see some hint of where you think this causes problems. -- -- Tim Conrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: RFC 258 (v1) Distinguish packed binary data from printablestrings

2000-09-19 Thread Tim Conrow
the RFC)), Cread, Csysread, string-context bitwise ops plus Cselect and Cvec create "packed strings". If Unicode is commonly acquired or manipulated by any of those and meant to stay human readable, then there may be a conflict. -- -- Tim Conrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: RFC 258 (v1) Distinguish packed binary data from printablestrings

2000-09-19 Thread Tim Conrow
remove your only source of annoyance. I don't *think* I have a problem with doing that. -- -- Tim Conrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: RFC 258 (v1) Distinguish packed binary data from printable strings

2000-09-19 Thread Tim Conrow
Tom Christiansen wrote: Perhaps what you're truly looking for is a generalized tainting mechanism. Sounds cool, but I have only the vaguest idea what you (may) mean. Pointers? RFCs? Examples? Hints? -- -- Tim Conrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: RFC 258 (v1) Distinguish packed binary data from printable strings

2000-09-19 Thread Tim Conrow
Tim Conrow wrote: Tom Christiansen wrote: Perhaps what you're truly looking for is a generalized tainting mechanism. Sounds cool, but I have only the vaguest idea what you (may) mean. Pointers? RFCs? Examples? Hints? Sorry for the clutter, but I didn't want to come off too clueless. I