On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 08:29:10PM -0500, David Nicol wrote:
> > Binary //
> >
> > The analogy to || is probably a bit too clever. My first reaction
> > was it's some sort of weird division operator. But it's servicable.
>
> It echoes the switch from | to / within the IETF RFC syntax declarati
Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Binary ;
>
> This worries me. Giving ; two meanings makes basic language parsing
> harder, which would be fine if there was a big payoff, but there's
> not. Just making shorthand for [[1,2,3],[4,5,6]] doesn't seem worth
> it. What am I missing here?
What you migh
Picked up from slashdot:
> I really dislike having a concatenation operator that's a valid identifier
> character. There's just no reason for it.
> And I don't completely buy the excuse that we're running out of punctuation
> characters. If you're going to jumble some of them up and talk about
> Or even
>
> for my $x (1..98) {
> for my $y (1..(99-$x)) {
> for my $z (1..(100-$x-$y)) {
> print "$x, $y, $z\n" if $x ** 2 = $y ** 2 + $z ** 2;
> }
> }
> }
Sure. Depending on whether you want combinations or permutations.
Damian
> "Damian" == Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Damian> Personally, I think:
Damian> foreach my $x (1..99) {
Damian> foreach my $y (1..99) {
Damian> foreach my $z (1..99) {
Damian> print "$x, $y, $z\n" if $x**2 == $y**2 + $z**2;
Damian>
At 09:52 PM 10/4/2001 +, Stephane Payrard wrote:
>Really hyper-operator is too long :)
>How do you say "mot valise" in English to denote this conflation of words,
>I think Lewis Caroll had a word for that.
I'm pretty sure you're looking for "Portmanteau"...
> >> Backtracking:
> >>
> >> Ok, I don't get it at all. Damian, clarification?
> >
> > Nothing to clarify. Larry punted (to a later Apocalypse).
> >
> > Okay. That's a cop-out. He's basically saying that you can write
> > C and C yourself as:
>
>
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Stephane Payrard wrote:
> Hyper operators with operands of different size are partly covered
> in A3:
>
>
> Hyper operators will also intuit where a dimension is missing from one
> of its arguments, and replicate a scalar value to a list value in that
> dimension. That
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> > Backtracking is at the heart of Logic Programming (or Declarative
> > Programming, if you like). This is one of the 3 main programming paradigms
> > (along with procedural and functional). The most popular Declarative
> > language is Prolog. It is
Hyper operators with operands of different size are partly covered
in A3:
Hyper operators will also intuit where a dimension is missing from one
of its arguments, and replicate a scalar value to a list value in that
dimension. That means you can say:
@a ^+ 1
The former example a pa
> At 02:18 PM 10/4/2001 +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
> >> ** Miscellaneous
> >>
> >> Why 'operator:+' instead of 'operator::+'? (Other than the
> >> potential verbosity required to declare operators within a
> >> particular package.) I would think it more int
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 06:35:51PM +1000, Jeremy Howard wrote:
> > I've been playing with Ruby, which has a similar feature. @foo is an
> > object instance variable. Inside a class definition, foo() is a
> > object method call on the current object. Outside it's a class method
> > call on the c
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 05:59:53PM +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
>> Hyperoperators:
>>
>> I sort of understand it, but don't really grok it. I can sort of
>> thing of ways it might eliminate the need for a few maps and
>> foreaches. Damian, might I request some clarification i
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 Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:17:38AM -0400, John Siracusa wrote:
> Hmmm...does anyone else remember when the suggestion that '.' continue to be
> used as the concat operator in Perl 6 was shouted down because it would
> require space on either side of it? It seems to me that we've come full
> circl
AP3 says:
> So, instead of:
>
>$a . $b . $c
>
> you'll say:
>
>$a _ $b _ $c
>
> The only downside to that is the space between a variable name and
> the operator is required. This is to be construed as a feature.
On 10/4/01 12:18 AM, Damian Conway wrote:
>> sub _mysub {}
>> $a = _mysub;
>
At 02:18 PM 10/4/2001 +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
>> ** Miscellaneous
>>
>> Why 'operator:+' instead of 'operator::+'? (Other than the
>> potential verbosity required to declare operators within a
>> particular package.) I would think it more intuitive to think of
>> 'opera
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 11:26:17PM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 01:24:13PM +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
> > >From E3:
> >
> > The doubling also helps it stand out better in code, in part
> > because it forces you to put space around the C<::> so that
Bart Lateur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] on 3 October 2001 12:05 wrote:
> But I really really doubt if there's any computer language in
> the world
C (C99 anyway[1]), C++[2], SQL99[3] to name but three
[1] _Pragma, _Complex,...
[2] bit_and, wchar_t, ...
[3] CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
Richard Cox
Senior S
Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Binary and unary dot:
>
> This makes me *very* happy. This is probably the best thing I've
> heard all day.
>
Seconded.
> I've been playing with Ruby, which has a similar feature. @foo is an
> object instance variable. Inside a class definition, foo() is a
> object m
> Hyperoperators:
>
> I sort of understand it, but don't really grok it. I can sort of
> thing of ways it might eliminate the need for a few maps and
> foreaches. Damian, might I request some clarification in Exogenesis?
Well, I'll probably clarify them in Exegesis instead.
"E
> Part of quitting smoking is that my hubris has gone back up.
> Here are critical first-impression notes on Apo3. Praise has
> been eliminated to save space.
A false economy. We should encourage Larry as often as we can.
After all, is it any wonder that it's so long between Apocalypse
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