Greetings

2002-03-11 Thread Luke Palmer
Hello everyone. I just subscribed to this list. My name's Luke and I'm a perl devotee. And I'm starting out with a bang. Here goes: I have just read through exegesis 3, and I found the bit about defining your own new operators (eg. operator:*#@&) to be a little strange. Not confusing, but esoter

Re: rethinking printf

2002-03-11 Thread Tony Hall
On 10 Mar 02 at 11:14:26PM, Uri Guttman wrote: > i really think that the printf format spec is so standard and ingrained > that changing it with # for % or requiring \% is not a good idea. > > but then again, backwards compatibility is not a rule you must always > obey. i just think in this case

Re: rethinking printf

2002-03-11 Thread ianb
On 10 Mar 02 at 11:14:26PM, Uri Guttman wrote: > i really think that the printf format spec is so standard and ingrained > that changing it with # for % or requiring \% is not a good idea. > > but then again, backwards compatibility is not a rule you must always > obey. i just think in this case