On Friday 16 July 2004 18:23, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> > Please take my words as my understanding, ie. with no connection to
> > mathmatics or number theory or whatever. I'll just say what I
> > believe is practical.
>
> [...]
>
> > I'd believe that infinity can be integer, ie. has no num
Dave Whipp wrote:
"Rod Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Uhm, my impression was that most of the "huffmanization" discussion was
centered around declaring a file handle to be read only, write only,
read-write, exclusive, etc. Masking the file handle with what bas
"Rod Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Uhm, my impression was that most of the "huffmanization" discussion was
> centered around declaring a file handle to be read only, write only,
> read-write, exclusive, etc. Masking the file handle with what basically
> amount
Dave Whipp wrote:
I was thinking about the discussions about the "open" function, and of the
capabilities of "string"s.
Given that we'll have things like $str.bytes, etc. It doesn't seem a stretch
to suggest that we could also have $str.lines. Once we have that, and also a
level of pervasive lazine
"Andrew Shitov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> DW> my $text is TextFile("/tmp/bar");
> DW> $text = "hello"; # writes, truncates
> DW> $text ~= ", world\n"; # appends
>
> DW> $text.print "again\n"; # for old-times sake
>
> Anyhow we still need $text.flush() or
DW> my $text is TextFile("/tmp/bar");
DW> $text = "hello"; # writes, truncates
DW> $text ~= ", world\n"; # appends
DW> $text.print "again\n"; # for old-times sake
Anyhow we still need $text.flush() or $text.close() methods.
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I was thinking about the discussions about the "open" function, and of the
capabilities of "string"s.
Given that we'll have things like $str.bytes, etc. It doesn't seem a stretch
to suggest that we could also have $str.lines. Once we have that, and also a
level of pervasive laziness (lazy evaluati
