On 6/1/07, Ruud H.G. van Tol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John Macdonald schreef:
> "hash
> browned potatos" which is a hash of chopped potato, onion,
> and sometimetimes other things fried brown.
It's usually "hash browns" or "hashed browns", and I've always assumed
the former to be a shortened
John Macdonald schreef:
> "hash
> browned potatos" which is a hash of chopped potato, onion,
> and sometimetimes other things fried brown.
That comes from the French haché, meaning chopped. Best with lots of
small pieces of beef in it as well.
--
Groet, Ruud
On 6/1/07, Doug McNutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 09:15 -0700 6/1/07, Larry Wall wrote:
>: To conclude, as hash definitely tastes better than a dictionary, we
>: should stick to that name. ;)
>:
>: At least nobody can say that Perl is bad taste!
>
>Then maybe we should rename Array to Skewer o
Author: larry
Date: Fri Jun 1 12:44:27 2007
New Revision: 14412
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod
Log:
note that parsed/reparsed also influences whether trailing bracket is assumed
Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod
==
At 09:15 -0700 6/1/07, Larry Wall wrote:
>: To conclude, as hash definitely tastes better than a dictionary, we
>: should stick to that name. ;)
>:
>: At least nobody can say that Perl is bad taste!
>
>Then maybe we should rename Array to Skewer or Kabob or some such...
>
>Hmm, except it's hard to
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 06:52:37AM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
: On 6/1/07, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >Nope. Hash is mostly about meaning, and very little about implementation.
: >Please don't assume that I name things according to Standard Names in
: >Computer Science. I name things
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 06:05:58PM +0200, Thomas Wittek wrote:
: Daniel Hulme:
: >> Larry Wall:
: >>> I name things in English. Hash is just something that is disordered
: >
: >> I'm not a native english speaker, but I've never heard or read the word
: >> "hash" outside CS.
: >
: > you've never
Daniel Hulme:
>> Larry Wall:
>>> I name things in English. Hash is just something that is disordered
>
>> I'm not a native english speaker, but I've never heard or read the word
>> "hash" outside CS.
>
> you've never eaten "corned beef hash".
To conclude, as hash definitely tastes better than a
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 10:30:08AM -0400, John Macdonald wrote:
> > "...make a hash of things" (meaning, a mess)
> > "corned beef hash"
>
> That's two people that have given the same list, but both
> have omitted the more common (in modern times) phrase "hash
> browned potatos" which is a hash of
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 07:07:06AM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
>
> On Jun 1, 2007, at 5:44 , Thomas Wittek wrote:
>
> >Larry Wall:
> >>Nope. Hash is mostly about meaning, and very little about
> >>implementation.
> >>Please don't assume that I name things according to Standard Names
Let's not forget that the CS meaning of "hash" didn't spring forth
fully-formed from the skull of Donald Knuth or anything. A "hash
function" is so called because it "makes a hash of" the inputs. That
is, its output, while deterministic, is at first glance a random
rearrangement of the inputs. H
On Jun 1, 2007, at 5:44 , Thomas Wittek wrote:
Larry Wall:
Nope. Hash is mostly about meaning, and very little about
implementation.
Please don't assume that I name things according to Standard Names in
Computer Science. I name things in English. Hash is just something
that is disordered,
On 6/1/07, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nope. Hash is mostly about meaning, and very little about implementation.
Please don't assume that I name things according to Standard Names in
Computer Science. I name things in English.
Then why did we need a separate "use English" pragma? :)
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 11:44:53AM +0200, Thomas Wittek wrote:
> Larry Wall:
> > Nope. Hash is mostly about meaning, and very little about implementation.
> > Please don't assume that I name things according to Standard Names in
> > Computer Science. I name things in English. Hash is just someth
Larry Wall:
> Nope. Hash is mostly about meaning, and very little about implementation.
> Please don't assume that I name things according to Standard Names in
> Computer Science. I name things in English. Hash is just something
> that is disordered, which describes the associative array interfa
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