Re: :)

2004-07-22 Thread Robin Berjon
but whitespace separates it from EOL. Please tell me you're serious. We could mimick XQuery where it is the comment terminator. http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/#comments -- Robin Berjon

Re: This week's Summary

2004-06-29 Thread Robin Berjon
, running it. Unfortunately I will be missing this historic event, I'm sure there'll be videos after the fact but is there any chance of getting a live video feed of it? The suspense is killing me... -- Robin Berjon

Re: Funky «vector» operator

2004-03-19 Thread Robin Berjon
as unlikely. Specifying the OS is not enough, you need at least the keyboard layout. It would be impossible to have shortcuts involving | or \ on a French keyboard since they are respectively Alt-Shift-L and Alt-Shift-: OS X / iBook / fr-fr « Alt-è » Alt-Shit-è -- Robin Berjon

Re: Perl 6 timeline?

2004-02-26 Thread Robin Berjon
chromatic wrote: With Apocalypse 12 (soon!) I'm sorry but this just begs for the question: (vaguely) how soon? :) I get all excited whenever I hear Perl and six in the same sentence, and it's building up to be unbearable ;) -- Robin Berjon

Re: Traits: to renew OO inheritance in a hacker style discussion

2004-02-12 Thread Robin Berjon
not there, they'll reinvent it, poorly. I'd use it for marshalling objects composed of many things to something that makes sense to someone else's idea of what they should be, eg an XML Schema. Pick what it's most alike to and marshall as that. -- Robin Berjon

Re: Semantics of vector operations

2004-01-29 Thread Robin Berjon
is better than the Unicode ones as the latter are way too long. They may not cover all the characters we need, but we can make up missing ones in a consistent fashion. -- Robin Berjon

Re: Semantics of vector operations

2004-01-29 Thread Robin Berjon
Damian Conway wrote: Robin Berjon wrote: Picking the HTML entity names is better than the Unicode ones as the latter are way too long. They may not cover all the characters we need, but we can make up missing ones in a consistent fashion. I fear there are too many missing ones for that. Any

Re: Next Apocalypse

2003-09-16 Thread Robin Berjon
My, is this a conspiracy to drag -internals onto -language to make it look alive? :) You guys almost made me drop my coffee mug... -- Robin Berjon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Research Scientist, Expway http://expway.com/ 7FC0 6F5F D864 EFB8 08CE 8E74 58E6 D5DB 4889 2488

Re: The Perl 6 Summary

2003-08-18 Thread Robin Berjon
that when a more definitive book is started, there will be much more time to ask all the interesting people for input. Please don't lose your motivation :) -- Robin Berjon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Research Engineer, Expwayhttp://expway.fr/ 7FC0 6F5F D864 EFB8 08CE 8E74 58E6 D5DB 4889 2488

Re: P6ML?

2003-03-26 Thread Robin Berjon
Austin Hastings wrote: --- Robin Berjon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it is creating a /toolset/ to make recuperating data from a quasi-XML (aka tag soup) then it is an interesting area of research. I can think of two approaches: - have a parametrisable XML grammar. By default it would really

Re: P6ML?

2003-03-26 Thread Robin Berjon
list to expose issues and solutions you may have. -- Robin Berjon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Research Engineer, Expwayhttp://expway.fr/ 7FC0 6F5F D864 EFB8 08CE 8E74 58E6 D5DB 4889 2488

Re: P6ML?

2003-03-26 Thread Robin Berjon
Andy Wardley wrote: Robin Berjon wrote: But as someone that also had to parse other people's random formats before we had XML, I would like to stress strongly the fact that the current situation is *much* better than it was. True, but you're also missing the point that XML is a festering pile

Re: P6ML?

2003-03-26 Thread Robin Berjon
to use it than say the Java folks. Those that didn't like it have created alternatives. *shrug* Perl as usual. -- Robin Berjon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Research Engineer, Expwayhttp://expway.fr/ 7FC0 6F5F D864 EFB8 08CE 8E74 58E6 D5DB 4889 2488

Re: Perl and *ML

2003-03-26 Thread Robin Berjon
representations aren't really trees, they're very cyclic. Some automata can treat a stream of events as a B-Tree being visited, but those are rather rare currently. -- Robin Berjon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Research Engineer, Expwayhttp://expway.fr/ 7FC0 6F5F D864 EFB8 08CE 8E74 58E6 D5DB 4889 2488

Re: P6ML? List of essential libs, please?

2003-03-26 Thread Robin Berjon
Austin Hastings wrote: --- Robin Berjon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To answer a question you asked on an earlier thread, this is one of the ways that Perl makes doing XML difficult. Q: What's the right CPAN lib to pull for parsing/rewriting XML? A: Look, we've got a plethora of XML libs, all

Re: P6ML? List of essential libs, please?

2003-03-26 Thread Robin Berjon
Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 05:02:00PM +0100, Robin Berjon wrote: Ask the people that use them? Didn't there used to be a stdlib mailing list for discussing this stuff? Yes, and it had even started well by trimming a long list of suggestions one by one (I think Nat

Re: Perl and *ML

2003-03-26 Thread Robin Berjon
Dan Sugalski wrote: At 4:47 PM +0100 3/26/03, Robin Berjon wrote: Fast and efficient graphs of all sorts would be very useful. A way to define a complex graph of interlinked arbitrary objects while being reasonable on memory and good with GC would be a definitive big win, especially if it can

Re: P6ML?

2003-03-26 Thread Robin Berjon
Andy Wardley wrote: Robin Berjon wrote: I just have yet to see someone point at one place where Perl 5 hinders XML processing in such a way that Perl 6 could help. (...) So instead of writing Perl programs to parse and manipulate XML, it should be possible to modify Perl itself so

Re: Perl and *ML

2003-03-26 Thread Robin Berjon
Stéphane Payrard wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 05:40:56PM +0100, Robin Berjon wrote: Efficient annotation and traversal would go a long way, but almost all useful XML representations have loops unfortunately. By loop you mean attributes declared by DTD as IDREFs and pointing to element having

Re: Perl and *ML

2003-03-26 Thread Robin Berjon
Kurt Starsinic wrote: On Mar 26, Robin Berjon wrote: DAGs wouldn't enough though, most XML tree representations aren't really trees, they're very cyclic. Pardon me? Could you please provide an example? XML per se, using an impoverished Information Set (no IDs) can be considered to be a tree

Re: P6ML?

2003-03-25 Thread Robin Berjon
be called P6ML. -- Robin Berjon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Research Engineer, Expwayhttp://expway.fr/ 7FC0 6F5F D864 EFB8 08CE 8E74 58E6 D5DB 4889 2488

Re: XML is Too Hard for Programmers = Tim Bray

2003-03-18 Thread Robin Berjon
at the p6l level. We can already make very cool stuff using p5, and the grammar stuff in p6 ought to make the sort of while loop Tim Bray describes quite certainly doable as well. -- Robin Berjon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Research Engineer, Expwayhttp://expway.fr/ 7FC0 6F5F D864 EFB8 08CE 8E74 58E6

Re: XML is Too Hard for Programmers = Tim Bray

2003-03-18 Thread Robin Berjon
other post. -- Robin Berjon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Research Engineer, Expwayhttp://expway.fr/ 7FC0 6F5F D864 EFB8 08CE 8E74 58E6 D5DB 4889 2488

Re: XML is Too Hard for Programmers = Tim Bray

2003-03-18 Thread Robin Berjon
one broken tool (surprise!) doesn't mean there's no 'commitment to doing XML'. There is much commitment, including from MS, and people very rarely use XML-like formats. We are going OT *very* fast. -- Robin Berjon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Research Engineer, Expwayhttp://expway.fr/ 7FC0 6F5F D864

Re: any type

2002-11-29 Thread Robin Berjon
than the int/Integer, etc dichotomy and the fact that whatever accepts Object cannot take a primitive, and that what expects a primitive can't take its corresponding object. It would imho not be conceivable to not have auto-promotion here, lest we lose much dwimity. -- Robin Berjon [EMAIL

Re: Garbage collection (was Re: JWZ on s/Java/Perl/)

2001-02-12 Thread Robin Berjon
At 15:37 12/02/2001 -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: It *is* rare in OO perl, though. How many of the variables you use are really, truly in need of finalization? .1 percent? .01 percent? Less? Don't forget that you need to count every scalar in every array or hash, and every iteration over a block

Re: Garbage collection (was Re: JWZ on s/Java/Perl/)

2001-02-12 Thread Robin Berjon
At 17:33 12/02/2001 -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 11:28 PM 2/12/2001 +0100, Robin Berjon wrote: Couldn't we simply (for non-implementer values of simply) provide a way for people to ask for finalization on an object ? Given that most of the time it isn't needed, it wouldn't be too much

Re: JWZ on s/Java/Perl/

2001-02-09 Thread Robin Berjon
At 16:16 09/02/2001 -0500, Ken Fox wrote: The general rule is the more space you "waste" the faster the collector is. If you have memory to spare, then don't run the garbage collector as often and your program will spend less total time garbage collecting. In other words, the collection cost per

Re: RFC 357 (v2) Perl should use XML for documentation instead of POD

2000-10-04 Thread Robin Berjon
At 08:36 04/10/2000 -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote: This RFC should either be retracted, or revised into: POD to XML translation should be easier On this subject, I have notes about a Pod::SAX module that would make pod2xml much easier. If I have time to implement it I'll do it, but I can't tell

Re: RFC 357 (v1) Perl should use XML for documentation instead of POD

2000-10-03 Thread Robin Berjon
At 10:59 03/10/2000 -0400, John Porter wrote: Complex things should not be done in POD. Indeed. This debate has been done to death. Have any of the would-be pod-killers read the thread at http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/1999-08/thrd11.html#0 1078 ? The thread eventually

Re: Stackable ties

2000-08-04 Thread Robin Berjon
At 16:24 03/08/2000 -0700, Peter Scott wrote: Is it at all possible to define interfaces for tie-ing that would facilitate stacking? Do we care? I think we should care, notably for tied handles. It would be very useful to be able to pipe ties easily. -- robin b. Always remember you're