wrote:
> In comp.lang.perl.misc John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[ @55, |@#~~|!! ]
> Oh please let him use an ass...
Ok, he is allowed to use ass in examples, e.g. (Perl)
s/ass/domesticated donkey/g;
(Maybe to explain \b ? )
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In comp.lang.perl.misc John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you had really any point, you didn't need to swear in every third
> sentence. Nor bother so many groups with your rants.
> If you think it can be done better, pick up a part of documentation, and
> rewrite it. To make it very har
Xah Lee wrote:
> I respect people
and I was convinced he was going to show different:
> The software community, is one fucked up ball, and in part, because
just one person sees the light...
> people respect not people nor truth. They respect their own asses,
Then you must be the #1 fine exam
, either personally or as part of the
Python collective, to behave properly.
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Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 20:23:35 -0400
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Mike Meyer wrote:
> After doing a google for "regular expression greedy", the second match
> starts with the text:
>
> By default, pattern matching is greedy, which means that the matcher
> returns the longest match possible.
>
> Now, it can be argued that the term ought not to be used,
Peter> And which, at least implicitly, defines "greedy" by in section
Peter> 6.3 titled "Greedy versus Non-Greedy". It's not perfect, but
Peter> then nobody in this thread has offered anything even remotely
Peter> resembling perfect documentation for regular expressions
Peter>
Mike Meyer wrote:
> As I've suggested before, what's really needed is a short tutorial on
> regular expressions in general. That page could include a definition
> of terms that are unique to regular expressions, and the re package
> documentation could link the word greedy to that definition.
You
wrote:
> When used in terms of Usenet, I think it can be applied in the sense
> of 'a troll who is greedy for attention'.
>
> Hence the saying 'do not feed the troll'.
Unless you can cause a buffer overflow :-D
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In comp.lang.perl.misc Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Let me expose one another fucking incompetent part of Python doc, in
> illustration of the Info Tech industry's masturbation and ignorant
> nature.
> Note the need to inject the high-brow jargon “greedy” here as a
> latch on sentence.
"Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Let me expose one another fucking incompetent part of Python doc, in
> illustration of the Info Tech industry's masturbation and ignorant
> nature.
What you actually expose is your own ignorance.
> Note: “In other words, the "|" operator is never greedy.”
Ron Adam rote:
> I suppose that if you respectfully offer something even a little better
> it would be respectfully accepted, after due review of course. You will
> probably even get many helpful suggestions along they way because you
> will have created a situation where every one wins.
Remar
Xah Lee wrote:
> Let me expose one another fu
Hello Xah,
I think you will continue to have difficulty getting respect on this
matter as long as you show disrespect to those who have come before you.
When you refer to the documentation as being f'ing stupid, and other
disrespectful terms, y
Xah Lee wrote:
> Let me expose one another fucking incompetent part of
your writing capablities?
If you really had a point, there wouldn't be any need of swearing...
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On Saturday 07 May 2005 04:28 pm, Xah Lee wrote:
> Note: âIn other words, the "|" operator is never greedy.â
>
> Note the need to inject the high-brow jargon âgreedyâ here as a
> latch on sentence.
The first definition of "jargon" in the Collaborative International Dictionary
of English is:
"To
Let me expose one another fucking incompetent part of Python doc, in
illustration of the Info Tech industry's masturbation and ignorant
nature.
The official Python doc on regex syntax (
http://python.org/doc/2.4/lib/re-syntax.html ) says:
--begin quote--
"|"
A|B, where A and B can be arbitrary R
This is nice! I just might understand regex eventually.
Xah Lee wrote:
> erratum:
>
> the correct URL is:
> http://xahlee.org/perl-python/python_re-write/lib/module-re.html
>
> Xah
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Xah> I don't know what kind of system is used to generate the Python
Xah> docs, but it is quite unpleasant to work with manually, as there
Xah> are egregious errors and inconsistencies.
The main Python documentation is written in LaTeX. I believe most, if not
all, HTML is generated b
erratum:
the correct URL is:
http://xahlee.org/perl-python/python_re-write/lib/module-re.html
Xah
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HTML Problems in Python Doc
I don't know what kind of system is used to generate the Python docs,
but it is quite unpleasant to work with manually, as there are
egregious errors and inconsistencies.
For example, on the âModule Contentsâ page (
http://python.org/doc/2.4.1/lib/node111.html ), the c
To add to what others have said:
* Typos and lack of spell-checking, such as "occurances" vs "occurrences"
* Poor grammar, such as "Other characters that has special meaning
includes:"
* You dropped version-related notes like "New in version 2.4"
* You seem to love the use of s, while docs.py
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
>
>
>>I have now also started to rewrite the re-syntax page. At first i
>>thought that page needs not to be rewritten, since its about regex and
>>not really involved with Python. But after another look, that page is
>>as incompetent as every other page of Py
Xah Lee wrote:
> Extra point: If the Python command line interface is actually a robust
> application, like so-called IDE e.g. Mathematica front-end, then things
> are very different. In reality, the Python command line interface is a
> fucking toy whose max use is as a simplest calculator and dou
alex23 wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
>
>>99% of programers really don't need to give a flying fuck about the
>>history of a language.
>
>
> Ironically, I'm pretty confident that the same percentage of readers on
> this group feel _exactly the same way_ about your 'improvements'.
>
> -alex23
>
I take
Xah Lee wrote:
> 99% of programers really don't need to give a flying fuck about the
> history of a language.
Ironically, I'm pretty confident that the same percentage of readers on
this group feel _exactly the same way_ about your 'improvements'.
-alex23
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Xah Lee wrote:
> I have now also started to rewrite the re-syntax page. At first i
> thought that page needs not to be rewritten, since its about regex and
> not really involved with Python. But after another look, that page is
> as incompetent as every other page of Python documentation.
>
> The
I have now also started to rewrite the re-syntax page. At first i
thought that page needs not to be rewritten, since its about regex and
not really involved with Python. But after another look, that page is
as incompetent as every other page of Python documentation.
The rewritten page is here:
htt
Re: http://xahlee.org/perl-python/python_re-write/lib/module-re.html
Bill Mill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Alright, I feel like I'm feeding the trolls just by posting in this
> thread. Just so that nobody else has to read the "revised" docs, no it
> doesn't:
I find that Lee's version compleme
On 4/18/05, Jeff Epler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 01:40:43PM -0700, Xah Lee wrote:
> > i have rewrote the Python's re module documentation.
> > See it here for table of content page:
> > http://xahlee.org/perl-python/python_re-write/lib/module-re.html
>
> For those who ha
send your feedbacks to Steve Holden. (http://www.holdenweb.com/)
If he deem it proper, he will paypal me $100 bucks, and you can thank
him for the instigation and betterment of the Python doc.
Meanwhile, feel free to incorporate my edits into python doc.
Xah
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On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 01:40:43PM -0700, Xah Lee wrote:
> i have rewrote the Python's re module documentation.
> See it here for table of content page:
> http://xahlee.org/perl-python/python_re-write/lib/module-re.html
For those who have long ago consigned Mr. Lee to a killfile, it looks
like he'
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