Re: regular expression negate a word (not character)

2008-01-25 Thread Ben Morrow
[newsgroups line fixed, f'ups set to clpm] Quoth Summercool [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Jan 25, 5:16 pm, Summercool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: somebody who is a regular expression guru... how do you negate a word and grep for all words that is tire but not snow tire or

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-20 Thread Ben Morrow
Quoth David Hopwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Pascal Costanza wrote: Chris Smith wrote: Types can be represented at runtime via type tags. You could insist on using the term dynamically tagged languages, but this wouldn't change a lot. Exactly _because_ it doesn't make sense in a statically

Re: Am I doing this wrong? Why does this seem so clumsy (time, datetime vs. DateTime)

2009-09-21 Thread Ben Morrow
[This is not a Perl question. F'ups set to c.l.python.] Quoth Schif Schaf schifsc...@gmail.com: The other day I needed to convert a date like August 2009 into a seconds-since-epoch value (this would be for the first day of that month, at the first second of that day). Note that this is not

Re: toy list processing problem: collect similar terms

2010-09-26 Thread Ben Morrow
Quoth p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon): It's too complex. Just write: (let ((list '((0 a b) (1 c d) (2 e f) (3 g h) (1 i j) (2 k l) (4 m n) (2 o p) (4 q r) (5 s t Unless you're going to talk about Perl, please take clpmisc out of the xpost. Ben --