On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 01:17:27AM +0000, Dave Mitchell wrote: > On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 05:22:46PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 01:46:06PM +0000, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> > > Nothing ventured, nothing lost. > > > > Oooh. A mission statement for maint. :-) > > Hmm, perhaps that means I've got the mental aptitude to be a maint pumpkin? > On the other hand, considering what a scary thing I've just done to > perly.*, I think I'm automatically disqualified :-) Yes, but after what I did just before 5.8.2, I should be disqualified. > PS. having spent all of Valentine's day sorting out parser issues, I > suspect that perhaps I need to get a life ;-) Yes, but I spent a lot of it converting Ton Hospel's perl gunzip prototype into a pure perl emulation of Compress::Zlib's inflate routine. I got to write some code using this lovely language "perl". Have you heard of it? I think that I should do this more often, as it was fun. Nicholas Clark PS "perl" must be OK, as it lets me exit a subroutine with last, and supports goto :-)
