Re: London.pm Dim sum Thursday 1pm: HK Diner
On Dec 17, 2008, at 22:56, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:31:56PM +, the hatter wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Christopher Jones wrote: Well, it is a special occasion after all Could Dim sum be turned into a 21st Birthday Party? Depends - are you bringing cake and jelly+ice cream ? Otherwise it's not a real birthday party. Will stripy jelly* for desert do? [Not available at every Dim Sum restaurant, so may not actually be at HK Diner. But nearly everywhere has ice cream. And Kake often comes] Nicholas Clark * Gosh. I typed that first with a g. I blame a certain IRC nickname. I'll come for strip gelly.
Re: London.pm Dim sum Thursday 1pm: HK Diner
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:31:56PM +, the hatter wrote: > On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Christopher Jones wrote: > > > Well, it is a special occasion after all > > > > Could Dim sum be turned into a 21st Birthday Party? > > Depends - are you bringing cake and jelly+ice cream ? Otherwise it's not > a real birthday party. Will stripy jelly* for desert do? [Not available at every Dim Sum restaurant, so may not actually be at HK Diner. But nearly everywhere has ice cream. And Kake often comes] Nicholas Clark * Gosh. I typed that first with a g. I blame a certain IRC nickname.
Re: London.pm Dim sum Thursday 1pm: HK Diner
On 17 Dec 2008, at 22:31, the hatter wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Christopher Jones wrote: Well, it is a special occasion after all Could Dim sum be turned into a 21st Birthday Party? Depends - are you bringing cake and jelly+ice cream ? Otherwise it's not a real birthday party. We had jelly at the first Dim sum I came along to. And I'm sure the Chinese invented ice cream. Or was that fireworks? Whatever, I don't think we'll need to bring our own. Chris. --- Gynaecological Research Laboratories, UCL EGA Institute for Women's Health, University College London, Paul O'Gorman Building, 72 Huntley Street, London WC1E 6DD United Kingdom Telephone; 020 3108 2007 Fax; 020 3108 2010
Re: London.pm Dim sum Thursday 1pm: HK Diner
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Christopher Jones wrote: > Well, it is a special occasion after all > > Could Dim sum be turned into a 21st Birthday Party? Depends - are you bringing cake and jelly+ice cream ? Otherwise it's not a real birthday party. the hatter
Re: London.pm Dim sum Thursday 1pm: HK Diner
On 16 Dec 2008, at 07:59, Léon Brocard wrote: We've been out a bit west recently, so it's time to head back into Chinatown and try a restaurant I've been meaning to visit. Well, it is a special occasion after all Could Dim sum be turned into a 21st Birthday Party? Chris. --- Gynaecological Research Laboratories, UCL EGA Institute for Women's Health, University College London, Paul O'Gorman Building, 72 Huntley Street, London WC1E 6DD United Kingdom Telephone; 020 3108 2007 Fax; 020 3108 2010
Re: Perl Christmas Quiz
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 15:01, Andy Wardley wrote: > David Cantrell wrote: >> >> See also http://search.cpan.org/~domizio > > Which sends you here: > > http://perl.4pro.net/perlish_coding_style.html > > My poor eyes. Make it stop. Burn it with fire. I can kind of understand semicolon-first... if it's a statement separator. But before a sub declaration? Or after a closing brace in general? What statements is it separating there? (Blocks aren't statements - are they?) Weirdness. Cheers, -- Philip Newton
Re: Perl Christmas Quiz
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 02:47, Torsten Knorr wrote: > Who is Haiku? Not who; what. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku Cheers, -- Philip Newton
Re: Perl Christmas Quiz
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, at 11:03:25, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote: >On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:28:05 UT >"Torsten Knorr" wrote: > > Let them use other languages. > We can improving it with Perl. > In addition we are more flexible. > >Soo close to Haiku: > > Let them use others > We can improve it with Perl > We're more flexible > >-- >Paul "LeoNerd" Evans > Funny Who is Haiku? Torsten
Re: Perl Christmas Quiz
David Cantrell wrote: See also http://search.cpan.org/~domizio Which sends you here: http://perl.4pro.net/perlish_coding_style.html My poor eyes. Make it stop. Burn it with fire. A
Re: Perl Christmas Quiz
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:33 PM, David Cantrell wrote: > See also http://search.cpan.org/~domizio > > I hate it, because ; was what you used to start a comment in an > assembler I used many years ago. > > -- > David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic > > Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla. > It's the comment character for lots of languages, particularly lispy ones. As an aside, the commas at the beginning of the line don't work too awfully in SQL because you aren't allowed to add a trailing comma (which is extremely annoying since it's an automatic habit for me when writing code in most languages). --James
Re: Perl Christmas Quiz
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 02:08:57PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 13:43, Abigail wrote: > > The professor [1] who taught us Pascal in university treated ';'s to > > *start* statements with: > >BEGIN do_this > >; do_that > >; more_things > >; yada_yada_yada > >END > Ah, yes - I've seen that style before, too, though seldomly. > And, recently, a similar thing in SQL: > > SELECT > this > , that > , theother > FROM > tablename > , othertable > ... See also http://search.cpan.org/~domizio I hate it, because ; was what you used to start a comment in an assembler I used many years ago. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla.
Re: Perl Christmas Quiz
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 13:43, Abigail wrote: > The professor [1] who taught us Pascal in university treated ';'s to > *start* statements with: > > >BEGIN do_this >; do_that >; more_things >; yada_yada_yada >END Ah, yes - I've seen that style before, too, though seldomly. And, recently, a similar thing in SQL: SELECT this , that , theother FROM tablename , othertable WHERE foo = bar OR hello = world ; Cheers, -- Philip Newton
Re: Perl Christmas Quiz
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:03:06PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 23:04, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > ; is a statement terminator, not a separator. Java inherits from C, not > > DWIM :-) > > I always thought Perl inherited the "statement separator, not > terminator" behaviour from Pascal. The professor [1] who taught us Pascal in university treated ';'s to *start* statements with: BEGIN do_this ; do_that ; more_things ; yada_yada_yada END [1] He's still there: http://www.cs.uu.nl/staff/doaitse.html Abigail
Re: Perl Christmas Quiz
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 23:04, Paul Makepeace wrote: > ; is a statement terminator, not a separator. Java inherits from C, not DWIM > :-) I always thought Perl inherited the "statement separator, not terminator" behaviour from Pascal. Cheers, -- Philip Newton
