Re: [Boston.pm] Dan and the Pie

2004-08-02 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:08:49AM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: and you should have closed your eyes, dummy! :) Maybe Dan should give a talk about taking a pie in the face, so these mistakes aren't repeated. Andrew ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Boston.pm] damian chauffeur?

2004-07-10 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 12:39:46AM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: damian and i will probably get to the meeting via the green line (from the red line). he is staying at a hotel downtown and i (and damian) would appreciate a ride back there after the talk. if a ride to the talk is available that

Re: [Boston.pm] where's the module

2004-04-28 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 03:04:07PM -0700, Stefan Dragnev wrote: Module::Info seems to do what you need. Sadly, it seems that Tom Christiansen's pmtools never caught on and has fallen off the net (rather like Tom himself). From the README: This is pmtools -- a suite of small programs to

Re: [Boston.pm] History of Perl

2004-01-20 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 05:37:05PM -0500, Mike T. Machenry wrote: I am research the history of the Perl programming language for a class. I found history.perl.org which is a nice start but I am looking for a more detailed history that focuses on just the language features. I am primarily

Re: [Boston.pm] Postal address De-duping

2003-08-09 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:21:25AM -0400, Tolkin, Steve wrote: Unfortunately I think that the USPS site http://www.usps.com/cgi-bin/zip4/zip4inq needed to run this script is no more. A search there for zip4inq produced nothing. Does anyone know of a similar page, wither by the USPS or

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl 6 has become too complex

2003-03-15 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:59:42PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: well, this is what will be supported which is named nested subs. it looks to be compiled but callable only from within the outer sub and it has access to the outer subs vars. my $c; sub foo() { my $a; my

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl 6 has become too complex

2003-03-15 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:19:18PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: AP == Andrew Pimlott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AP On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:59:42PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: my $c; sub foo() { my $a; my $b; my sub bar() { $b = $a + $c; } bar

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl 6 has become too complex

2003-03-14 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 03:49:21PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 10:14 AM -0500 3/14/03, Andrew Pimlott wrote: A6 says that, as in Perl 5, only anonymous subs are closures. I've always thought of the fact that Perl 5 named subs are not closures as a bug kept for compatibility. Well

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl 6 has become too complex

2003-03-14 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 04:32:17PM -0500, John Tobey wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 03:49:21PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 10:14 AM -0500 3/14/03, Andrew Pimlott wrote: A6 says that, as in Perl 5, only anonymous subs are closures. I've always thought of the fact that Perl 5 named subs

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl 6 has become too complex

2003-03-14 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 04:17:08PM -0500, Andrew Pimlott wrote: bar() - undef foo(a) bar() - a foo(b) bar() - b Um, the last one is - a. Andrew ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL