Re: C Arrays [ot] Re: [Boston.pm] Another non-perl html question =)

> I know about the array-of-arrays factor all too well. (I tend to use the > [x,x] notation when not paying attention). But as a declaration has to > specify how many levels of indirection > (pointer-to-pointer-to-pointer-to.) we are dealing with, a limit seemed > possible nonetheless. It's

Re: [Boston.pm] lethal autovivify

> gl> exists($userlist->{PaulSmith}->{Age}) So is the safe form exists $userlist->{my $key='PaulSmith'} && ref $userlist->{$key} && exists($userlist->{$key}->{Age}} give or take the final -> which is iirc elidable? I will agree with Greg that in a DWIMERY

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

> really, any perl programmer worth hiring should be able to do this while > sleeping. Really? Postal de-duping may be harder than you think. What's the Reg-exp to convert or match FIELDS CORNER, BOSTON to DORCHESTER It's Not just canonicalization of abbreviations and moving

MKS v Cygwin, editors Re: [Boston.pm] Komodo vs. emacs

The major advantage of MKS toolkit over Cygwin is that is uses the native Windows %ENVIRNONMENT% storage for Unix PATH and $ENV{Vars} so that you can launch native windows programs as well as shell scripts from the shell. The disadvantage of course is that it's not free in either sense. Which

Re: Other geek events this weekend Re: [Boston.pm] pm party thissaturday, 3pm

isters and a new brother. Enjoy! (There will be multiple FD sites in NH too of course, since it's nation-wide with world-wide participation invited; www.n1fd.org is the only one I *know* of in NH, but there will be more.) Enjoy your visit, sorry I'll miss you due to my prior engagement.

Other geek events this weekend Re: [Boston.pm] pm party this saturday, 3pm

converted from Perl and tagged data files to MySQL and PHP, I feel unclean ;-) Bill n1vux ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] generic file system?

"Andrew M. Langmead" wrote: > That isn't part of Activestate Perl, but rather part of Microsoft's > file system API itself. It has always (as far back as MS-DOS 2.0) > allowed either forward or backslashes as path separators. It is only > tools that use those OS calls (like COMMAND.COM) that

Re: [Boston.pm] Re: OT: Linux experiment

> Basically, anything that shorts the 5 volt > supply to ground will stop the processor from doing anything. And will cause the Power Supply to _act_ like _it_ is hosed, when it's actually doing the right thing and shutting down to avoid fire. -- bill

bbw Re: [Boston.pm] in boston

lace. To answer Ron, a walk-from-Greenline isn't as convenient for me as walk-from-Redline (e.g. Cambridge Brew @ OKC or anything @ H[]), but it's worth the walk. If the cartesian divers aren't in season, their winter or spring seasonals should be wortth the trip. Bill N1VUX ___

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl v. Java...

There's a long debate on the authenticity of that item and InternalMemos in general on SlashDot.com . And the criticisms of Java aren't really that vicious if you read it closely. -- bill Wizard wrote: > > This is an argument I've been having for years with the 'Powers That Be'. I > finally

Re: [Boston.pm] Damian's Natural Language Parsing Meeting

> >Is this informatioon avaialble online, > >e.g. in a Perl module, or an exegesis, etc.? > Not as far as I know Lingua::EN::Inflect would be a good start for reading ahead. http://www.perldoc.com/cpan/Lingua/EN/Inflect.html http://search.cpan.org/author/DCONWAY/Lingua-EN-Inflect-1.88/

[Boston.pm] Re: Boston First Night Schedule - By Time of Day

Ron Newman wrote in ne.general.selected ... > For reasons unknown to me, Because "designers" despise data and data-junkies too, I presume ... > this year's First Night program booklet > doesn't include the usual table listing each event by time of day. I've > always found this table

[Boston.pm] ActiveState 5.8 Beta 1

For those not enamoured of large C builds or taking just anyone's prebuilt binaries ... ActiveState has posted ActivePerl 5.8.0 Beta 1 , not sure how long it's been there. -- bill n1vux ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org

[Boston.pm] FWD - Perl Advent Calendar 2002

Amplifying on Use.Perl.Org http://use.perl.org/ Announcement ... The 2002 Perl Advent Calendar Module News 2shortplanks writes "Doesn't December come round quickly? Announcing the third Perl Advent Calendar , the Advent calendar that features a

Stem Re: [Boston.pm] Fork SQL selects and inserts

> I remember talking to Uri about Stem. Looks like a nice application of > Stem. Delegate the work to 3 different stem cells and posts the results > to another stem to sync the results. I believe Stem works very well with > DBI interface. Indeed, URI mentioned doing that with 4 or 50 instances at

Re: [Boston.pm] Listing ourselves at bugc.org and BostonUserGroups.com

I shock myself by agreeing with Ron. Not all Perl users who need to find Boston.pm are initially use.perl.org or perl.com readers, some may be seeking Perl through "normal" paths. > I think we should add ourselves to these pages, > so that Perl users can find us too. -- bill