Party trick

2001-11-27 Thread Greg McCarroll
As penance I thought I'd give you all a bit of a puzzler. Here is the problem You have a cork thats been pushed into a wine bottle and there is no wine left in the bottle. How do you get the cork out using items you would normally carry on your person without

Re: Small world [was] Re: London, Tube, Perl, and maths. (fwd)

2001-11-27 Thread Dave Thorn
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 10:50:37PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: * anathema ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Sluts. Are they being sluts in between being cider drinking manic depressants with a bad taste in music and a fashion sense that only makes particularly commercially aware oxfam shop

Re: Small world [was] Re: London, Tube, Perl, and maths. (fwd)

2001-11-27 Thread the hatter
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, anathema wrote: Do we need to go on? I'm tired and dirty. Tired and dirty ? Sounds like you'd be welcomed back into the fold. the hatter

Re: Party trick

2001-11-27 Thread the hatter
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: You have a cork thats been pushed into a wine bottle and there is no wine left in the bottle. How do you get the cork out using items you would normally carry on your person without breaking the cork or the bottle.

Re: Small world [was] Re: London, Tube, Perl, and maths. (fwd)

2001-11-27 Thread the hatter
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Dave Thorn wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 10:50:37PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: * anathema ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Sluts. Are they being sluts in between being cider drinking manic depressants with a bad taste in music and a fashion sense that only makes

Re: Small world [was] Re: London, Tube, Perl, and maths. (fwd)

2001-11-27 Thread Sue Spence
the hatter wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, anathema wrote: Do we need to go on? I'm tired and dirty. Tired and dirty ? Sounds like you'd be welcomed back into the fold. Who are you, the goth jesus? ;)

a few words in favour of pmison

2001-11-27 Thread jo walsh
in light of the camel-boosting on this list of late, my heart impels me to offer a few words in favour of our fine prospective candidate for leadership, paul mison. a man too modest yet to boost himself[0], he seeks not to elevate his own position but to advance the mutual welfare of our group

Re: [OT] Willow /. poll

2001-11-27 Thread Newton, Philip
Steve Mynott wrote: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I won't be talking much on the list for the next few days ... I'll be off hacking my MTA to delete all mail I try and send after pub closing time. ;-) Write a perl script which echoes random text which you have to reply to

Re: Small world [was] Re: London, Tube, Perl, and maths. (fwd)

2001-11-27 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Dave Thorn wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 10:50:37PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: # Where is DTG when you want him ;-) 'ello darling How're YOU doin'? /joey So to make this a non-one-liner, are we doing aything special for the December meet? L. The wonderful mating

Re: a few words in favour of pmison

2001-11-27 Thread Leon Brocard
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 15:22, Sue Spence wrote: This was a wonderful campaign speech; Of course, I have no problem with people other than the candidate proposing themselves, but if the other candidate were to find An Internet and post his manifesto then I might get around to making my mind up

Warnings, uninitialized value...

2001-11-27 Thread Redvers Davies
Greetings, I'm sure i'm being dense here but I found something which didn't feel right to me. If someone can show me the way I would appreciate it :-) Code1: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $x; print($x); When executed produces: Use of uninitialized value at ./x line 6. Which

Re: Warnings, uninitialized value...

2001-11-27 Thread Newton, Philip
Redvers Davies wrote: Which isn't really true. It's undefined sure, but not uninitialized. Comments? Take it up with perl5-porters, I'd say. They'll probably claim it's a feature. You could try patching the wording so that it says undefined rather than unitialised if you prefer. (And I'm

Re: Warnings, uninitialized value...

2001-11-27 Thread Chris Devers
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Newton, Philip wrote: Redvers Davies wrote: Which isn't really true. It's undefined sure, but not uninitialized. Comments? Take it up with perl5-porters, I'd say. They'll probably claim it's a feature. You could try patching the wording so that it says undefined

Re: Warnings, uninitialized value...

2001-11-27 Thread Robin Houston
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 07:02:50PM +0100, Newton, Philip wrote: (And I'm not sure whether $x is distinguishable from ($x = undef). Hm... They don't seem to be currently distinguishable AFAICT. [robin@penderel robin]$ perl -MDevel::Peek -e 'Dump $x; $y = undef; Dump $y;' SV = NULL(0x0) at

Re: [ANNOUNCE]Voting

2001-11-27 Thread Dave Cross
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 03:50:06PM +, Peter Haworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 17:33:07 +, Dave Cross wrote: Here's the voting form: Form Starts Amelia C. Bactrianus [ ] Paul Mison[ ] Re-Open Nominations [ ]

Re: Small world [was] Re: London, Tube, Perl, and maths. (fwd)

2001-11-27 Thread Dave Cross
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:58:59PM +, Lucy McWilliam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: So to make this a non-one-liner, are we doing aything special for the December meet? What? More special than announcing the new leader? I don't see how we can :) -- Don't you boys know any _nice_ songs?

Re: [ANNOUNCE]Voting

2001-11-27 Thread Dave Cross
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:18:59PM +, Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 03:50:06PM +, Peter Haworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 17:33:07 +, Dave Cross wrote: Here's the voting form: Form Starts Amelia C.

[ANNOUNCE] Manifesto: Paul

2001-11-27 Thread Paul Mison
Um, hello there. I'm Paul, and I write perl (sometimes). It seemed like a good idea to say Yes to Dave Cross on Thursday when he asked if I wanted to accept the nomination. London.pm is mature now; our outgoing leader's set in place a series of conventions (the nature of the mailing list,

Re: Small world [was] Re: London, Tube, Perl, and maths. (fwd)

2001-11-27 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:20:26PM +, Dave Cross wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:58:59PM +, Lucy McWilliam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: So to make this a non-one-liner, are we doing aything special for the December meet? What? More special than announcing the new leader? I don't

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Manifesto: Paul

2001-11-27 Thread David H. Adler
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 07:03:51PM +, Paul Mison wrote: The one thing I will change is that I'm going to make it clear that if I am elected leader, it will be for a year only. It seems to me a clear consequence of elections is that they should be for a fixed term, and 12 months is a

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Nominations

2001-11-27 Thread Dave Cross
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 07:14:02PM +, Paul Mison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 24/11/2001 at 01:31 +, Greg McCarroll wrote: Do you think we should even bother trying to organise projects like NMS, or should we just accept it will fail? [snip paul's actual answer] It's too

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Manifesto: Paul

2001-11-27 Thread Jon Nangle
Paul == Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul -- :: paul :: like your manifesto, put it to the test-o Sultans of Ping quotes are definite vote winners in my book :) Jon

Re: a few words in favour of pmison

2001-11-27 Thread Dean S Wilson
- Original Message - From: alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 27 Nov 2001, Leon Brocard wrote: ps no, a vote for Amelia isn't a vote for me. Rather it's a vote for decentralisation and delegation Who's going to be doing the delegation or is it going to be a volenteer effort? so you don't

Re: a few words in favour of pmison

2001-11-27 Thread Dean S Wilson
- Original Message - From: alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 27 Nov 2001, Leon Brocard wrote: ps no, a vote for Amelia isn't a vote for me. Rather it's a vote for decentralisation and delegation Who's going to be doing the delegation or is it going to be a volunteer effort? so you don't