stroke

2002-02-22 Thread Simon Wistow
Thoguht that'd get people interested :) Actually I'm talkin about this : http://www.etla.net/libstroke/ which seems interesting. Apparently FVWM uses it (the 2.3.x unstable tree) and some guy popped up on the Enlightenment dev list talking about it. Apparently it's inspired by CAD packages.

RE: Supermarkets [Was: Tea]

2002-02-22 Thread Ivor Williams
Kate L Pugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote I try to shop at local shops rather than supermarkets partly because I used to live somewhere where the local shops were pretty crap and I'm fairly sure that this was because there was a nearby out-of-town supermarket that all the people who could

Re: Swearing be warned ( was Re: Supermarkets [Was: Tea])

2002-02-22 Thread Newton, Philip
Jonathan Stowe wrote: if there's a fucking problem. You have a problem? It's probably time to read the appropriate manual then. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: Swearing be warned ( was Re: Supermarkets [Was: Tea])

2002-02-22 Thread Newton, Philip
Jonathan Stowe wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Kate L Pugh wrote: is it only fuck that I'd get told off for? Why the fuck would you fucking get fucked off for saying fuck on the list ? This reminds me of:

Re: Swearing be warned ( was Re: Supermarkets [Was: Tea])

2002-02-22 Thread Steve Keay
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 11:21:48AM +0100, Newton, Philip wrote: This reminds me of: Oh SHIT! I just stood in some doo-doo!

Next social and tube strikes

2002-02-22 Thread Struan Donald
It's been noticed that the next social (on the 7th of March) and the first of the two proposed tube strikes overlap (in that it finishes at noon on the 7th). Do we think this is liable to be a problem? ISTR that last time this happened the social meeting was moved to the following Thursday.

Re: Next social and tube strikes

2002-02-22 Thread Paul Mison
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 10:56:54AM +, Struan Donald wrote: It's been noticed that the next social (on the 7th of March) and the first of the two proposed tube strikes overlap (in that it finishes at noon on the 7th). Do we think this is liable to be a problem? Even though tube

Calling conventions, sub procedures, etc.

2002-02-22 Thread Mark Fowler
Right. You may or may not know that I'm working on a testing module for GD (depending if you read my journal[1] or not) Last week I hit a wall in terms of my interface design. Consider is: is isnt Checks the colour of the pixel. This can either be compared to a colour index or a

Re: Calling conventions, sub procedures, etc.

2002-02-22 Thread Roger Burton West
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:50:39PM +, Mark Fowler wrote: - Optionally use name value pair. This is very very messy but might be my best option. Look out though, has can take 5,6,7 or 8 arguments depending if you've got a comment and colour indexes or not. Yes. That's what I'd

Re: Calling conventions, sub procedures, etc.

2002-02-22 Thread Mark Fowler
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Roger Burton West wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:50:39PM +, Mark Fowler wrote: - Optionally use name value pair. This is very very messy but might be my best option. Look out though, has can take 5,6,7 or 8 arguments depending if you've got a

Re: How to optimise slow perl scripts?

2002-02-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:20:56PM +, Chris Benson wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:31:17PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote: How many people use {} in real regexps? phone numbers, CC numbers, ... all the time :-( Ahh, so *you're* the one who

Re: How to optimise slow perl scripts?

2002-02-22 Thread Chris Benson
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:42:53PM +, David Cantrell wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:20:56PM +, Chris Benson wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:31:17PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote: How many people use {} in real regexps? phone

Re: How to optimise slow perl scripts?

2002-02-22 Thread Mike Jarvis
On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 16:42, David Cantrell wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:20:56PM +, Chris Benson wrote: phone numbers, CC numbers, ... all the time :-( Ahh, so *you're* the one who rejects one of my credit cards* cos it has the wrong number of digits :-) In the US you can never