Re: The answer to the map and disc problem

On Tuesday, May 27, 2003 10:47 +0100 Paul Makepeace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm an advocate, despite being English & holding a British passport, of the old style spelling (i.e. the one used in the US). -ise is a minority case used by a small island of far fewer than a certain large continent.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Tim O'Reilly in London

On Tue, 27 May 2003, Dave Cross wrote: > > Tim O'Reilly will be speaking at The City University, London > on June 23rd. The title of the talk is "The Open Source Paradigm > Shift: LAMP as the 'Intel inside' of the next generation of computer > applications". > Er, isn't the 'M' in there something

Re: The answer to the map and disc problem

On Tue, 27 May 2003, Dave Cross wrote: > > Or would you prefer that we all used the language of the Canterbury > Tales? Or Piers Plowman? Or Beowulf? > Well it's funny you might say that /J\

Palm development

So, what is the Palm development tool of choice these days? I don't really want to use C or Java, but might be persuaded to use Java if I absolutely have to. The application I have in mind only needs to do simple queries against a horking big database (a munged version of the specified numberi

Re: The answer to the map and disc problem

On Tuesday, May 27, 2003 11:43 +0100 Steve Keay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 11:27:52AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > The yanks will have to adopt metric one of these days. MUHAHA I'd settle for them having the right Imperial units to start with. ...and ISO paper sizes. An

Re: The answer to the map and disc problem

On Tuesday, May 27, 2003 11:02 +0100 Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul Makepeace wrote: Oh, and isn't it about time the Euro was adopted in the UK? I mean COME ON. We can't possibly adopt the Euro in the UK until my vt220 displays it correctly! -Dom (a paid up member of the unicode-

Re: [OT] map weirdness

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 03:54:40PM -0300, Luis Campos de Carvalho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hy list =-] > > Straight to the point: > > I have a map like this: [snip] > I need to know how I should return values from a map block at a given > point. Obvious, perl prevents me from

[OT] map weirdness

Hy list =-] Straight to the point: I have a map like this: @array = map { if( $something ){ # stop, return a scalar from this block. } if( $other_thing ){ # stop, return an array if we reach this point. } # return an scalar from here. } @process

Re: The answer to the map and disc problem

> It's true that the z->s tranformation is recent and that the > 'z' spellings were in use here when the pilgrims left, but I'm > not sure that fact makes them any more correct than the generally > accepted 's' spellings. Since when waa antiquity a measure of > correctness in spelling or grammer?

[ANNOUNCE] Tim O'Reilly in London

Tim O'Reilly will be speaking at The City University, London on June 23rd. The title of the talk is "The Open Source Paradigm Shift: LAMP as the 'Intel inside' of the next generation of computer applications". More details (and a preregistration form that you'll need to fill in) are at

Re: [OT] Riverworld

From: Jasper McCrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 5/27/03 10:01:55 AM Dave Cross wrote: >> >> I've just noticed that the Sci-Fi channel are showing a >> film called Riverworld at 10pm this evening. This is >> based on the first two novels[1] in Philip Jose Farmer's >> Riverworld series and it may

Re: The answer to the map and disc problem

From: Peter Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 5/27/03 10:02:36 AM > Standardize, serialize -- the Americans have it right in > this case. The s/ize/ise/ is a fairly recent anglicism - > as recent as 50 years ago in fact. For some further > information on this, check out your friendly neighbou