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

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

[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: 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?

[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: [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

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: 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

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 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\

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 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.