Apologies..
Did not mean to reply to the list.
R.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Hodgkinson
Sent: 31 August 2008 18:47
To: London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers
Subject: spare memory
I just upgraded my macbook to 4G and thus have two
Hi Dave,
If you've still got these, I would probably be interested.
Cheers,
Rafiq Gemmail
Morgan Stanley | Technology
25 Cabot Square | Canary Wharf | Floor 03
London, E14 4QA
Phone: +44 20 7677-2923
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Someone got first dibs
On 2 Sep 2008, at 11:40, Gemmail, Rafiq (IT) wrote:
Hi Dave,
If you've still got these, I would probably be interested.
Cheers,
Rafiq Gemmail
Morgan Stanley | Technology
25 Cabot Square | Canary Wharf | Floor 03
London, E14 4QA
Phone: +44 20 7677-2923
[EMAIL
On 2 Sep 2008, at 12:26, Denny wrote:
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 12:16 +0100, Nic Gibson wrote:
I'm about to upgrade a macbook pro to 4gig and a macbook to 2g so
I'll
have some RAM spare in a day or two if anyone wants (I can drop it
in
the post or, if you're near ShellMex House, 80 Strand, I
Hi there,
Sorry to use the list for this, I thought someone without a job (or bored to
death) could be interested...
Exponential-e (see http://www.exponential-e.com) needs a developer with the
following skills:
*MUST*
Perl (goes without saying...)
DBIx::Class
Catalyst MVC
*PREFERED*
MySQL
Linux
Hey, at least it's not a job advert.
A friend of mine in Boston sent me this today. His company wants a
colo rack cleared at no expense to itself. If you're interested, ping
me and I'll put you in touch.
-tara
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On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 13:34 +0100, Livio Ravetto wrote:
Hi there,
Sorry to use the list for this,
For future reference http://london.pm.org/about/faq.html#job
/J\
Just a reminder, this is tomorrow ...
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 04:27:29PM +0100, Kake L Pugh wrote:
Hello! For the September social, we're going somewhere we've not been
before - the Crown on Clerkenwell Green. We have the upstairs function
room booked from 6:30pm. There's no bar up there,
s/tomorrow/thursday/
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 02:42:37PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote
Just a reminder, this is tomorrow ...
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 04:27:29PM +0100, Kake L Pugh wrote:
Hello! For the September social, we're going somewhere we've not been
before - the Crown on
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Tara Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey, at least it's not a job advert.
A friend of mine in Boston sent me this today. His company wants a
colo rack cleared at no expense to itself. If you're interested, ping
me and I'll put you in touch.
...and I've now
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 02:42:37PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
Just a reminder, this is tomorrow ...
please ignore this message for the next 12 hours?
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:01:02PM +0100, James Laver wrote:
On 2008-08-28 11:54, Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
PS I'll stick
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 14:42 +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
Just a reminder, this is tomorrow ...
You appear to have sent this a day early :-)
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 09:39:51PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
And, in no way related to Martin, but related to software value,
http://notalwaysright.com/thickheaded-as-thieves/739
We'd be delighted to send you a new registration code. For security
reasons we need to post it. What's
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 20:18, Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What other subtleties am I missing? What are the pros and cons from a
language and culture perspective? From an underlying implementation and
internals perspective?
From a culture perspective, it also depends on which classes
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 19:18:38 +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
A thought - what would the advantages and disadvantages of having only
references in a language.
I'm going to assume you mean low level referencing semantics (value
aliasing)
The downside is that, of course, you can spooky actions
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 20:29:31 +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
For example, in certain languages, strings and primitive-wrapper
objects are immutable, so if you pass them to someone else, they can't
muck around with them.
In perl they are too, a scalar is a container not a value.
$x++ creates
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 09:43:32PM +0300, Yuval Kogman said:
but conversly you have:
my $x = 3;
my $y = $x;
$x++;
$y; # 4
IIRC python works like that.
There was an interesting paper a while back [goes off to find it ...
AHAH]
a=10
b=4
c=a+b
a=20
Now what is the value of c?
For the first example, the answer is pretty clearly 14 but for the
second the answer could arguably be either 14 *or* 24.
I think most programmers are going to go with 14 but I wonder if a
totally pass by reference language
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 20:13 +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 09:43:32PM +0300, Yuval Kogman said:
but conversly you have:
my $x = 3;
my $y = $x;
$x++;
$y; # 4
IIRC python works like that.
There was an interesting paper a while back [goes off
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 09:07:18PM +0100, Raphael Mankin said:
I think that you are confusing call by reference with call by name. With
call by name every parameter is actually a subroutine that evaluates the
parameter when you use it, as in Algol 60 of blessed memory.
Sorry, I was being a
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 20:13:12 +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
For the first example, the answer is pretty clearly 14 but for the
second the answer could arguably be either 14 *or* 24.
...
More importantly - if that happened would it even matter? Would old
programmers have a problem with it
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 00:35:01 +0300, Yuval Kogman wrote:
Every value is conceptually an infinite stream of values, so e.g.
writing a clock widget amounts to assigning the output of some
formatting function applied to $time, into a GUI widget. The system
will reevaluate on any change.
I
Hey. Mark Keating, the Shadowcat MD and volunteer for London Perl Workshop
organising this year, is going to be down in London tomorrow evening and
it seems the friend he was going to meet won't be around so he'll be stuck
for something to do.
So, any of you who want to bend his ear over LPW, I
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 12:37:22AM +0100, Matt S Trout wrote:
Hey. Mark Keating, the Shadowcat MD and volunteer for London Perl Workshop
organising this year, is going to be down in London tomorrow evening and
it seems the friend he was going to meet won't be around so he'll be stuck
for
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