Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-24 Thread Newton, Philip
Paul Johnson wrote: > I have occassionally used ?: as an lvalue. > > Perlop used to say "This is not necessarily guaranteed to > contribute to the readability of your program", but that > seems to have gone from recent versions. Anyone know why? My guess would be that someone (with a reduced s

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-22 Thread Nick Cleaton
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 06:13:38PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: [MY RANT] > > Guilty as charged, although I'm sure it was unintentional -- a product > of banging out the original script in about five minutes... > Ah, you work for an ISP :) > > How about: > > > > next unless > > /^[^#]* >

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-21 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 12:47:16AM +, Nick Cleaton wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 12:45:16PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > Then you won't like, > > No, not a lot :) > > > #!/usr/bin/perl -wln > > > > next unless /^[^#]* > That doesn't need to be as obfuscated as that, you've placed th

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-21 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 12:45:16PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: > #!/usr/bin/perl -wln > > next unless /^[^#]* [snip main loop] > > sub run_analog { > # stuff > > $server_name = $doc_root = $log = ''; > } Hmm, I've just noticed a bug. The return value from run_analog is always false

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-21 Thread Nick Cleaton
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 12:45:16PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > > > Until the day that $cond1 is true and action1() returns '0', > > when it breaks mysteriously. > > Then you won't like, No, not a lot :) > #!/usr/bin/perl -wln > > next unless /^[^#]*

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-21 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:23:44AM +, Nick Cleaton wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:00:56AM +, Piers Cawley wrote: > > and I'm still not sure whether I utterly hate it or not... > > > >$cond1 && action1() || > >$cond2 && action2() || > >... > > > > works just as 'well'...

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-21 Thread Chris Devers
On 21 Jan 2002, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > "Piers" == Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Piers> But, but, that should be > > Piers> $foo && do_foo_stuff() || do_other_stuff(); > > And just to make sure my objections are noted in every thread > you say this: > > D

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-21 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Piers" == Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Piers> But, but, that should be Piers> $foo && do_foo_stuff() || do_other_stuff(); And just to make sure my objections are noted in every thread you say this: DON'T DO THAT. Any more than you'd use JAPH or Golf code in pro

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-21 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Nick" == Nick Cleaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nick> On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:00:56AM +, Piers Cawley wrote: >> $cond1 && action1() || >> $cond2 && action2() || >> ... >> >> works just as 'well'... Nick> Until the day that $cond1 is true and action1() returns '0', Nick> when it

RE: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-21 Thread Richard Clyne
> Sent: 21 January 2002 09:01 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Erm, Hello? > > David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've seen it used as a 'switch' type operator: > >$cond1 ? action1() : >$cond2 ? action2() : >$c

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-21 Thread Piers Cawley
Ivor Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jonathan Peterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote > > >> > what? .. with *4* spaces ?? come come mr McCarroll, we all know it is 2 >> > spaces ... :) > >> Spaces? SPACES?!!! It's called a tab, Tee Ay Bee. Code is indented with >> TABs, not spaces. O

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-21 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Jonathan Stowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have this problem with Term::Cap that the diffs always report stuff > being different between my (i.e. the CPAN version ) and the core version - > this is always todo with weird white space handling :( I always use diff -b to ignore such things as me

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-21 Thread Tony Kennick
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 16:41:10 + David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 04:23:46PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > * Dominic Mitchell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > $foo ? do_foo_stuff() : do_other_stuff(); > > > > > > > Ok, this started off as a bi

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-21 Thread Tony Kennick
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 16:41:10 + David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 04:23:46PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > * Dominic Mitchell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > $foo ? do_foo_stuff() : do_other_stuff(); > > > > > > > Ok, this started off as a bi

RE: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-21 Thread Ivor Williams
Jonathan Peterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote > > what? .. with *4* spaces ?? come come mr McCarroll, we all know it is 2 > > spaces ... :) > Spaces? SPACES?!!! It's called a tab, Tee Ay Bee. Code is indented with > TABs, not spaces. Only bad bad people use spaces to indent. ... or bad

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-21 Thread Jonathan Peterson
> what? .. with *4* spaces ?? come come mr McCarroll, we all know it is 2 > spaces ... :) Spaces? SPACES?!!! It's called a tab, Tee Ay Bee. Code is indented with TABs, not spaces. Only bad bad people use spaces to indent. -- Jonathan Peterson Technical Manager, Unified Ltd, +44 (0)20 7383 60

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-21 Thread Nick Cleaton
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:00:56AM +, Piers Cawley wrote: > > I've seen it used as a 'switch' type operator: > >$cond1 ? action1() : >$cond2 ? action2() : >$cond3 ? action3() : >... >$condN ? actionN(); > > and I'm still not sure whether I utterly hate it or not... > >

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-21 Thread Piers Cawley
David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 04:23:46PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: >> * Dominic Mitchell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> > >> > $foo ? do_foo_stuff() : do_other_stuff(); >> > >> >> Ok, this started off as a bit of a joke/troll, however i'm about to >

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-21 Thread Piers Cawley
Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> You're still wrong in the oneline case: >> >> if ($foo) { do_foo_stuff() } >> else { do_other_stuff() } > > Are you sure it isn't: > > $foo ? do_foo_stuff() : do_other_stuff(); What? The ternar

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-20 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 11:35:21PM +0100, Paul Johnson wrote: > able to determine this". It is not trivial to formally prove that the > && and || stuff actually does mimic the if statement. Presumably it's made harder by the fact they don't... P -- Paul Makepeace .

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:06:55PM +, Tom Insam wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 06:37:03PM +0100, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 11:23:16AM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > > > > > $foo && do_foo_stuff(); > > > $foo || do_other_stuff(); > > > > As an example of ho

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-20 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > Besides, I think the preferred idiom for this kind of conditional should > be, > > s/(.*)\*(.*)/$1.($foo?"foo":"other").$2/ee for my $t="do_*_stuff" > * Smack /J\

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-20 Thread Tom Insam
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 06:37:03PM +0100, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 11:23:16AM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > > > $foo && do_foo_stuff(); > > $foo || do_other_stuff(); > > As an example of how not to code I hope. Apart from anything else (of > which there is plen

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-20 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 06:37:03PM +0100, Paul Johnson wrote: > > $foo && do_foo_stuff(); > > $foo || do_other_stuff(); > > As an example of how not to code I hope. Apart from anything else (of > which there is plenty) that's going to give your code coverage fits. > Your path coverage wi

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-20 Thread Nick Cleaton
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 07:28:22PM +, Mark Fowler wrote: > > I looked at the code and couldn't tell what it was doing. This isn't to > say I couldn't work out what it's doing, but I don't want to have to have > to work out what it's doing - I just want to read and instantly > understand. [S

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-20 Thread anathema
David H. Adler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >Does this make me "Good Dave"? :-) >> No chance. >"OK Dave"? l33t dave. -- http://www.the-anathema.org "In addition to requiring a larger percentage than a majority (51% being a majority), a supermajority can also shoot lasers out of its eyes." - Mc

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-20 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Dave Cross wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 02:19:43PM -0500, David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 06:52:54PM +, Sue Spence wrote: > > > Har har har. The Dave being addressed in the first note is commonly > > > known as "Evil Dave" > > > >

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-20 Thread David H. Adler
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 02:26:41PM -0500, anathema wrote: > David H. Adler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Does this make me "Good Dave"? :-) > > No chance. "OK Dave"? -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ There's more than one way to skin a cat, and I happen to k

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-20 Thread Dave Cross
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 02:19:43PM -0500, David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 06:52:54PM +, Sue Spence wrote: > > Har har har. The Dave being addressed in the first note is commonly > > known as "Evil Dave" > > Oh, I'm very well aware of that... > > Does this

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-20 Thread anathema
David H. Adler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Does this make me "Good Dave"? :-) No chance. -- http://www.the-anathema.org "These young writers... are worth watching. Not reading; just watching." - Dorothy Parker

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-20 Thread Mark Fowler
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Nick Cleaton wrote: > How do we feel about the use of ?: in this code ? I looked at the code and couldn't tell what it was doing. This isn't to say I couldn't work out what it's doing, but I don't want to have to have to work out what it's doing - I just want to read and i

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-20 Thread David H. Adler
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 06:52:54PM +, Sue Spence wrote: > Har har har. The Dave being addressed in the first note is commonly > known as "Evil Dave" Oh, I'm very well aware of that... Does this make me "Good Dave"? :-) dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dh

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-20 Thread Sue Spence
Har har har. The Dave being addressed in the first note is commonly known as "Evil Dave" "David H. Adler" wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 08:47:53AM +, Aaron Trevena wrote: > > > > Dave, being evil is no excuse for indenting like a moonshine crazed lemur! > > No, I imagine doing anything

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 05:39:16PM +, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > The conditional operator should never be used purely for its side effects > IMO - It should always been an assignment. I'd agree with that, though I have occassionally used ?: as an lvalue. Perlop used to say "This is not necessa

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-20 Thread Nick Cleaton
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 05:39:16PM +, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Greg McCarroll wrote: > [?: DEBATE] How do we feel about the use of ?: in this code ? Strictly speaking it's a triple nested ?: but I like the pattern it makes. s[ (?:

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-20 Thread Chris Devers
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Dominic Mitchell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > $foo ? do_foo_stuff() : do_other_stuff(); > > For what its worth, i think this syntax is one of the worst pieces > of syntax in Perl. If/else is a well recognised piece of syntax in > programmin

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-20 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Dominic Mitchell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > $foo ? do_foo_stuff() : do_other_stuff(); > > > > Ok, this started off as a bit of a joke/troll, however i'm about to > take my own bait > > For what its worth, i think this syntax is one o

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-20 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, David Cantrell wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 04:23:46PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > * Dominic Mitchell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > $foo ? do_foo_stuff() : do_other_stuff(); > > > > > > > Ok, this started off as a bit of a joke/troll, however i'm about t

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-20 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Chris Benson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 11:21:17AM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > > > if you want. Generally, all it asks is that you are consistent. Not > > an overly hard burden. You can even use tabs if you want, but again, > > you have to be consistent. > > *

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-20 Thread David H. Adler
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 04:41:10PM +, David Cantrell wrote: > > The really sick puppies (cough) are those who nest ?: inside each other. I've seen that. I've had to *work* with code like that... It's EEVIL... dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ "It

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 04:23:46PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Dominic Mitchell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > $foo ? do_foo_stuff() : do_other_stuff(); > > > > Ok, this started off as a bit of a joke/troll, however i'm about to > take my own bait > > For what its worth, i th

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 11:23:16AM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You're still wrong in the oneline case: > > > > if ($foo) { do_foo_stuff() } > > else { do_other_stuff() } > > Are you sure it isn't: > > $foo ? do_foo_stuff() : do_other

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-20 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dominic Mitchell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > $foo ? do_foo_stuff() : do_other_stuff(); > Ok, this started off as a bit of a joke/troll, however i'm about to take my own bait For what its worth, i think this syntax is one of the worst pieces of syntax in Perl. If/else is a well re

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-20 Thread Chris Benson
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 11:21:17AM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > if you want. Generally, all it asks is that you are consistent. Not > an overly hard burden. You can even use tabs if you want, but again, > you have to be consistent. *I'm* consistent: it's all the other buggers! And of

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-20 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You're still wrong in the oneline case: > > if ($foo) { do_foo_stuff() } > else { do_other_stuff() } Are you sure it isn't: $foo ? do_foo_stuff() : do_other_stuff(); Or perhaps (which I was shown in an interview once): $foo && do_foo_st

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-20 Thread Dominic Mitchell
David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > making me do: > > if($foo) >do_foo_stuff(); # note that that is a pointless number of ># spaces, not a tab > else # more arbitrary spacing >do_other_stuff(); > > instead of my preferred: > > if($foo) {

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-19 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:02:22AM +, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > #!/usr/bin/perl -P > > #define BEGIN { > #define END } > > if ($foo) > BEGIN >do_foo_stuff() > END > else > BEGIN >do_other_stuff() > END > > Yes I don't know anything about source filters and lord knows what happens >

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-19 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > if($foo) { do_foo_stuff(); } > > else { do_other_stuff(); } > > > > Now you are being silly, you know it should be ... > > if ($foo) { > do_foo_stuff(); > } else { > do_other_stuff(); > } >

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-19 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, David Cantrell wrote: > > I am the person best qualified to decide how my > code should be indented. Anyone else can use $pretty_printer_of_choice. > Go tell COBOL about it :) /J\

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-19 Thread David H. Adler
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 08:47:53AM +, Aaron Trevena wrote: > > Dave, being evil is no excuse for indenting like a moonshine crazed lemur! No, I imagine doing anything like a moonshine crazed lemur is probably its own reward. Yet Another Dave -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http:

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-19 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 12:25:58AM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 11:26:43PM +, David Cantrell wrote: > > if($foo) > >do_foo_stuff(); # note that that is a pointless number of > ># spaces, not a tab > > else # more arbitrary spacing > >

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-19 Thread Robin
Greg McCarroll wrote: > * David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > if($foo) { do_foo_stuff(); } > > else { do_other_stuff(); } > > > > Now you are being silly, you know it should be ... > > if ($foo) { > do_foo_stuff(); > } else { > do_other_stuff(); > } > > this is much much be

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-19 Thread Piers Cawley
Aaron Trevena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: F> On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Greg McCarroll wrote: > >> * David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> > >> > if($foo) { do_foo_stuff(); } >> > else { do_other_stuff(); } >> > >> >> Now you are being silly, you know it should be ... >> >> if ($foo) { >>

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-19 Thread Aaron Trevena
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > if($foo) { do_foo_stuff(); } > > else { do_other_stuff(); } > > > > Now you are being silly, you know it should be ... > > if ($foo) { > do_foo_stuff(); > } else { > do_other_stuff();

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-19 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 11:26:43PM +, David Cantrell wrote: > if($foo) >do_foo_stuff(); # note that that is a pointless number of ># spaces, not a tab > else # more arbitrary spacing >do_other_stuff(); do_stuff($foo); > instead of my preferred: > >

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-18 Thread Greg McCarroll
* David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > if($foo) { do_foo_stuff(); } > else { do_other_stuff(); } > Now you are being silly, you know it should be ... if ($foo) { do_foo_stuff(); } else { do_other_stuff(); } this is much much better. Greg -- Greg McCarroll

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-18 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 11:06:25AM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > Python also forces you to indent consistently, which some people seem > to think is a bug, not a feature. :-) > making me do: if($foo) do_foo_stuff(); # note that that is a pointless number of

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-18 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 11:34:58AM -0600, Chris Devers wrote: > Damn Thinkpad keyboard. Is there any way to map F1 to ESC for Vim? I'm > going to be hitting the wrong key *a lot*, I can feel it... :imap -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-18 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Chris Devers wrote: > On 18 Jan 2002, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > > Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > The O'Reilly book "Programming Python on win32" is pretty good at > > explaining how to get the most out of Python under win32. It goes > > through scriptin

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-18 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well in the case of the job I'm taking, it's being used as an alternative > to Java, not Perl, because it is similar to Java in ways that this group > cares about, but it's not restricted to the Java sandbox model. This > allows it to bind better to Micro

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-18 Thread Chris Devers
On 18 Jan 2002, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The O'Reilly book "Programming Python on win32" is pretty good at > explaining how to get the most out of Python under win32. It goes > through scripting Word/Excel and calling COM and so on in detail. I th

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-18 Thread David H. Adler
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 04:27:50PM +, robin szemeti wrote: > On Friday 18 January 2002 15:05, David H. Adler wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 11:06:25AM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > > > > > Python also forces you to indent consistently, which some people seem > > > to think is a bug,

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-18 Thread David H. Adler
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 11:06:25AM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > > Python also forces you to indent consistently, which some people seem > to think is a bug, not a feature. :-) > Wouldn't there have to be some vague basis for argument with those statements for it to be holy-war material?

RE: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-18 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Ivor Williams wrote: > Chris Devers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > > ...a job, actually. I just accepted a contract as a Python coder! :) > > Does Python have any advantages over Perl? Well in the case of the job I'm taking, it's being used as an alternative to Jav

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-18 Thread Leon Brocard
Rob Partington sent the following bits through the ether: > Or write a TT->Parrot compiler. :-) Yes, Parrot would make an interesting target for TT, 'cos of the optimisations it could make. I've been thinking about this somewhat, but real templates need plugins and objects and such, so we reall

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-18 Thread Rob Partington
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In particular, I'm waiting for the Template Toolkit to be ported to Ruby > and then I might use it more often. But I understand the author is a little > busy right now... I made a start on that. I ported the tokenizer an

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-18 Thread Andy Wardley
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 11:08:23AM +, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > I did just that, which means I don't know much about Python. But Ruby is > the only language other than Perl that makes me grin and say "Hey, > that's cool" on a regular basis*. And from what little I've seen Ruby is > more Perli

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-18 Thread anathema
robin szemeti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Who has keys to buildings and/or root or sysadmin passwords? >most of the skrip1 k1dd1es on the planet have r00t apparently :) Ah, but the double 0s mean it's 'special' root. -- http://www.the-anathema.org Your prize is the latest addition to our new ra

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-18 Thread Jonathan Peterson
Andy Wardley wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:14:41AM -, Ivor Williams wrote: > > I have noticed that although Python is more obscure, it seems to have more > > commercial take-up in certain places. My present client are using it for > > test scripts. > But if you're interested in alter

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-18 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Ivor Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Chris Devers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > > ...a job, actually. I just accepted a contract as a Python coder! :) > > Does Python have any advantages over Perl? There aren't too many basic differences, although the languages /look/ very diff

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-18 Thread Andy Wardley
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:14:41AM -, Ivor Williams wrote: > I have noticed that although Python is more obscure, it seems to have more > commercial take-up in certain places. My present client are using it for > test scripts. Python is a bit like Perl with all the sharp edges filed off. It'

RE: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-18 Thread Ivor Williams
Chris Devers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > ...a job, actually. I just accepted a contract as a Python coder! :) Does Python have any advantages over Perl? I have noticed that although Python is more obscure, it seems to have more commercial take-up in certain places. My present client a

RE: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-18 Thread Ivor Williams
Chris Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote > Been quiet all day tho' ... I was wondering if Penderel were poorly: > obviously not. As a matter of interest, whom do we tell if Penderel, hence london.pm.org does go off the air? Who has keys to buildings and/or root or sysadmin passwords? This

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-17 Thread Chris Benson
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:33:48PM -0600, Chris Devers wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Chris Benson wrote: > > > Gone out an got a life? :-) > > ...a job, actually. I just accepted a contract as a Python coder! :) Congratulations &/or commiserations! -- Chris Benson

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-17 Thread Chris Benson
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 09:30:13PM +, Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN) wrote: > > Nah, you sent that at 8:30pm, thus they were all probably oggling season 6 > Willow on skyOne. :-) Been quiet all day tho' ... I was wondering if Penderel were poorly: obviously not. -- Chris Benson

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-17 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 09:12:12PM +, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Chris Devers wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Chris Benson wrote: > > > > > Gone out an got a life? :-) > > > > ...a job, actually. I just accepted a contract as a Python coder! :) > > Oh I got plenty of Jo

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-17 Thread Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN)
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Chris Benson wrote: > Have you all gone skiing in Val Thorens? > Had your computers re-possessed? > Found some channel showing BtVS series 13? Nah, you sent that at 8:30pm, thus they were all probably oggling season 6 Willow on skyOne. fiq

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-17 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Chris Devers wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Chris Benson wrote: > > > Gone out an got a life? :-) > > ...a job, actually. I just accepted a contract as a Python coder! :) > Oh I got plenty of Job . /J\

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-17 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Chris Benson wrote: > Gone out an got a life? :-) ...a job, actually. I just accepted a contract as a Python coder! :) -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/