On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 04:58:06PM +, Edmund von der Burg wrote:
2009/11/28 Mark Fowler m...@twoshortplanks.com:
Pub socials start essentially after people are done with work.
For those who are CFT enabled the social essentially starts with the
dim sum lunch, followed by some sort of
Seeing as last year's quiz was mildly popular, I thought I'd do another one.
I've changed the mix of questions based on what people submitted answers to
last year - it also arguably a little more educational this time around.
Any feedback about the quiz, either private or public is welcome.
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 06:24:12PM +, Chris Jack said:
6) What is the name of the official Soft Toy Camel of the London Perl Mongers?
Bonus mark if you own one.
I bet only 2 people get this correct although I suspect several people
will get the answer the OP was thinking of.
On 30/11/09 18:24, Chris Jack wrote:
In-Reply-To: mailman.10014.1258641251.36522.london...@london.pm.org
References: mailman.10014.1258641251.36522.london...@london.pm.org
Grrr
1) Without running it to check, what does the following program output?
my %a = (3,2,1,0);
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 07:38:31PM +, Dave Cross said:
According to the Beanie Baby people, he's called Niles. According to us
(and the 2001 leadership election ballot papers) she's called Amelia.
[ SPOILER SPACE ]
Actually - there are two
Dave == Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk writes:
1) Without running it to check, what does the following program output?
my %a = (3,2,1,0);
for my $b (sort values %a) {
$b += 4;
}
print $a{1} . \n;
Dave Without running it, I'd say 4. Having now run it, I'm glad that's what I
said
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:14:21PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Dave == Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk writes:
1) Without running it to check, what does the following program output?
my %a = (3,2,1,0);
for my $b (sort values %a) {
$b += 4;
}
print $a{1} . \n;
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 06:24:12PM +, Chris Jack wrote:
Seeing as last year's quiz was mildly popular, I thought I'd do another
one. I've changed the mix of questions based on what people submitted
answers to last year - it also arguably a little more educational this
time around.
Any
On Nov 30, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Graham Barr wrote:
On Nov 30, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Dave == Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk writes:
1) Without running it to check, what does the following program output?
my %a = (3,2,1,0);
for my $b (sort values %a) {
$b += 4;
On Nov 30, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Dave == Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk writes:
1) Without running it to check, what does the following program output?
my %a = (3,2,1,0);
for my $b (sort values %a) {
$b += 4;
}
print $a{1} . \n;
Dave Without running it,
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 03:22:04PM -0600, Graham Barr wrote:
On Nov 30, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Graham Barr wrote:
On Nov 30, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Dave == Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk writes:
1) Without running it to check, what does the following program
Merry Ex-Mass.
A sysadmin and pedant's point of view
On 30/11/2009 18:24, Chris Jack wrote:
1) Without running it to check, what does the following program output?
Something like:
bash: syntax error near unexpected token '('
Don't assume my default interpreter is your default
Graham == Graham Barr gb...@pobox.com writes:
Graham I meant to add that this change to sort was added to 5.6.0. So to
Graham answer your question it was nearly a decade ago :-)
Yeah, well it wasn't true when I was running Perl 2.0 on the One True
Unix under the Real Bourne Shell
:-)
--
On 30 Nov 2009, at 18:24, Chris Jack wrote:
Seeing as last year's quiz was mildly popular,
Bonus question:
How many people will be mildly irritated by starting a new thread
with a Reply-to: to an existing one?
--
Dave HodgkinsonMSN: daveh...@hotmail.com
On Nov 30, 2009, at 14:43, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
On 30 Nov 2009, at 18:24, Chris Jack wrote:
Seeing as last year's quiz was mildly popular,
Bonus question:
How many people will be mildly irritated by starting a new thread
with a Reply-to: to an existing one?
Answer:
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:43:19PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
How many people will be mildly irritated by starting a new thread
with a Reply-to: to an existing one?
Meh, judging by the headers he's probably never used a threaded email
client so has no reason to know any better. No point in
On Nov 30, 2009, at 13:21, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
A sysadmin and pedant's point of view
I take it sysadmins are too angry and bitter to understand or care for the
holiday[1] spirit I'm sure the quiz was sent in. Why don't you go change
someones password?
- ask
[1]
On Nov 30, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Abigail wrote:
I meant to add that this change to sort was added to 5.6.0. So to answer
your question it was nearly a decade ago :-)
Which was the same release where values() returned aliases instead of copies.
Ah, you are right. sort was before that. the
Abigail abig...@abigail.be wrote
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 06:24:12PM +, Chris Jack wrote:
7) Write a one line program that takes a non-negative integer as an argument
and prints the square root when the answer's an integer.
Restrictions: the perl line should be a regular
Chris Jack chris_j...@msn.com wrote:
Abigail abig...@abigail.be wrote
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 06:24:12PM +, Chris Jack wrote:
7) Write a one line program that takes a non-negative integer as an
argument
and prints the square root when the answer's an integer.
Restrictions: the perl
James Coupe ja...@zephyr.org.uk wrote:
$ perl -e '(1 x $ARGV[0]) =~ m/^(1*)((??{$1x(length($1)-1)})$)(?(2)(?{print
length $1}))/' 4
2
I don't recommend trying it on large numbers. 1024 was about as high as
my boredom threshold could tolerate on this box.
Oh, it gets better if I do something
Abigail wrote:
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 06:24:12PM +, Chris Jack wrote:
7) Write a one line program that takes a non-negative integer as an argument
and prints the square root when the answer's an integer.
Restrictions: the perl line should be a regular expression.
Just a regular
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