This distaste is not really limited to Germans or C programmers in my
experience. Anything more complicated than
holiday.picnic() unless raining;
will ideally not appear in any code that I am required to
inspect/support/maintain.
On Wednesday, 8 June 2011, Richard Foley richard.fo...@rfi.net
Apparently out in October!
I assume Programming Perl6 will be out in 2021 by which time Centos 7 will
have 5.14.
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Steve Mynott st...@gruntling.com
On 06/08/2011 09:41 AM, Steve Mynott wrote:
Apparently out in October!
It's on the O'Reilly site, so it must be true :)
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004927/
Dave...
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:21, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
Of course, it's possible that the Comprehensive Python Archive Network
or similar for ruby/javascript/java/C/whatever does exist but I just
can't find it. But then, if I can't find it, it's not much use.
(If you were a
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 12:07 +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:21, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
Of course, it's possible that the Comprehensive Python Archive Network
or similar for ruby/javascript/java/C/whatever does exist but I just
can't find it. But
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, David Cantrell wrote:
It's the lack of a CPAN-a-like for any other language that keeps me
coming back to perl.
Of course, it's possible that the Comprehensive Python Archive Network
or similar for ruby/javascript/java/C/whatever does exist but I just
can't find it.
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 02:00:41PM +0200, Abigail wrote:
I'd rather go for sacking people that don't know the difference
between
if (something) { ... }
and
unless (!something) { ... }
It's sunny outside and pubs are open: I can think of worse times to
lose my job.
Or does
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 13:17, Tom Hukins t...@eborcom.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 02:00:41PM +0200, Abigail wrote:
I'd rather go for sacking people that don't know the difference
between
if (something) { ... }
and
unless (!something) { ... }
It's sunny outside and pubs
On 8 Jun 2011, at 13:00, Abigail wrote:
[...]
I'd rather go for sacking people that don't know the difference
between
if (something) { ... }
and
unless (!something) { ... }
Or does everyone think they are always equivalent?
Is this a trick question?
I would expect it to be
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 01:41:29PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
$ perl -le 'print $_ == !!$_ ? , $_ == !!$_ ? yes : no for (-1,
0, 1, 2, undef)'
-1 == !!-1 ? no
0 == !!0 ? yes
1 == !!1 ? yes
2 == !!2 ? no
== !! ? yes
Might as well add lua, since I'm trying to learn it at the moment (and
On 8 Jun 2011, at 13:17, Tom Hukins wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 02:00:41PM +0200, Abigail wrote:
I'd rather go for sacking people that don't know the difference
between
if (something) { ... }
and
unless (!something) { ... }
It's sunny outside and pubs are open: I can
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Paul Makepeace pa...@paulm.com wrote:
$ perl -le 'print $_ == !!$_ ? , $_ == !!$_ ? yes : no for (-1,
0, 1, 2, undef)'
-1 == !!-1 ? no
0 == !!0 ? yes
1 == !!1 ? yes
2 == !!2 ? no
== !! ? yes
Whether they are equal according to == shouldn't matter here,
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On 8 Jun 2011, at 13:41, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 13:17, Tom Hukins t...@eborcom.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 02:00:41PM +0200, Abigail wrote:
I'd rather go for sacking people that don't know the difference
between
if (something) { ... }
and
unless
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 14:15, Kaoru ka...@slackwise.net wrote:
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Paul Makepeace pa...@paulm.com wrote:
$ perl -le 'print $_ == !!$_ ? , $_ == !!$_ ? yes : no for (-1,
0, 1, 2, undef)'
-1 == !!-1 ? no
0 == !!0 ? yes
1 == !!1 ? yes
2 == !!2 ? no
== !! ? yes
On 08/06/11 13:41, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 13:17, Tom Hukinst...@eborcom.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 02:00:41PM +0200, Abigail wrote:
I'd rather go for sacking people that don't know the difference
between
if (something) { ... }
and
unless (!something)
Hakim Cassimally wrote:
While Javascript-the-language is lovely (as you say, better in some
respects, worse in others, than Perl), that's only one part of the
story. I've not followed Javascript-the-platform that closely (i.e.
anything much beyond jQuery) - what's your experience been like,
David Cantrell wrote:
It's the lack of a CPAN-a-like for any other language that keeps me
coming back to perl.
Of course, it's possible that the Comprehensive Python Archive Network
or similar for ruby/javascript/java/C/whatever does exist but I just
can't find it. But then, if I can't find
Apologies for including the top half of the digest.
Chris
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 15:37, Matt Lawrence matt.lawre...@virgin.net wrote:
Perl's canonical true and false are 1 and '' respectively
Is that so? How would one find that out?
Dump-ing 4==4 and 4==5 with Devel::Peek implies to me that true and
false are PVNVs with integer, floating-point, and
On 8 Jun 2011, at 13:17, Tom Hukins wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 02:00:41PM +0200, Abigail wrote:
I'd rather go for sacking people that don't know the difference
between
if (something) { ... }
and
unless (!something) { ... }
It's sunny outside and pubs are open: I can
On 30 May 2011 11:40, Leo Lapworthl...@cuckoo.org wrote:
I'm working on http://learn.perl.org/ and I'd like to have a few rotating
example of what can be done with Perl on the home page.
# see also perlvar: $BASETIME
{ my $t0 = time; sub elapsed { time - $t0 } }
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Ruud
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