Re: Name for barcode-reading module?

2009-02-17 Thread Keith Ivey
Now I'm leaning toward Barcode::Decoder. Thanks, Smylers! (It seems like object-oriented modules should have names that are nouns, but I don't know how widespread that idea is in the module-writing community.) -- Keith C. Ivey Washington, DC

Re: Name for barcode-reading module?

2009-02-17 Thread Keith Ivey
Okay, it seems like Barcode is the best namespace for it. As Bill says, the module is essentially OCR for barcodes, so if there were a good space for OCR-related modules it might fit there, but there doesn't seem to be one. I've thought about Barcode::Reader, but that could give people the id

Name for barcode-reading module?

2009-02-11 Thread Keith Ivey
I've written some code to recognize and read barcodes in images that I want to clean up and release as a module. I haven't found any module that duplicates the functionality. The idea is that you give it an image (JPEG, PNG, or anything else handled by GD) that contains a barcode and it retur

Re: Date::Piece months and weeks

2008-01-04 Thread Keith Ivey
Jonathan Rockway wrote: Uh, in en_US we say this too. There are people in the US (and probably other places) for whom "I went to the zoo this Sunday" is perfectly grammatical. Some might say "this past Sunday" to distinguish it from "this coming Sunday", but the tense of the verb is enough.

Re: Date::Piece months and weeks

2008-01-04 Thread Keith Ivey
Eric Wilhelm wrote: I'm still working on "when is this Sunday", which is going to be a bit tricky. ISO 8601 defines the week starting on Monday ("this Sunday" is always in the future) while the bible (and perl's localtime) claims it as the first day ("this Sunday" is always in the past.) This

Re: Date::Piece -- Happy New Year

2008-01-03 Thread Keith Ivey
Johan Vromans wrote: I'd say that January 30 + 1 month should be March 1, not February 29. I might agree, but whichever alternative is chosen, (January 30 + 1 month) + 1 month != January 30 + 2 months I don't think there's a solution without making a month a fixed number of days, which w

Re: Test failures - I can't work out why

2007-05-02 Thread Keith Ivey
Ovid wrote: Nope. Aristotle's right. I definitely meant Zawinsky. He runs the DNA Lounge (http://www.dnalounge.com/). Their music seems awesome. If I ever get to that part of the world, I might just drop in. (Zawodny works for Yahoo!) Yeah, "Zawodny" was a joke. But JWZ is still Zawinski

Re: Test failures - I can't work out why

2007-05-02 Thread Keith Ivey
A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-02 12:40]: Jamie Zawicky Zawinsky. Zawinski, actually -- or is it Zawodny? -- Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Washington, DC

Re: supporting older perls

2007-03-05 Thread Keith Ivey
Dr.Ruud wrote: Keith Ivey schreef: Dr.Ruud: Greg Matheson: A. Pagaltzis: Write the same thing without syntactic sugar from constant.pm. sub C1 () { 'C1' } Mmh. I see constant.pm does very little. Well, it nicely sets things up for the compiler to optimize. perl -MO=

Re: supporting older perls

2007-03-04 Thread Keith Ivey
Dr.Ruud wrote: Greg Matheson schreef: A. Pagaltzis: Write the same thing without syntactic sugar from constant.pm. sub C1 () { 'C1' } Mmh. I see constant.pm does very little. Well, it nicely sets things up for the compiler to optimize. perl -MO=Deparse -e 'use constant PI => 3.1

Re: Delete hate speech module

2007-02-08 Thread Keith Ivey
Randy Kobes wrote: Perhaps, if nothing else, the terms of usage of the package: http://search.cpan.org/src/BANTOWN/Time-Cubic-1.0/LICENSE by which one *must* commit at least three violations of the named parts of the US Criminal Code to use it, makes it unsuitable for CPAN. Hmm, SNMP::APCU

Re: Delete hate speech module

2007-02-08 Thread Keith Ivey
Tim Maher wrote: I'm generally against the idea of censorship in all its forms, ... Are you equally outraged by the fact that this list goes through a spam filter? That "module" is just spam. -- Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Washington, DC

Re: DNS zone transfer module

2006-04-25 Thread Keith Ivey
A. Pagaltzis wrote: Maybe ForceAXfer? I only have a superficial knowledge of the DNS protocol, but I assume that the “A” refers to A records and the “xfer” part is a separate word. Is that right? If so, treating them as separate words would look better. Since the opcode is AXFR (no "e"), should

Re: RFC: Getopt::Modern

2005-06-16 Thread Keith Ivey
Eric Wilhelm wrote: If this is the case, then the cat to be skinned is a couple of steps to the left, since an alias override is a different beast than a config-file override (and not having any way to tell them apart isn't going to help either.) I don't see what makes them so different -- f

Re: RFC: Getopt::Modern

2005-06-16 Thread Keith Ivey
Eric Wilhelm wrote: Ok. Here's one edge-case which probably involves somebody smart enough to not get stuck in it. Is this really a good argument for perplexing the user the other 99% of the time? It seems to me that that situation is far more than 1%, more like 99%, of the times *when bot

Re: Namespace question: Ekahau location sensing system

2005-05-20 Thread Keith Ivey
Should it go under Geo? -- Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Washington, DC

Re: how to interpolate html entities easily (HOWTO) (full text of Entitize.pm)

2005-04-21 Thread Keith Ivey
David Nicol wrote: or even a doc-patch for HTML::Entities. I think my political goal here is fame points through getting Tie::Function into wider use. What is the advantage of Tie::Function over MJD's similar Interpolation.pm? -- Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Washington, DC

Re: Namespace Advice

2005-04-07 Thread Keith Ivey
Chris Dolan wrote: On Apr 6, 2005, at 11:06 AM, Reinhard Pagitsch wrote: I would suggest now to name the module Win32::Storage::ReadSummaryInfo. I like this better than before, but why not Win32::Document::SummaryInfo? It seems to me that if the module deals with what Windows calls "Properties",