Re: Testers & PASS

2003-08-14 Thread Iain \"Spoon\"; Truskett
* Leon Brocard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [13 Aug 2003 21:31]: [...] > Thus, I think that my website is correct in sorting the version > numbers. 1.2 should be later than 1.18. I think your versioning system > is wrong ;-) Which is the correct response. Versions should be flaots. > http://dellah.org/te

testers.cpan.org

2003-07-19 Thread Iain 'Spoon'; Truskett
Out of interest, is there a reason http://testers.cpan.org/ is so slow? cheers, -- Iain. who has written his own version because he was fed up with the speed of that site.

Re: right-to-left pipelines

2002-12-11 Thread Iain 'Spoon'; Truskett
* Damian Conway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [12 Dec 2002 10:32]: [...] > You underestimate your ability to communicate, Simon. I understood > exactly what you wanted: pass a closure to a method without needing to > wrap the closure in parens. Simon appears to want to have closures as params just like Rub

Re: Continuations

2002-11-18 Thread Iain 'Spoon'; Truskett
* Damian Conway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [19 Nov 2002 15:19]: > Luke Palmer asked: > > What was the final syntax for vector ops? > > > >@a ???+??? @b > >@a ???+??? @b > The latter (this week, at least ;-). Y'know, for those of us who still haven't set up Unicode, they look remarkably similar =

Re: String concatentation operator

2002-11-17 Thread Iain 'Spoon'; Truskett
* Dan Sugalski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [18 Nov 2002 12:56]: [...] > Perl's standard threading behaviour's going to be > rather heavyweight, though. Silly question time: Why is it going to be rather heavyweight? (Not complaining or berating, just wanting information =) ) > (Though the presentation on

Re: [RFC] Perl6 Operator List, Take 5

2002-10-31 Thread Iain 'Spoon'; Truskett
* Larry Wall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [01 Nov 2002 15:59]: [...] > I was misconfigured here. My pine was marking it as UTF-8 even though > the window was Latin-1. So you ought to be able to see this: @a «*» @b. That appeared perfectly. > I'm definitely going to look into mutt though...gotta have Unic

Re: [RFC] Perl6 Operator List, Take 5

2002-10-31 Thread Iain 'Spoon'; Truskett
* Larry Wall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [31 Oct 2002 08:22]: [...] > This is currently running in a window that does Latin-1 rather than > UTF-8. Do these French quotes come through? > @a «+» @b The window may say Latin-1, but the mail header said UTF-8. As it happens, I couldn't see them until I

Re: plaintive whine about 'for' syntax

2002-10-31 Thread Iain 'Spoon'; Truskett
* Ed Peschko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [01 Nov 2002 07:19]: [...] > for @a -> $a_variable1 is rw, $a_variable2 is rw; > @b -> $b_variable is rw; > @c -> $c_variable is rw; > @d -> $d_variable is rw; > @e -> $e_variable1 is rw, $e_variable2 is rw; > { > } > is much, *much* cle

Re: [RFC] Perl6 Operator List, Take 5

2002-10-31 Thread Iain 'Spoon'; Truskett
* Dyck, David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [31 Oct 2002 19:21]: [...] > You could use the Character Map accessory to put > the character into the clipboard, or > press the alt and hold the alt key while typing 0171 (or 0187) > < alt+0171 > > alt+0187 To be honest, as easy as it is to type ^a^v<< or ^k<<,[

Re: Private contracts?

2002-10-12 Thread Iain Spoon Truskett
* Larry Wall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [12 Oct 2002 10:51]: [...] > use Acme::1.0; > After all, we don't have package names starting with numbers right now... Well, there's than Pod::Simple::31337, which confused search.cpan.org for a bit. But none which _start_ with a number, no. cheers, -- I