Dan Sugalski wrote:
> it's not exactly exciting watching two people hit return three times
> in front of a roomful of people.
Although watching two people hit each other in the face with custard
pies three times in front of a roomful of people may be a lot more fun.
Progamming language benchmar
Butler, Gerald wrote:
> How about: "tocsin"
[...thinking out loud...]
I'm not sure it's a good idea to use an obscure word, even if it is
appropriate to the usage. It should be a word that the average user
would recognise, and hopefully be able to intuit some sense of what it
does.
How about "P
Dan wrote:
> Should be FINALIZE.
Although some in the non-US English speaking world might say it should
be FINALISE.
Perhaps FINAL might be a better choice? That would please more of the
people for more of the time (or displease them for less of the time).
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Steve Fink wrote:
> [...] does fit well with the -Oj flag. "Parrot -- now with extra juice!"
-Oj Simpson?
"Parrot -- now get away with murder!" :-)
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Dan Sugalski wrote much sense, including these gems:
> *) Method: Some sort of action that an object can do. Methods are
> global and public--only one foo method for an object. Methods may be
> inherited from parent classes, or redefined in a particular class.
> Redefined methods hide parent cla
Steve Fink wrote:
> (UNPIN would probably be better than RELEASE, huh?)
Maybe ATTACH / DETACH or AQUIRE / RELEASE?
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On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 03:20:35PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> I'm pretty sure the iterators they build are just closures with named
> arguments, and behave as any other closure would behave.
Not quite. Ruby iterators expect a block. This is very much like a closure
except that block paramet
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On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 02:57:42PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> >b) 'a\"b' was printing being stored as a\"b and not a"b
>
> The patch for the first looks good, but I'm not sure about the
> second. Have we settled on the behavior of single-quoted strings?
Don't know about "settled" but I sugges
I came across a nice picture of a parrot in New Scientist while riding
the train home one night and it inspired me to sketch up a quick parrot
logo. By chance, a new version of Photoshop landed on my desk the very
next day, giving me the perfect opportunity to dust off the graphics tablet.
Here
ntage of Perl
hackers prepared to recode Perl in XS for performance is rather small.
I've always thought that many, if not most, if not all, of the core
Perl modules should be written in XS/C, so that people can happily
use them without worrying about the overhead of loading N thousand line
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