Re: Pipeline Performance

2004-09-19 Thread Jonadab the Unsightly One
Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's actually a very good idea. That's why Perl 6 has it :-) > > sub MediansBy5 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) { > gather { > while @list >= 5 { # there's no .length; it's .elems > take (sort @list.splice(0,5))[2]; > }

Re: What Requires Core Support (app packaging)

2004-09-19 Thread Richard Proctor
On Sun 19 Sep, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote: > >> Archimedes. It doesn't allow them at all, from what I understand. > > > > It probably doesn't disallow file extensions [per se], but the dot > > Could be. I haven't used it personally. The name should be Risc-OS - the Archimedes is one of t

Re: What Requires Core Support (app packaging)Z

2004-09-19 Thread Adam D. Lopresto
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote: > James Mastros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >As a special case, if the "filename" argument to perl is a > >directory, and the directory contains a file named "main.pl", > >then the directory is prepended to @*INC, and main.pl is