> "LW" == Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
LW> The only bizarre and inexplicable thing that has occurred to me in
LW> the last week is that I fell into a canal in Venice. It was
LW> definitely somewhat stunning, but I have yet to figure out how to
LW> view it as a stroke of geni
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:35:27PM +0100, Matthew Walton wrote:
: Austin Hastings wrote:
: >Does this mean that we're done? :)
:
: No, it means Larry's about to stun us with something seemingly bizarre
: and inexplicable which turns out to be a stroke of genius.
The only bizarre and inexplicab
Rich Morin writes:
> In any case, one way of doing something like this in Perl might
> be to have the ability to register exceptions for a range of
> quite ordinary behavior, such as entering or leaving a statement,
> setting or even accessing a variable, etc.
Or passing a variable to a function.
Rich Morin wrote:
On a vaguely-related topic, I am reminded of another friend's
desire to be able to redefine floating point values as quartets
of values. Each operation would then be done using all possible
rounding options (in the IEEE standard) and the results checked
for "significant" variatio
