e
One thousand eight hundred twenty one
Eighteen hundred and twenty one
As far as *I* am concerned, the middle one is wrong (although I believe it
is considered correct in some parts of the world), and whether to use the
first or the thrid form would depend on context.
--
David Cantrell | [EMAIL
ighty-nine
You are making the common mistake of assuming that your dialect of
English is correct for all English speakers. It most obviously isn't.
--
David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david
The voices said it's a good day to clean my weapons.
it'll do what I tell it to do. This may have more to
do with me having no formal CS education but plenty of 8-bit haXX0ring
than anything else :-)
--
David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 04:43:38PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> The core's going to look big, but be small
What, like am inside-out TARDIS?
--
David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanc
ch a null-op pragma were to go into the next perl 5.8.x release
people could start preparing their existing code for perl 6 right now.
Which is surely a Good Thing. And of course if the pragma were to also
be available to download seperately from the CPAN people still using
older 5.x releases could still use it.
--
David Cantrell
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 02:27:08PM +0200, Juerd wrote:
> David Cantrell skribis 2004-04-13 13:16 (+0100):
> > Perl 6, we are promised, will try to run "legacy" code unchanged. How
> > will it spot such legacy code? Doing this reliably is a hard problem,
> > but we
n a package, then start
> it with "package main".
This is something that should be brought to a wider audience cos then
you won't get more people like me wandering in and asking silly
questions. I shall write something up for perlmonks tomorrow.
--
David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence
to type and
.
This is what is so wrong about allowing unicode operators - yes, I don't
need to write them, but if some other programmer writes one I have to be
able to read it. And I can't.
--
David Cantrell | Reprobate | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david
When a man is tir
Mark J. Reed wrote:
On 2004-06-07 at 21:33:03, David Cantrell wrote:
This is what is so wrong about allowing unicode operators - yes, I don't
need to write them, but if some other programmer writes one I have to be
able to read it. And I can't.
Well, for one thing, just because your ema
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:30:51AM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:52:32PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> > But when I'm using a
> > terminal session, I have found that the only practical way of get
design of the Perl 6 language. Unfortunately an implementation does
> not yet exist, but we're working on it.
Well, Autrijus is working on it :-)
--
David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age
It doesn't matter to me if someone else's computer is faster because
I know m
ility* of using non-ascii letters in
> > identifiers, even.
> I think we already have Latin-1 in identifiers...
more's the pity.
> Let's see about UTF-8
> pugs> my $??? = 1;
> undef
> pugs> $???;
> 1
I see a sequence of
Urdu, right up to the moment that
they want their English, or Russian, or German, or Japanese users to
submit patches.
--
David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic
It's my experience that neither users nor customers can articulate
what it is they want, nor can they evaluate it when they see it
-- Alan Cooper
13 matches
Mail list logo
