Or something.
Scott's comment echoes my own problem(s) with Perl and your reply is extremely astute.
Wade, who has several times made the mistake of approaching Perl incorrectly.
Perl frustrations
- (tuberculosis)
- (45)
- Oct. 7, 2004, 03:55:53 PM EDT
Simple solution
- (ben_tilly)
- (10)
- Oct. 7, 2004, 05:31:13 PM EDT
Bleh.
- (admin)
- (3)
- Oct. 7, 2004, 04:42:49 PM EDT
That's because you approached it wrong
- (ben_tilly)
- (2)
- Oct. 7, 2004, 05:22:57 PM EDT
I'm gradually warming up to it
- (deSitter)
- Oct. 7, 2004, 09:08:18 PM EDT
That should be in the man page.
- (static)
- Oct. 8, 2004, 02:17:42 AM EDT
Is this a sort of typecasting?
- (tuberculosis)
- (2)
- Oct. 7, 2004, 05:36:33 PM EDT
It's a reference
-NT
- (Simon_Jester)
- Oct. 7, 2004, 06:00:50 PM EDT
Sort of
- (ben_tilly)
- Oct. 7, 2004, 06:10:14 PM EDT
Interesting....
- (Simon_Jester)
- (2)
- Oct. 7, 2004, 05:58:41 PM EDT
The solution would have its own problems
- (ben_tilly)
- (1)
- Oct. 7, 2004, 06:27:50 PM EDT
<bow> thank you.
-NT
- (Simon_Jester)
- Oct. 7, 2004, 11:14:47 PM EDT
THank you for stepping on this rake
- (Arkadiy)
- (33)
- Oct. 7, 2004, 05:20:48 PM EDT
He was overcomplicating it
- (ben_tilly)
- (32)
- Oct. 7, 2004, 05:30:04 PM EDT
Well, maybe
- (tuberculosis)
- (17)
- Oct. 7, 2004, 05:43:24 PM EDT
Agreed
- (ben_tilly)
- (16)
- Oct. 7, 2004, 06:12:17 PM EDT
Agree its a mistake
- (tuberculosis)
- (15)
- Oct. 7, 2004, 06:36:09 PM EDT
Same here.
- (admin)
- Oct. 7, 2004, 06:45:32 PM EDT
Right
- (ben_tilly)
- Oct. 7, 2004, 06:56:48 PM EDT
Shame about the inertia. Python's design is "least surprise"
- (FuManChu)
- (12)
- Oct. 7, 2004, 10:02:43 PM EDT
When I started with Perl...
- (ben_tilly)
- (11)
- Oct. 7, 2004, 10:53:12 PM EDT
On Perl 6
- (pwhysall)
- (3)
- Oct. 8, 2004, 01:53:55 AM EDT
Re: On Perl 6
- (Yendor)
- Oct. 8, 2004, 08:37:56 AM EDT
I had a nice response to this typed up
- (ben_tilly)
- (1)
- Oct. 8, 2004, 12:54:37 PM EDT
Many thanks for that
- (pwhysall)
- Oct. 9, 2004, 02:53:04 AM EDT
We're having a little brown bag on Ruby
- (tuberculosis)
- (4)
- Oct. 8, 2004, 12:46:50 PM EDT
Re: We're having a little brown bag on Ruby
- (JimWeirich)
- (3)
- Oct. 11, 2004, 06:55:34 AM EDT
Shhh! Anonymous Todd works at some other...
- (CRConrad)
- Oct. 11, 2004, 07:36:30 AM EDT
I might have been there
- (tuberculosis)
- (1)
- Oct. 11, 2004, 12:55:46 PM EDT
Re: I might have been there
- (JimWeirich)
- Oct. 11, 2004, 01:14:57 PM EDT
Re: strict -- have you seen pychecker?
- (FuManChu)
- (1)
- Oct. 8, 2004, 01:02:20 PM EDT
No I hadn't, thanks
- (ben_tilly)
- Oct. 8, 2004, 01:08:02 PM EDT
BTW Arkadiy, I'm still waiting for a response
- (ben_tilly)
- (13)
- Oct. 8, 2004, 12:57:52 PM EDT
I am not saying it's shorter in C...
- (Arkadiy)
- (10)
- Oct. 8, 2004, 03:22:09 PM EDT
And now for my real comment
- (ben_tilly)
- (2)
- Oct. 8, 2004, 03:34:09 PM EDT
May be it's a hindsight thing
- (Arkadiy)
- (1)
- Oct. 8, 2004, 03:47:36 PM EDT
It could be many things
- (ben_tilly)
- Oct. 8, 2004, 06:13:45 PM EDT
I don't know - multimap
- (Simon_Jester)
- (6)
- Oct. 9, 2004, 12:22:32 AM EDT
Re: I don't know - multimap
- (Arkadiy)
- (5)
- Oct. 9, 2004, 12:17:47 PM EDT
Why the worry about efficiency?
- (ben_tilly)
- (4)
- Oct. 9, 2004, 12:25:52 PM EDT
I worry about efficiency
- (Arkadiy)
- (1)
- Oct. 9, 2004, 12:30:44 PM EDT
Ah
- (ben_tilly)
- Oct. 9, 2004, 12:59:07 PM EDT
C vs Perl - efficiency - untrue for me
- (broomberg)
- (1)
- Oct. 9, 2004, 12:41:13 PM EDT
Point - but you may want to rebenchmark
- (ben_tilly)
- Oct. 9, 2004, 01:11:47 PM EDT
Here's a smalltalk version
- (tuberculosis)
- (1)
- Oct. 8, 2004, 06:16:21 PM EDT
Yes, think of a reference as a pointer
- (ben_tilly)
- Oct. 8, 2004, 06:43:04 PM EDT