Re: Typing about typing

Post #87,181 by deSitter 3/10/03 9:55:19 PM Reply	Re: Typing about typing Wow, Perl people are weird :) Ever go metaphysical, like Rilke or Stevens? Or even Cummings? -drl
Post #87,185 by Ovid 3/10/03 10:03:06 PM 3/10/03 10:37:38 PM Reply	Re: Typing about typing Nope. I'm pretty much a fan of the Victorian poets and Ovid. Can't explain it any more than that! And yes, we're weird. Where else would you find a module ([link\|http://search.cpan.org/author/OVID/Acme-Code-Police-2.1828/\|Acme::Code::Police]) that checked to see if the programmer enabled the pragma that forces him to predeclare his variables and, if he didn't, deletes the program? However, someone else got cheeky and wrote [link\|http://search.cpan.org/author/GMCCAR/Acme-Code-FreedomFighter-3.1416/\|Acme::Code::FreedomFighter] which looks for my module and disables it. I've toyed with the idea of writing Acme::Code::PoliceState which searches for Acme::Code::FreedomFighter, renames it to Acme::Code::Terrorist and symlinks the two. "My mistress deceives me. So what?, I'd rather be lied to than ignored." -- Ovid Edited by Ovid March 10, 2003, 10:37:38 PM EST Expand All History
Post #87,186 by deSitter 3/10/03 10:04:23 PM Reply	Re: Typing about typing Yeah I figured :) We have nothing in common - we should get along great. -drl
Post #87,218 by jake123 3/11/03 12:47:48 AM Reply	Re: Typing about typing Yes. I'm learning a medium typed language now (java), but most of my experience in rexx, where everything is a string... well... unless you're using object rexx, where you can have collections of strings (arrays, directories, bags, yadda). \r\n\r\n Rexx is one of the easiest languages I've ever seen; if you've got a linux box floating around, download the IBM orexx environment for linux (free download) and give it a try. In comp.os.os2.mail.news recently, there was some yacking about how to parse out obfuscated email addresses during a discussion about how to do it right. I'm not a perl expert (nor even a newb, really), but here's how you'd do one in rexx: \r\n\r\n Assume that the string "jake at mail dot consultron dot ca" is in a var called email: \r\n\r\n email = email~translate(' at ', '@')~translate(' dot ', '.') \r\n\r\n though this particular construction is only possible in object rexx. \r\n\r\n Oh, and lest I forget... \r\n\r\n rexxtry charout(,('shun'0d0a~x2c)~copies(50)) --\r\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \r\n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \r\n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\r\n-------------------------------------------------------------------

Welcome to IWETHEY!