From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932319AbVHNVwy (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:52:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932316AbVHNVwy (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:52:54 -0400 Received: from smtpout.mac.com ([17.250.248.88]:8128 "EHLO smtpout.mac.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932319AbVHNVwx (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:52:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: References: <42FDE286.40707@v.loewis.de> <1123958572.11295.7.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v733) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Cc: Lee Revell , Stephen Pollei , =?ISO-8859-1?Q? "Martin_v._L=F6wis" ?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Kyle Moffett Subject: Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:52:36 -0400 To: Jason L Tibbitts III X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.733) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Aug 14, 2005, at 02:18:13, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: >>>>>> "LR" == Lee Revell writes: > LR> Is Larry smoking crack? > > From the Perl6-Bible: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perl6-Bible/lib/ > Perl6/Bible/S03.pod: I think this confirms that the answer is yes. See the following at the above URL: > Note that ?^ is functionally identical to !.?| differs from || in > that ?| always > returns a standard boolean value (either 1 or 0), whereas || > returns the actual > value of the first of its arguments that is true. Since when is the string "!.?|" an operator??? Or "?^", "+|", "~|", "?|", etc. I think Larry's gone off the deep end on this one. It may be an incredibly powerful and expressive language, but it seems _really_ strange, and probably will produce the best Obfuscated-code contest the world has ever seen. (Better even than the Perl5 one). Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible -- Alan Kay