No, I don't have any formal theory, any actual code, and much less benchmarks to prove this, I'm just waving my hands to keep warm. % Sentences long extremely and notation Polish reverse in writing about wrong is what? % Well, as soon as I fix UTF-8 character classes, but that's another story to scare small children with. % 'Milking a dromedary -- a highly intelligent and not always good-natured beast -- is, she confesses, "a process of negotiation."' % A vendor abandoning a platform does not mean we have to follow the suit (if anything, we might continue the support just out of spite...) % Alan, will you stop this moment dragging people back from the slave pits I have so generously prepared for them :-) % > Don't fret too much over it just yet, I was merely issuing a heads up. fret fret fret. Isn't that what pumpkings are more or less supposed to do? % Hey, we are Perl programmers, we do only honorable errors. It's the programmers of other languages who get crucified :-) % Damian's been giving people ideas again, that shameless Ozzie. % Uh-oh, I smell an arbitrary number. % I can let you in to the ultimate locale secret: Avoid. % open my $fh, "< :LATIN-0", FABRICATIDIEMPVNC or dulce_et_decorum_est_pro_patria_mori $!; % I'm almost tempted to paraphrase Felix Gallo by saying: "Oh my goodness! Someone left the NickClarkulator on over the weekend!" :-) % Disclaimer: I work at the reg*.{[hc],sym} like a novice alchemist: I pour the blue liquid on the red liquid. If it doesn't blow up on my face, I proceed to turn up the flame under the blue liquid, and so on. I have very little idea of what I am really doing, I just like the pretty colors :-) % "I have this wonderful patch that fixes all the bugs for ever in Perl but unfortunately the margin of this monitor is too narrow to include it." % > I meant ?:, not :? and ??, of course. Fooled me :-) Maybe the Perlian sentence modifier style has crept into your C...? I know that I often stare at the C compiler moaning about my perfectly sensible 'print "$p\n";'... % Your orthogonal is orthogonal to my orthogonal. % Your orthogonal is orthogonal to my orthogonal... Now, can we, orthogonally, get back from semantics and back to doing horribly orthogonal things to the regex engine...? :-) % ... if so far I had been happily bouncing around the strange lands of Reg-Ex and shouting back "Dragons? What dragons?" to people frantically waving their hands (safely beyond the borders, funny that)... now I can attest to nasty monsters being fully alive, and full of flame... % I'm currently dodging core dumps falling from the sky, but I think I'm running in generally right direction... % Now, stepping off my pedestal, I would file an angry bug report on all the examples Abigal just demonstrated, but I have this sinking feeling of just who would have to fix them :-) % Simon, meet Peter. Peter, meet Simon. Peter, Simon, meet a shared goal. You may engage your keyboard and brain now. % It's supposed to become standard. (Nick, stop waving your hands so frantically :-) % Looks good enough for me. Then again, I found haggis to be edible :-) % The below seems to fix the bug, just don't ask me why... % [The semantics] are about as clear as mercury, and as about as healthy and easy to pin down too. % When you have no nails your hammer grows restless, and you begin to throw sideways glances at screws and pieces of string. % If among you you can't get at least a design done, we should forget about I/O disciplines and I should retire to the Tassili-in-Aijer mountains in Sahara as a camel herder :-) % &more_coffee for 1..3; % Okay, enough of this idle misguided thought of mine, these are not the droids you are looking for. % Hey, now you've made me feel like a cold heartless bastard :-) I'd prefer an old forgetful fool, though. % > I wouldn't call that a fix, I would call it a work-around. Please show us what a fix looks like, then...? :-) % (looking at the mirror) - Jarkko, did you run vms/vms_yfix.pl after mucking with perly.[hc]? (looking at own toes) - Did you or did you not? (picking own nose, still staring at own toes) - Awww, okay, you did not. % This message will self-destruct in a few minutes by being dragged into an endless discussion thread about what features to include. % > Let's talk about pseudo-hashes, Yes. They should die. How's that for a polemic statement? :-) % Somehow, strangely, this was already fixed...maybe I did it subconsciously, maybe there are helpful little gnomes running around in the repository and fixing bugs while we sleep, I don't know... % > So, what happens first? I pour myself a cup of strong coffee. :-) % Thanks, applied! % No point shaving in the morning if you are a kamikaze pilot? % It's the dreaded ?? operator, run! % I'm sorry but this is not portable to Mayan calendar in EBCDIC Amigas. % (on Larry's "Apocalypse") "Me, I've been racking my brain to figure out whether Damian is Famine, War, Plague, or Death..."