Picking up a short discussion between myself and Brian Connors... ... I guess I should also say that I've worked in Perl for about 8 years, and have about a...
G. Wade Johnson
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May 30, 2001 4:07 am
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At YAPC yesterday afternoon, Damian Conway announced a new Perl module that lets you use Klingon suffixes instead of funny punctuation marks in Perl. ...
j proctor
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Jun 15, 2001 11:41 am
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... module ... marks in ... I like... Actually, I hope source code would be there. This might be a solution to the problem that made var'aq syntax what it is...
connorbd@...
Jun 16, 2001 5:24 pm
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Okay, stale discussion thread, but I didn't have a chance to follow up at the time... ... That would make you a good choice for varaq-dev then :-) ... Not too...
connorbd@...
Jun 16, 2001 5:34 pm
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In response to a comment from a non-list member I've made a minor change in one of the code examples, replacing the outdated "chel" keyword with the canon ...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jun 16, 2001 6:26 pm
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... Ahhh. In Forth, there is an interesting distinction between compile-time and run-time. People sometimes lose sight of it, because Forth code can be...
G. Wade Johnson
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Jun 16, 2001 9:18 pm
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... Of course the source code will be there. This is Perl. :) Will mere mortals be able to understand it? I suppose it's possible. Go see...
j proctor
jproctor@...
Jun 18, 2001 1:32 pm
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... The more cogent question is, will he do it RIGHT? ~mark...
Mark E. Shoulson
mark@...
Jun 19, 2001 1:38 am
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... If not, tell him. He strikes me as the kind of guy who'd rather change it than propagate problems. It looked like the right idea, anyway, if a little...
j proctor
jproctor@...
Jun 19, 2001 2:26 am
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... This makes me think of a good question -- one of the big architectural changes needed in var'aq is some kind of modularity so I can cut down on the size of...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jun 19, 2001 7:47 pm
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... Drat it, you're gonna make me go look at the code again, aren't you? If I remember what you're asking, it seems we had a short discussion about something...
j proctor
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Jun 19, 2001 8:30 pm
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Hello! Could someone check the varaq-engl.pl and varaq-kling.pl files and see if they agree that the logical operators (and, or, xor) *always* evaluate to ...
Mr. Merrick J. Stemen
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Jun 20, 2001 1:20 am
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Hello again! I have run across a couple of errors in code in the sample folder so far: in the BOTTLES.vq program, the "wa'teq" operator has been superceded by...
Mr. Merrick J. Stemen
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Jun 20, 2001 3:07 am
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... Fooey. Grumble grumble boundary condition grumble gamma function grumble. A future release will clean it up. But not tonight. I'm going to bed. j ... ...
j proctor
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Jun 20, 2001 3:53 am
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... Hmmm.. I'll take a look. ... Snobol... where does one get a compiler for that, anyway? Only place I can think of is the Unix V7 tarball you can download if...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jun 20, 2001 4:15 pm
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I ran into another snag in the interpreter. It seems that the 'name/pong' command works fine, but the 'set/cher' command fails to behave properly. I modified...
Mr. Merrick J. Stemen
mstemen@...
Jun 21, 2001 5:42 pm
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... Okay. I'll merge them in and test them out. I've actually started compiling notes on the var'aq interpreter and some adventures testing it out. I won't...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jun 22, 2001 5:40 pm
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Greetings from a new user of varaq. This language interested me, and I needed to learn perl to get some work done for my company, so I'm taking a swing at perl...
jde@...
Jul 19, 2001 4:38 pm
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... I do think we're generally agreed that the var'aq interpreter is stylistically not optimal. It will likely help you produce Perl code that works, but I...
j proctor
jproctor@...
Jul 19, 2001 4:53 pm
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I will start making a habit of issuing programming challenges to generate sample code for var'aq. The first challenge: a var'aq quine. Real simple: create a...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jul 19, 2001 5:20 pm
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The big architectural changes in the interpreter are a ways off, but right now I have decided that the next version of var'aq will have a unified interpreter ...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jul 23, 2001 3:15 pm
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So... this is what I personally want to do with var'aq in the near future. -The addition of list support includes a couple of new operators that will be added...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jul 24, 2001 5:09 pm
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Posted to the list in case Chris or someone else might have some insight... ... Yes. I tested it and this is correct. ... The way you've got it written here,...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jul 26, 2001 12:00 am
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Ach, posted too soon... I have dishonored myself... ... For a completely different reason than the one I just posted. From the look of it the interpreter is...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jul 26, 2001 12:09 am
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I'm in the process of adding a couple of list functions to the standard and I can't seem to find either of my copies of the Klingon dictionary. Would anyone...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jul 26, 2001 3:43 pm
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The next reference release will be "martoq" and will probably be available mid-August. I expect it to include the following: -Jeff's enhanced list support ...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jul 26, 2001 3:45 pm
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It appears that execblock() needs a "my $i" so that it's counter isn't reset when it calls recursive blocks. Brian, I am sending you another copy of my...
Jeff Evarts
riventree@...
Jul 28, 2001 6:57 pm
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Looks like I named the function "empty" instead of "empty?". Sorry. -Jeff -- -Jeff Evarts --riventree@......
Jeff Evarts
riventree@...
Jul 28, 2001 7:05 pm
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A long time ago I wrote part of a storyline about a Klingon hacker; I haven't published it here yet, but I'd like to get some ideas of what Klingon hackerdom ...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jul 29, 2001 4:04 pm
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... Although not a serious Klingon enthusiast, I am a good programmer, a student of the sword, and believe I understand the concept of a warrior culture. Given...
