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Gnustavo

  • Commented on <code>Itch.scratch()</code>
    I knew I had seen this construct before. In any case, your posts never fail to amaze me. Thanks!...
  • Commented on Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?
    I think the renaming is long overdue. I hope it's for the good. As for the new name I don't particularly like Raku. For a Brazilian Portuguese speaker it sounds harsh. But I think it's mostly about having time to...
  • Commented on Greed is good, balance is better, beauty is best.
    This is absolutely mind boggling!...
  • Commented on Chopping substrings
    It's such a pleasure to read your posts... Thank you!...
  • Commented on Why?
    Is this what she meant? my @articles = sort {$a->{article_description_rank} <=> $b->{article_description_rank}} grep {$_->{article_description_cat} eq $category} @$alteration;...
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  • Ovid commented on Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?

    Shenanigans: thanks, fixed! :)

  • Aaron Priven commented on Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?

    In general, I think the "rename Perl 6 to Raku / rename perl 5 as perl 7" is a good solution, but I would suggest that the Perl 5 -> Perl 7 bump should happen only when there is at least something notable to include in it that would otherwise justfy the change. (Native OO system, non-experimental signatures with named parameters, something like that.)

    I mean, the big user-visible improvement in Perl 5.30 was "The upper limit 'n' specifiable in a regular expression quantifier of the form '{m,n}' has been doubled to 65534", which was pretty underwhelming. And so far, the most notable …

  • Tom Legrady commented on <code>Itch.scratch()</code>

    I love the basic construct, but I feel reusing the keyword 'esle' could lead to confusion when quickly scanning the code. Perhaps something slightly distinct, 'forelse' or 'felse'?

    But then I use ridicule 'foreach' as too long, when you can type 'for'.

  • Phil Perry commented on Greed is good, balance is better, beauty is best.

    There are some major problems with the last "Winter of our discontent" soliloquy. It is full of "stacks", which are the same word (or similar) repeated at the beginning at least once on following lines. Here we have two adjacent lines starting with "the" and four with "our". This makes is difficult for the eye to properly track when scanning back to the beginning to pick up the next line (the reader ends up on the wrong line). The same problem can arise with a stack at the end of a line. The cost function would need to be expanded to penalize repeated words…

  • Phil Perry commented on Greed is good, balance is better, beauty is best.

    I must also comment on your use of the terms "widow" and "orphan". Those are not the standard definitions that I've seen used by other authorities. An orphan is "born alone" (first line of the paragraph is on one page or column, and the remainder is on the next page or column). A widow "dies alone", with the last line of a paragraph on the next page or column. Related, it is very undesirable to hyphenate the last word in a column, as the reader has to remember more moving to the next page or column. A cub is the isolated last word of the paragraph…

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