E. Choroba

• Website: www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=832495
• About: I program in Perl.

Recent Actions

• Commented on Thank you Ack!
  BTW, XeTeX uses UTF-8 source files (probably not relevant to your thesis :-)....
• Commented on New, experimental screencasts
  I can see the player, but after clicking on "Play", I get Can't play video Media source loading has failed. What's wrong with old plain YouTube? :-)...
• Commented on PPI highlighted Mojolicious "quine"
  Oops. Just put this on one line: $a=q!print '$a=q'.$a.';';$a=~s/\x2a/\x21/g;print $a;!; print '$a=q!'.$a.'!;'; $a=~s/\x2a/\x21/g; print $a;...
• Commented on PPI highlighted Mojolicious "quine"
  Just a note: For a program to be a quine, it should accept no input. Reading its own source code disqualifies your examples as quines. This is a Perl quine, though: $a=q!print '$a=q*'.$a.'*;';$a=~s/\x2a/\x21/g;print $a;!;print '$a=q!'.$a.'!;';$a=~s/\x2a/\x21/g;print $a;...
• Commented on Be Careful With state Variables
  Yes, state variables are not as magical as one might hope: FILE: while (1) { state $first_file; LINE: while (<>) { state $first_line; say 'First file' if not $first_file++; say 'First line' if not $first_line++; # WRONG } }...

Comment Threads

• Joel Berger commented on Thank you Ack!

  Actually the bigger problems were BibTeX, which IIRC doesn’t handle unicode, and the automatic citation exports from journal websites, which pretty much give you anything they feel like. So in this case Xe wouldn’t have helped.

• Neil Bowers commented on Thank you Ack!

  Can we assume that it was a successful defense, given you’re mentioning it in public?

• Joel Berger commented on Thank you Ack!

  Not yet, my defense is on the 26th. I have completed my thesis and distributed it to my committee members at this point though. I am close to complete on my defense talk and I’m starting to look for the job that will follow.

• Nick Patch commented on Thank you Ack!

  FYI, you can optionally use \P{ASCII} instead of [^[:ascii:]] and \p{Lu} instead of \p{Upper}. The ASCII one is clearly more readable and they’re both less characters to type for one-liners. Lu and Upper are both just abbreviations for Uppercase_Letter.

• dankamongmen commented on Thank you Ack!

  Just packaged up makebeamerinfo for SprezzOS — appreciate the quality work! Congrats on the upcoming defense! I wonder if you know my buddy Nick Bronn up at UIUC, doing solid state? Tell him toast says hey.