So, I've finished ex**s for the year. I've got a month of relaxing before I start working for The Man.
I saw Nelson Goerner and the BBC Philharmonic play the Rach 3 recently, which was wonderful. I'm going to miss having piano access (the University has a lovely grand piano in one of the lecture theatres) over the Summer.
What to do with the next month? Two things:
- Get better at chess - I'm out of practice. Hopefully FICS will get me back in shape. I'd also like to try and research some midgames in the Modern; I've been playing (and winning, thankfully) with it lately, and my books don't cover many of the lines, though I've more on the way. Amazon is my co-pilot.
- Hack teh Regexps@$!! - I'd also like to sit alone in a dark room for a few days and come out with named backreferences for regexps for the perl5 re engine, as Python has - viz.
/(?P<word>\b\w+)\s+(?P=word)/ and repeated words; Robin talked about these recently and made a lot of sense.
Congrats, of course, to Jarkko et al for 5.8.0-RC1. In other news,
this cartoon (entirely worksafe) made me giggle.
Named Backreferences
chromatic on 2002-06-02T21:08:37
Regexp::English emulates this. (Somehow, it's not in the CPAN index.)
Re:Named Backreferences
Elthek on 2002-06-03T01:36:15
Regexp::English emulates this.
It does, too. Damn. Thanks. I guess now I need to find something else to do with a knowledge of automata and Kleene algebra.
No, I'm not going to port PCRE to Perl. I'm crazy, but. :-)
- Chris.
cartoon
TorgoX on 2002-06-03T00:12:20
A two-color scan saved as a JPG? You'll go to data format hell for this!
