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belg4mit on 2001-10-22T20:55:07

Belga Cron

Well it's been running 36 hours and is up 8 bytes. I'm guessing this 8 bytes has something to do with some guts. I plan on keeping it running through at least 11/1 and if all goes well release it soon after.

Acme::English

I had an idea for a module that seemed really good at the time and got under my skin but after I started implementing it it seemed pretty pointless. Maybe I'll release it as script but I don't think it really needs to be a module if it exists at all.

So the idea was along the lines of Bleach etc. cleaning the code. Symbols would be replaced with their English counterparts as per:

http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/aa032497.htm

Other conceptual problems ran into was I wanted to allow the user to use variant names of characters, either by defining them themselves

use Acme::English qw('*'=>Patrick);

or sets

use Acme::English (:pretentious); # # is an octothorpe etc.

The problem with this is which to honor? The jargon file lists many common names for most characters, not counting the lesser names.

*sigh*