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Thursday, January 11th, 2007
4:07 pm	Robert Anton Wilson dies I mistakenly opened a spam email when I thought I was opening one about Robert Anton Wilson's passing. The first words I saw were: footsteps, in the garden that I dreamed of walking in all night I think that would have appealed to aleatoric Uncle Bob. :) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
10:37 pm	e7's pluggable text quoters in format strings I just implemented this. :) The idea is that a format escape like %'foo's applies foo-quotation to the generated text. (%r also supports this) Here's a REPL session: >>> (format "<h1>%'html's</h1>" "<<>>") 0 (format "<h1>%'html's</h1>" "<<>>") /dev/ttyp4:1 FormatError: unknown quoter name html at 6 "<h1>%'html's</h1>" >>> (import strings) >>> (import html) >>> (setattr strings.format-quoters 'html html.escape) #<EFunction (s) (begin (set s (replace "&" "&amp;" s)) (set s (replace "<" "&lt ;" s)) (set s (replace ">" "&gt;" s)) (set s (replace "'" "&apos;" s)) (set s ( replace "\"" "&quot;" s)) s)> >>> (format "<h1>%'html's</h1>" "<<>>") "<h1>&lt;&lt;&gt;&gt;</h1>" (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, September 3rd, 2005
8:20 pm	U.S. Chief Justice Rehnquist Dead ..and I just read this thing about him eating most of Sandra Day O'Connor's brain: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/37456 (via geoffcapp) (1 Comment |Comment on this)