My TIP to add a way
to introspect the amount of buffered unread data was accepted by the
TCT on the eve of the feature freeze for Tcl 8.5. Voting in favor were
Donald Porter,
Andreas Kupries,
Kevin Kenny,
Donal Fellows,
Richard Hipp, and
Jeff Hobbs.
The final version of the TIP ended up differing from my
initial proposal. Rather than
[chan available $chan] we have [chan pending input $chan]
and [chan pending output $chan]. I like the syntax and symmetry
much better now.
My patch implementing TIP 287 has been commited to the
CVS HEAD and will be
in 8.5. I'm glad to have been able to contribute something (albeit small)
back to the core.
— Michael A. Cleverly
Friday, December 01,
2006
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Shauna's been writing our annual Christmas letter. She tries to make
it fun & interesting and not boring ("look at how great and amazing and
so much smarter our children are"). She writes the content in Word and I
typeset it with XeTeX to make it look just a little bit nicer. (I feel
that I need to be involved in the process somehow...)
Word helpfully popped up this warning when I went to export her document
to plain text:
I find this dialog silly because Word ought to be able to:
- Tell definitively that the document does (or does not) contain formatting
- Know for sure that the document is (or is not) password protected
- Realize that the document has not been modified at all since the last time it was saved in Word's native format
Peradventure the document contained both formatting and was
password protected... shouldn't that dialog say "and/or" instead of just
a plain "or" to cover all contingencies? ;-)
— Michael A. Cleverly
Tuesday, December 05,
2006
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The window of opportunity for our twins
to be born in 2006 is rapidly vanishing. I think it'd be really fun if the
first were born before midnight (in 2006) while the other was born just
after midnight (in 2007).
Shauna's just plain ready for them to be born
anytime (they are past the 35-week mark, which is a major milestone for twin
development). But unless something happens Really Soon Now(tm) we'll
have to content ourselves with both babies being born in the same year...
:-)
— Michael A. Cleverly
Sunday, December 31,
2006
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