From the "Optimist T-shirt" in ComputerGear.com catalog:

Optimist:	The glass is half full.
Pessimist:	The glass is half empty.
Engineer:	The glass is twice the size it needs to be.

The glass is. It is just is.

Groovy, man.

The glass is. It is just is.

Deep philosophical approach. But the realm of Perl is pragmatics, as $Larry likes to put it: my Perl driven approach is that the glass' fill() method should be called quite often. Although with roles I would have a class Pint do that, with my alcoholic beverage of choice of course... Now, ain't this pragmatic?

The glass is always full. The tricky part is figuring out what it's full of.

The running joke about the professor filling the glass with rocks, then again with pebbles, then again with sand, then again with beer, always asking if the glass is full, and always the students say yes.... The fictitious(?) professor ignores the fact that the glass *is* always full, and that he's always displacing something (air) with something else to "fill" the glass.
Of course, the student response that "there's always room for beer" works too :-)

wolfger,
The argument could be made that the glass is always empty too. Or at least, so close to empty no one cares. I am of course talking about the nature of atoms and how much of the building blocks of matter are empty. You can't make the argument that the empty part is filled with air.

Cheers - L~R

You can't make the argument that the empty part is filled with air.

Not with air, but how 'bout the quanta of the interaction holding electrons and nuclei tied up? But seriously, how could we get here, when everything seemd to have started from the idea of a good glass of beer, or wine? Now, where's my pint of Slalom Strong?!?

. . . falling. Stormy weather ahead.

sub b{[@b=(abs||n.o,bottle."s"x!!++$_,of,beer),on,the,wall]}print
"@{+b},\n@b,\nTake one down, pass it around,\n@{+b}.\n"for-pop||-99..-
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(code by mtve and thospel)

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Ah, yes. I spent many a useful hour in college at The Irish Lion learning how to drink yards. We used to play a game called First and Ten: take as many yards as you can. The best part is watching neophytes; at a certain point, and the experienced yard-drinker knows what I'm talking about, the neophyte will have the glass tipped WAAAaaaay too high, there will be a loud GLUG, and the neophyte's eyes will enlarge to the size of ashtrays as a tsunami of Harp rushes towards them.

It's a shame, really; what a waste of Harp to have it splash all over the clothes of neophyte.

--
tbone1, YAPS (Yet Another Perl Schlub)
And remember, if he succeeds, so what.
- Chick McGee

I spent many a useful hour in college at The Irish Lion learning how to drink yards.

Ah, you were far wiser than I. My (unsuccessful, but fun) yard experiences were on my own time, working on a contract in London. Where was the Irish Lion?

the neophyte will have the glass tipped WAAAaaaay too high,

Oh, no...

there will be a loud GLUG,

Please, no...

and the neophyte's eyes will enlarge to the size of ashtrays as a tsunami of Harp rushes towards them.

It was Guiness for me, and you must have been watching. I did say "unsuccessful, but fun". 8-)

The cynic's answer: The glass is half empty, but it's probably better that way.

...designed with too much capacity & is therefore inefficient....

...itself a liquid, though moving really really slowly...

...laced with iocane powder....

Good thing you "...spent the last few years building up an immunity to iocane powder."


tubaandy

I would say about the same.

But anyhow, I still don't like wine. So we could trown them away and get that 2l of Pepsi instead!

I'm a realist... the glass is BOTH half empty and half-full.

So was Dr. Richard Feynman. He might have expressed it as the sum over all possibilities.



Wait! This isn't a Parachute, this is a Backpack!

Wow! Thanks for the complement! I only wish!

The fluid level in the glass is far less important than the fluid level in the bottle of Jack Daniel's Old Number 7 self-serve psychotherapy elixir.

You remind me of the "acknowledgements" of the Scsh Reference Manual. To quote:

Read more... (2 kB)

(emphasis added by me!)

... a real pane.

Half, either way?

FLOG THE WAITSTAFF!

We can't have that kind of inattentive service around here!

Klein bottles have no beer inside, so what's the point in buying one?

emc

Any New York City or Connecticut area jobs? I'm currently unemployed.

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

—Herman Melville

It could be a Klein Stein :-) I might just have to order one of those.

My eyesight is going. I thought you were going to poorly tip the water.
Which would, naturally, leave the glass less than half full...

It's not a glass, it's a spoon - and there is no spoon.

So by logic there's no glass? Take the bottle... ;-)

--shmem

My spoon is TOO big!

I am a BANANA!

C(qw/74 97 104 112/);sub C{while(@_){$c**=$C;print
(map{chr($C!=$c?shift:pop)}$_),$C+=@_%2!=1?1:0}}
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broken. period.

broken. period.

Nope. It was a bug. It has been fixed. Updated your glass to the latest release off CPAN.

Yes. The glass is!

Water? Dihydrogen monoxide. :)

C(qw/74 97 104 112/);sub C{while(@_){$c**=$C;print
(map{chr($C!=$c?shift:pop)}$_),$C+=@_%2!=1?1:0}}
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That's right. I used to be decent at chemistry :-)

SIncerely,
The Project Management Team

but the depends will be...gj

The glass is simply too big. Find a smaller one that doesn't waste space.

The glass is simply too big. Find a smaller one that doesn't waste space.

You're wrong too. If you don't have space, have you considered moving to Texas?

... twice as big as necessary... what a waste...

This poll would suggest the Perl community is turning into an AA breeding ground... That's what staring at code all day does to ya! Let this be a warning! :)

.. or maybe just a word... containing other words...

..as a lass with gas and a sag in her ass and handful of slag, who tends to lag...

An "upper base" ?? Somebody is going to have to explain that to me.

Well, geometrically it does perfect sense. It's part of the lexicon, I'd say. But if you like, the buzzword is oxymoron, which of course is not an oxygenated moron.

Is it like an "internal exoskeleton"

Oh, well hypothetically an organism could have an "internal exoskeleton", were it covered with further soft tissues... but... wait... we should call it "mesoskeleton" then... what a headache... what was the Perl question anyway?!? :-)

...useless: there's too little space to pour something in, for one, and then look! it has a big hole at the bottom!

shmem, that was not the glass! How many have you already drunk thus far?!?

Of them? well, one... standing on me head and using my levitational skills to force antigravitation upon my feyvruit bevverache ... too much dissipline needed... way too much... *hick* ;-)

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    / /¯-`¯\(Q|-| <-- glass
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___|m|_WW__________________

--shmem

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