Re: How scalars work (about numbers, text strings, and binary strings)

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Nice work.

Now, back to the discussion of the technicalities of the diagram :-)

What program did you use to draw it? I've just discovered emacs artist mode a few weeks ago and it's quite nice, but it appears to only do basic ASCII drawings.

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Re^2: How scalars work (about numbers, text strings, and binary strings) by Juerd (Abbot) on Oct 19, 2007 at 21:38 UTC
What program did you use to draw it? Vim, with the help of The Unicode Sliderule, and copy/pasting. I used the same thing, plus regexes, to change the thick lines to thin lines. I first modelled it on paper, then in Inkscape. It started out as a rather complex diagram, but the end result is, as you can see, quite simple and comprehensible. Update: your post inspired me to look for tools that can help, and I found this nifty Vim script: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=173 Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap', perl6_server => 'feather' }	[reply]

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Re^2: How scalars work (about numbers, text strings, and binary strings)
by Juerd (Abbot) on Oct 19, 2007 at 21:38 UTC

What program did you use to draw it?

Vim, with the help of The Unicode Sliderule, and copy/pasting. I used the same thing, plus regexes, to change the thick lines to thin lines.

I first modelled it on paper, then in Inkscape. It started out as a rather complex diagram, but the end result is, as you can see, quite simple and comprehensible.

Update: your post inspired me to look for tools that can help, and I found this nifty Vim script: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=173

Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap', perl6_server => 'feather' }

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