Re: "Tuits"

Stephen Dahmen (sdahmen@mhtc.net)
Sun, 28 Jun 1998 19:19:13 -0500 

It comes from the Americanism (or is it generic English?) "When I get around to it." Which means whenever I have enough time or motivation or the right combination of both.

I.e. a "round tuit".

In that context, you'll see that those comments from PP list will make sense. Actually, those phrases seem to be an extremely abstracted expression derived from that already abstract expression.  Hence layers of confusion. Very perl-like. 

Stephen


At 12:32 AM 6/29/98, Gisle Aas wrote:
>In the LWPng article for the Perl conference I used the word "tuits"
>in one place.  I found it suitable based on the usage I have seen on
>the perl5-porters list, but I can't really say I understand the word.
>Several of the reviewers also failed to understand it.  Could some
>kind soul please tell me something more about where this terminology
>comes from and what it really means?
>
>Regards,
>Gisle
>
>
>
>
>$ cd Mail/p5p
>$ egrep -wi -1 tuits\? *
>20284-I have been playing with pod2ps which is (I think) what is used
>20284:to generate it. When tuits permit I may be able to adopt it.
>20284-
>--
>20526-it, otherwise we could discuss this forever. The only question remaining
>20526:is who has the need and tuits to do this, I know I have not.
>20526-
>--
>20553-Udi reports that he's always wanted to add approximate matching to Perl,
>20553:but just never got enough tuits to hack the matcher.  (Insert random
>20553-disparagements about speed of spencerian matchers and comp.theory sins
>--
>20591-I need to study study anyway, to try and track down that odd failure I
>20591:had on the new backref tests. Whoosh - another tuit goes square.
>20591-
>--
>20836-
>20836:There goes another tuit.   And it's supposed to be a nice sunny weekend.
>20836-
>--
>20852-
>20852:When Charles gets that tuit shipment, I expect it'll get fixed, but until
>20852-then...
>--
>21112-P.S: The retrofit of the perl5 mods into the dist-3.0 mainstream is
>21112:currently on-hold and will stay that way due to a total lack of tuits.
>21112-If someone wishes to handle that *enormous* task, please speak up now.
>--
>21172-VMS. (Or any other non-unix system, I'd expect) mkfifo doesn't either,
>21172:though I suppose if a vast quantity of tuits show up some day it might.
>21172-
>--
>21283-expectations for Cray UNICOS (If I had a cartful of brigthly colored
>21283:tuits, I could find out why certain complex ops seem to "leak bits",
>21283-just in CRAY.  If.)
>--
>21339-copied code creating $@ (which also creats %@).  Later I discovered
>21339:it, but had no tuits to fix it.
>21339-
>--
>21436-ilya> copied code creating $@ (which also creats %@).  Later I discovered
>21436:ilya> it, but had no tuits to fix it.
>21436-
>--
>21492-    I hereby show more interest.  It'll probably be a long long
>21492:time before I have tuits to help with implementation, but I'm
>21492-always willing to test.
>--
>21695-
>21695:Anybody have tuits to play around with this?  I don't :-(
>21695-

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