Could be changed to say Others studying at the Monastery: (23)? Without the preposition, the meaning is a little unclear, and implies that monks are checking out the walls, floors, stables ..

Alex / talexb / Toronto

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Re: Others studying the Monastery: (23)
by shmem (Chancellor) on Dec 02, 2008 at 14:47 UTC
    Look around! The walls, floors and furniture are all made of papyrus. Even the forks and spoons are scribbled with perl code and other rareties...
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      The forks are extra special; they are made out of finely woven threads.
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Re: Others studying the Monastery: (23)
by Herkum (Parson) on Dec 03, 2008 at 15:54 UTC

    OK, I will do the floors, but PLEASE don't ask me to clean Windows! I am only one man for gods sake! :)

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      As linux user i refuse to clean Windows too ;-)

      MH
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Re: Others studying the Monastery: (23)
by papidave (Pilgrim) on Jan 16, 2009 at 16:44 UTC
    You should definitely take some performance measurements before you commit to study $Monastery, because it doesn't always make things run faster.
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Re: Others studying the Monastery: (23)
by missingthepoint (Friar) on Jan 17, 2009 at 03:05 UTC

    Looking at the last two phrases ('musing the Monastery', 'rifling the Monastery'), I suspect that was added as a quick hack, like so:

    my @words = qw( studying musing rifling );
printf "Others %s the Monastery", $words[ int rand @words ];

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    ... so the code probably doesn't yet handle special cases. I don't know how hard it would be to add that, as I have ~300 XP until I'm eligible for pmdev. :)

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    or trying to write a masterpiece...
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      If your example were correct, wouldn't you simply do something like: 
      my @terms =('studying in', 'musing over', 'rifling through',
            'threading camels through a needle at' );
printf "Others %s the Monastery", $words[ int rand @words ];

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      and get the desired result? I'm going to guess that the terms must come from a whitespace-delimited (undisclosed) storage location that doesn't parse phrases properly. But then again, it's only a guess, and I could be entirely wrong...
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Re: Others studying the Monastery: (23)
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 02, 2008 at 15:02 UTC
    Could be made less special? NO! :p
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