Editor’s note: this document is out of date and remains here for historic interest. See Synopsis 3 for the current design information. Diamond lives (context-aware); Underscore space means concatenate; fat comma means pair; A pre-star will flatten; colon-equals will…
Editor’s Note: this Apocalypse is out of date and remains here for historic reasons. See Synopsis 03 for the latest information. Table of Contents RFC 025: Operators: Multiway comparisons RFC 320: Allow grouping of -X file tests…
Introduction Symmetric cryptography allows Alice to exchange secret messages with Bob over the network, but only after they have shared a secret key. If Alice and Bob don’t live within commutable distance, or are unable to meet in person…
Last week, the first public version of Parrot was released. This week, we’re going to take a close look at what Parrot is, how you can get hold of it and play with it, and what we intend for…
wxPerl? If you don’t just use Perl for creating CGI scripts, you’ll probably have to create some kind of front-end for your applications sooner or later. You might use the Curses library, but if you want a nice GUI, you…
Notes This Week in Perl 6 News %MY:: Goodness Prototypes Documents Released Math Functions To Add Parroty Bits You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending an empty message to perl6-digest-subscribe@netthink.co.uk….
Introduction In my experience, hashes are just about the most useful built-in datatype that Perl has. They are useful for so many things - from simple lookup tables to complex data structures. And, of course, most Perl Objects have…
Notes This Week on P5P Testing, testing Coderef-in-@INC Default random seed local chdir() File::Spec Smoking! Various Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the current year and month. Changes and…
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Notes This Week in Perl 6 News Closures Method Signatures Foo::$bar Perl 6 Internals (Yes, There Are Some…) More Modules Last Words You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending…
Introduction Go on, admit it: You’ve written a templating system. It’s OK, nearly everyone has at some point. You start with something beautifully simple like $HTML =~ s/$(\w+)/${$1}/g and end up adding conditionals, loops and includes until you’ve created…
Notes You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending an empty message to perl6-digest-subscribe@netthink.co.uk. Please send corrections and additions to bwarnock@capita.com. There were 44 messages across 10 threads, with 26 authors contributing. The Modules Plan (21…
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Last year Europe had its first Yet Another Perl Conference. Leon Brocard, Jon Peterson and Greg McCarroll did a marvellous job organizing this grassroots conference - themed “The Art of Perl” - from scratch within two months. For the…
Notes This Week in Perl 6 Notes Damian’s Perl 6 Talk, Take Two Opcode Dispatching Modules given (Properties) { when: Proper } Eval/o’s Vs. Evil Woes PDDs Released You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending…
Notes Table of Contents The Perl Conference 5.0 The Perl 5 Porters Meeting The State Of The Onion The P 6 Q & A Sarathy Speaks The Opcode BOF The Mailing Lists You can subscribe to an email version of…
There Is More Than One World (In Which) To Do It With the possible exception of many physicists, quantum mechanics is one of the stranger things to have emerged from science over the last hundred years. It has led…
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