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…
Notes This Week on P5P Subroutine Prototypes -Wall fixes The Great SDK Debate New Stuff! Various Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the current year and month. Changes and additions…
We continue our series on the People Behind Perl by interviewing Artur Bergman. Artur is a recent addition to the legion of Perl developers, but he’s already making extremely big waves. Artur picked up the gauntlet of the new…
Notes This Week on P5P Hash “clamping” P5P Meeting Asynchronous Callbacks h2ph iThreads Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the current year and month. Changes and additions to the perl5-porters biographies…
Larry’s State of the Onion presentation this year was, as every year, completely different from previous years. As he noted, previous talks have been about chemistry, theology, biology, and music; this year, for once, Larry actually talked about Perl….
Let’s face it. procmail is horrid. But for most of us, it’s the only sensible way to handle mail filtering. I used to tolerate procmail, with its grotesque syntax and its less-than-helpful error messages, because it was the only…
Notes This Week on P5P 5.7.2 is out! Many threading fixes package; SUPER:: debate rages on Various Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the current year and month. Changes and additions…
Having purchased the $250 cookie recipe from Neiman-Marcus, Alice wants to send it to Bob, but keep it away from Eve, who snoops on everyone’s network traffic from the cubicle down the hall. How can Perl help her? Ciphers…
Notes This Week on P5P No 5.8.0 Yet New Modules Numbers, numbers, numbers PerlIO considered evil Asynchronous Callbacks Various Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the current year and month….
So you use Perl, and you probably know that it was brought to you by “Larry Wall and a cast of thousands”. But do you know these people that make up the Perl development team? Every month, we’re going…
This Week Perl Doesn’t Suck Multiple Classifications Once Inherited, Twice Shy Class::Object The Internal String API Miscellany Last Words 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…
Notes This week on P5P Notes Module Versioning and Testing Carpentry Regex Capture-to-variable Perl on S390 UTS Amdahl Various Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the current year and…
This week on perl5-porters (18 June-25 June 2001) Notes You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending an empty message to perl5-porters-digest-subscribe@netthink.co.uk. Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the current year and…
A year ago, at Yet Another Perl Conference North America 19100, both Perl-the-language and Perl-the-community seemed to be headed for trouble. Longtime Perl hackers spoke openly with concern at the apparent stagnation of Perl 5 development, and how the community…
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. The Perl 6 mailing lists saw 165 messages across 20 threads, with 31 authors…
Notes Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the current year and month. Changes and additions to the perl5-porters biographies are particularly welcome. This was a reasonably busy week, seeing just over 400 messages. Many thanks…
The Basics Parse::RecDescent is a combination compiler and interpreter. The language it uses can be thought of roughly as a macro language like CPP’s, but the macros take no parameters. This may seem limiting, but the technique is very…
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