Notes Self-tying is broken Virtual values Why is unshift slow? More Perl hacking guidelines Integer and floating-point handling printf %v format bug fixed Jarkko impersonates me Various Notes First, the meta-news this week is that you have a new…
Everyone who has read the Camel Book knows that the three great virtues of programming are laziness, impatience and hubris. Most of the columns that appear here at www.perl.com have to do, in one way or another, with either…
YAPC::Europe::London -> This is written for those poor souls who couldn’t make it to give them aflavor of the wonderful event they missed. Despite being an ex-Londoner, I got on the wrong tube Friday morning. The train was packed and…
Table of Contents Announcements and Overviews Internals Language perl6-language-data perl6-language-datetime perl6-language-errors perl6-language-flow perl6-language-io perl6-language-mlc perl6-language-objects perl6-language-regex perl6-language-strict perl6-language-subs perl6-language-unlink Miscellaneous Larry said at the Perl conference this summer that the old model of Perl development was not working well…
Dr. Damian Conway is best known in the United States for authoring Object Oriented Perl, published by Manning. His lectures at Perl conferences are becoming legendary and are a joy for Perl hackers of all levels. I managed to…
Were do I begin? Like Willy Wonka said, “..the beginning is a very good place to start…” So let’s start with my journey to the conference. Day 0: July 15, 2000 My flight to San Jose wasn’t delayed too…
“The Effort to Write Perl 6 Has Begin In Earnest” Before Stuck How? Tuesday What About Perl 6? Questions Will Perl 6 be in C++? When can we expect the grand plan? Will Perl 6 have a spec? Will…
There are a huge number of books out there about Perl. A quick search on Amazon reveals 362 books; allowing for false positives and books where Perl is a minor part, I’d conservatively estimate there to be over 250 books…
Lightning Reports from YAPC -> Reports from: Schuyler D. Erle Avi Gene Boggs: Day 2 Sean M. Burke Uri Guttman Brad Murray Lisa Nyman: Report from a First-time Presenter Clinton Pierce Nathan Torkington Adam Turoff Mark-Jason Dominus Last month Yet…
Notes NEW! RDF Available Bug Database buildtoc use namespace Unicode Input Solution tr/a-z-0// Mutual use sprintf tests Complex Expressions in Formats Threading Failure Test Case What does changing PL_sh_path do? UNTIE Method Sarathy Fixes a Bug that Nobody Knew…
Notes More Unicode Unicode Handling HOWTO Unicode Regex Matching I18N FAQ Normalization Simon Stops Working on Unicode Speeding up method lookups my PACKAGE $foo cfgperl Missing Methods Signals on Windows New File::Spec Another depressing regex engine bug s/// Appears…
Notes Method Lookup Speedup tr///CU and tr///UC Removed is_utf8_string Byte-Order Marks Return pack(“U”) Lexical variables and eval() FILEGV perlhacktut perlutil.pod Missing Methods Suppress prototype mismatch warnings Autoloaded Constants not Inlined lib.pm use English Numeric opens in IPC::Open3 Regex Bug…
Unprogramming Computing the remainder Splitting the Input Into Chunks Assembling the Result Red Flags Eliminate synthetic code Beware of special cases in loops Don’t apply string operations to numbers Unprogramming A few weeks ago I got mail from Bruce,…
Notes Method Call Speedups More Attempts to Make B::Bytecode Faster Byte-Order Marks Continue Slurp Bug EPOC Port README.hpux Paths in MacPerl Non-destructed anonymous functions Extensions required for regression tests Eudora Problem crypt docs Magic Auto-Decrement Various Notes You can…
Adventures on Perl Whirl 2000 -> Can a tech conference on a luxury cruise boat possibly be legitimate? Sure it is, and then some. This past Memorial Day, I joined about 200 attendees on Perl Whirl 2000, the inaugural Geek…
Notes Byte-Order Marks Magic Auto-Decrement Bug Reports Core Dump I Core Dump II Exit status obliterated by system() after exit()-> Class::Struct objects misbehave with ->isa() Data::Dumper Weirdness Blessed coderefs never DESTROYed Code compiled incorrectly MacPerl Test Suite Patches Why…
An Interview with HP’s Larry Rosler Larry Rosler was both editor of the draft standard and chairman of the Language Subcommittee for X3J11. He helped put ‘ANSI’ in front of C. He is also just another Perl hacker. Larry…
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