Enk1du

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by Enk1du 3y ago
There's some nice stuff in the new features and everybody has their favourites. Some like the subroutine signatures, but I'm a big fan of the hash slices and postfix dereferencing in v5.20. https://www.effectiveperlprog
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by Enk1du 3y ago
It's just a reference list for the people who know half the features already. If you want a readable list, try the Table of Contents in "Perl new features". https://leanpub.com/perl_new_features
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by Enk1du 3y ago
The very short format is useful for reminders of what is possible, flagging features that I'd skipped over when they first came out (iterating over multiple values at a time, i.e. a hash in a foreach loop). You need to go elsewhere to
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by Enk1du 3y ago
That makes Gaudí's Sagrada Família look timely in comparison. Started in 1882, the final, final completion date was set back to 2040 due to the pandemic (Covid was mentioned. I imagine 1919 may have also contributed) https:/&#x2F
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by Enk1du 3y ago
Nethack was promoted to me as a good way to learn how to cursor around in vi (hjkl keys) I always played the Tourist and managed to get all the way to Level 3 after I learned how to use the +3 Nikon effectively. Everyone knew who the ghost
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by Enk1du 3y ago
Funny that. In Farley Mowat's "Sibir" (1970), he reports a conversation with a Siberian Russian explaining the difference between the two superpowers like so "In the USSR, our propaganda is poor and we don't believe
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by Enk1du 4y ago
My news-savy neighbour's strategy was to combine several sources, Channel 4[0], Al Jazeera, <can't remember> and sheepishly, RT (this was mid-2000's). He rationalised the last one as not being a reliable source, but as
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by Enk1du 4y ago
Perhaps the Badger was looking at #2184 - "An old method to sling a gun or cannon", and not finding it very useful, having cleared out the last of the family cannons years ago. The criticisms are _somewhat_ valid. The monkey&#x2
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by Enk1du 5y ago
and Inuak is dual (in the Baffin Island dialect[0], if I extrapolate correctly - a little knowledge is a dangerous thing) for when you need to talk about 2 people, because why _wouldn't_ you need a dual case. Wonderful language. Wish