draegtun

81 ms·

691.
Rakudo Star 2012.02 out – and the focus for 2012.03 (Perl6)(6guts.wordpress.com)
19 points by draegtun 15y ago|1 comments
692.
by draegtun 15y ago
Ditto for Perl. And with modern Perl(s) this can be switched on with new language features using... use 5.010; # or 5.012 or 5.014 and soon 5.016
693.
by draegtun 15y ago
Yes Ruby follows the Perl tradition of camelCase for Module::OrClassNames and instead using underscore in variable_names . Interesting Perl6 introduces option of hypenated $variable-names ala Lisp. Damian Conway gave this great commen
694.
by draegtun 15y ago
Bit like Black Perl written (supposedly!) by Larry Wall - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Perl Perlmonks has a list of Perl Poetry ( http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=Perl%20Poetry ). Also on Perlmonks there is a perl5 update of Black
695.
by draegtun 15y ago
> Most languages cannot serialize a closure, though. Lisp is pretty unique there Perl can also serialise closures using the Data::Dump::Streamer module - https://metacpan.org/module/Data::Dump::Streamer
696.
by draegtun 15y ago
From Perl 5.10 you can extend the RE engine. One example of this is Regexp::Grammars ( https://metacpan.org/module/Regexp::Grammars ) which implements a complete recursive descent parser.
697.
Proud to have published technical books that still deliver value after 20+ years(plus.google.com)
3 points by draegtun 15y ago|0 comments
698.
by draegtun 15y ago
Their certainly regarded as probably being one of the busiest Catalyst sites and they were employing Perl/Catalyst developers back in 2009: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=565152 NB: The HN article link hits an expired job post. He
699.
by draegtun 15y ago
> I have to add "my" to a variable to get reasonably-sane scoping, the default is that everything's global To be precise if strict is not enabled then any variable declared without a "my" becomes a package variable. With use strict
700.
by draegtun 15y ago
>> And of course this does not support installing Python, Ruby, Perl on any other software that has its own way of distributing software. > which is bullshit (although there's no Perl) Last time i looked Perl could be instal
701.
by draegtun 15y ago
PDL should be able to outperform every other vector language on the market Interesting comment from this thread on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/pkogh/perl_data...
702.
by draegtun 15y ago
re: Unfortunately Manfred Von Thun has stopped developing Joy and recommends using Factor - http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/concatenative/message/487...
703.
by draegtun 15y ago
Here is the announcement of this 2.4.10 release and also the PDL book from the mailing list: http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/pipermail/perldl/2012-Februar... Also here is the link to the PDL book (PDF): http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdl
704.
by draegtun 15y ago
Also see heroku-buildpack-perl: https://github.com/miyagawa/heroku-buildpack-perl This is a Heroku buildpack that runs any PSGI based web applications using Starman
705.
by draegtun 15y ago
In the Market Research industry (here) this is still pretty much the de-facto standard for sending digital data between agencies! This continues to remain unchanged by time because the leading Market Research tool [1] still prefers to use
706.
by draegtun 15y ago
>> All frameworks (ish) play nicely with Plack, which is a straight rip-off of Rack When developing PSGI/Plack, Miyagawa not only looked at Rack but also WSGI (Python) and also the proposed improvements to WSGI. ref: http://bulk
707.
by draegtun 15y ago
There is a list of web frameworks on the Perl5 wiki: http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/web_frameworks However it needs a little updating because both Dancer & Mojolicious would now come under the Popular Frameworks . Also see P
708.
by draegtun 15y ago
>> ... recall playing with punch cards in the 1960s ... And I recall still using/seeing them in the early 1980s here in UK! They were still heavily used at that time in the Market Research industry for recording data entry (of sur
709.
闇のEメール伝説 (Email Hates the Living) [Video YAPC::Asia 2011](youtube.com)
1 points by draegtun 15y ago|0 comments
710.
by draegtun 15y ago
And for just email address checking then even better IMHO is: use Email::Valid; if (Email::Valid->address('john.smith@gmail.com')) { print "E-mail is valid\n"; } else { print "Email is invalid\n" } ref: https://metacp
711.
London Perl Workshop 2011 Survey Results(yapc-surveys.org)
2 points by draegtun 15y ago|0 comments
712.
by draegtun 15y ago
!!! Supplementary for future readers of this comment thread !!! The pragma autodie also spots this problem! So.... use strict; use warnings; use autodie; our $config; $config->{file_paht} = "somefile"; open
713.
by draegtun 15y ago
Previous HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3215210
714.
by draegtun 15y ago
re: Path::Class - Each to their own :) However you can take your original full example of this: open (my $fh, "<", $config->{file_path}) or die "can't open $config->{file_path}: $!"; my $data; { local $/ = un
715.
by draegtun 15y ago
Me to, especially as it covers both problems you've given in the post. Now I just need to get into the habit of using Hash::Util::lock_keys more often myself :)
716.
by draegtun 15y ago
Another solution could be to lock the keys of $config after its been configured : use Hash::Util 'lock_keys'; our $config; $config->{file_paht} = "/opt/app/data_file"; lock_keys( %$config ); Now any attempt to use an unde
717.
by draegtun 15y ago
re: open() creating temporary file if file arg is undef Fortunately both IO::File (core module) & Path::Class don't do this: use IO::File; my $fh = IO::File->new( $config->{file_path}, 'r' ) or die "can't o
718.
Rakudo Star 2012.01 released (Perl 6 - New Object Model branch)(rakudo.org)
3 points by draegtun 15y ago|0 comments
719.
by draegtun 15y ago
I believe the original plan was that you could run perl5 & perl6 together like so... use v6; .say for 1..10; { use v5; say for 1..10; } # back to perl6 That might (still) be a pipedream however o
720.
by draegtun 15y ago
It's great to know something good came out of that discussion despite the silly trolling that blemished parts of it.

More ›