Clayton Scott

• About: Me? I blog about Perl.

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• Commented on #riba2016 ends - now what?
  Perhaps you can convince a patron https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10819961...
• Commented on Perl::QA Hackathon in Lyon - Summary
  Hi Ovid, Just a quick note for your "Zen of Test Suites" particularly this bit: https://github.com/Ovid/zen-of-test-suites#much-of-the-testing-code-is-duplicated I've found that putting repetitive and declarative test data into arrays makes it easier to figure out which of the items failed its tests....
• Commented on Another reason I love Perl ;-)
  This is only news because two boys at the other end of Canada were killed by a python while they were at a sleepover http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2013/08/05/f-snake-python-sales-ownership-risks.html...
• Commented on What should be core in Perl 5.16?
  Ctypes! There are a large number of tools I'd like to use that have C client libraries and since my C is weak and my XS is weaker having ctypes in core would be quite awesome. http://gitorious.org/perl-ctypes/perl-ctypes But I would...

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• educated_foo commented on What should be core in Perl 5.16?

  Ctypes is great in that it doesn't need a compiler, but using mutant pack codes for function prototypes seems like a bad idea. I would rather see something that parsed (a subset of) C function prototypes. Even more awesome would be something that demangled and parsed C++ function names to get the prototypes automatically.

• David commented on Another reason I love Perl ;-)

  Hello Peter, this is the best way I think I can reach you ... anyway, love your book "Perl Fundamental"!

  In the book you mentioned you use a web module to auto daily banking. I wonder which module you use? I like to do similar for myself ...

  Hope to hear from you! Best regards,

  David
  govelogo@gmail.com

• David commented on Another reason I love Perl ;-)

  Hello Peter, this is the best way I think I can reach you ... anyway, love your book "Perl Fundamental"!

  In the book you mentioned you use a web module to auto daily banking. I wonder which module you use? I like to do similar for myself ...

  Hope to hear from you! Best regards,

  David
  govelogo@gmail.com

• David commented on Another reason I love Perl ;-)

  Never mind. I found it the clips in the video. Thanks!

• Ovid commented on Perl::QA Hackathon in Lyon - Summary

  Clayton: that's a good point. I have two choices now. I can apply that change, or you can clone the repo and submit a patch. I'd prefer the latter because I'd love to have other people add their insights.