A. Sinan Unur

• Website: www.nu42.com/
• About: Economist & Developer

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• Commented on Perl 5 Porters Mailing List Summary: May 10th-18th
  Just FYI. Please note that in H. Merijn Brand (Tux) reports he benchmarked Perl 5.24.0 Tux is referring to my blog post where I report on asking Isaac to update Perl's rankings on the Benchmarks Game using perl 5.24.0 which...
• Commented on Huh. Multiple beginning-of-line anchors work
  We are in agreement. Just note that any programming language has a bazillion details. No one can remember everything, and the subsets people can constantly keep in their heads vary across time and people. It so happens that I frequently...
• Commented on Huh. Multiple beginning-of-line anchors work
  I messed up the pattern in my example (too early here), but the point still holds: my @matches = $string =~ m/ ^This\ is\ a\ (\S+) /xmg; will print Matches are cat dog bird as opposed to brian's example which...
• Commented on Huh. Multiple beginning-of-line anchors work
  I don't think you understand what brian is demonstrating is not obvious based on just what the documentation you quoted says. Most people do not automatically think of using multiple ^ anchors to match subsequent lines. The ^ and $...
• Commented on Why I'm considering dropping Perlmonks
  @SawyerX I'd like to get a few glasses of your favorite beverage just to thank for Dancer which I seriously love. We can also talk about this topic. But, now that I explained myself one more time, I am going...
• Commented on Why I'm considering dropping Perlmonks
  First, let me please emphasize the following: I don't think that cartoon should have been posted, I think it was right to point out it was inappropriate, and I fully support any effort towards making on-line and face-to-face interactions among...
• Posted Crypt-SSLeay 0.60 to Sinan Unur

  I just uploaded to Crypt-SSLeay 0.60 to PAUSE to address RT #77167 and CPAN testers failures with the previously released version. The former was due to the fact that SSL v2 is…

• Commented on How do you update your system Perl?
  Use ArchLinux on my laptop and on my Linode. I let pacman manage and update my system perl as it sees fit. In addition, I have added a few optional packages such as CGI::Simple via pacman. Otherwise, I keep my...
• Commented on Automating On Call Jury Instructions
  More ranting: The best part is the following gem in the source: <a href="http://bobby.watchfire.com/" title="Bobby's Home Page"></a> JavaScript required and Bobby (via Archive.org)!...
• Commented on Automating On Call Jury Instructions
  The following is a rant: Here's the thing that really, really bugs me: Somewhere there is some government IT guy sitting, building retirement funds putting together web pages like this. Looking at the page, I see: <noscript> Javascript is disabled....
• Commented on I was called "fucking asshole"
  Regardless of the actions of the author, I feel you could have a chosen a different way of advertising the behavior than polluting a whole bunch of feeds with really inappropriate language. Make no mistake, I do not condone any...
• Commented on Should I buy that Perl book?
  I love when you combine your economic insight with your experience as a programmer and perspective as an author. I am just going to blab a little below because I like the topic so much. Hope you don't mind. ---...
• Commented on Alien::Base is almost ready
  Well, I have been pondering if I should put together Alien::OpenSSL and it looks like your work will make that much simpler. So, I’ll definitely try it....
• Commented on Perl101: finding words in words
  This is somewhat related to an interesting problem from Stackoverflow which I blogged about. Do you have any suggestions for that problem?...
• Commented on Next steps for Crypt-SSLeay
  @Ovid Well, that helps me a lot given how much I stutter when I try to pronounce Crypt-SSLeay. Or, does it? ;-)...
• Posted Next steps for Crypt-SSLeay to Sinan Unur

  My primary goal for the 0.58 release was to understand and fix as much as I could without breaking anything. Occasionally, that meant leaving certain blocks of code in place in Makefile.PL even when I was not too sure it was necessary to do so. I did try to…

• Posted Crypt-SSLeay 0.58 to Sinan Unur

  Earlier today, I uploaded Crypt-SSLeay to CPAN with much trepidation.

  I am hoping that the module is in no worse shape today than when I joined the project as a…

Comment Threads

• Nei commented on How do you update your system Perl?

  the perl package in openSUSE is named "perl". It is installed by default. perl-doc is suggested by perl and can be installed separately. You can check version using the package manager, or you can check the package website. security updates are provided via patches. HTH

• Sawyer X commented on Why I'm considering dropping Perlmonks

  I can speak volumes about this topic (and perhaps next time we'll be at the same conference, we should), but meanwhile I'll simply say: you were right about what Schwern did (most of it, at least) but he was right about it. The fact that you have an open mind (happy to hear you do!) doesn't mean you don't alienate others or necessarily notice it. My mother tongue isn't English either. Does that mean I don't alienate others, such as women? Hmm... no, it doesn't. I'm sorry this hurt your feelings, but that's simply how the world works sometimes. We don't always notice damage we do, and…

• Sawyer X commented on Why I'm considering dropping Perlmonks

  I hope we could meet at the next YAPC and I could buy you a drink as well for your contributions to Perl (and to YAPCs!) next time. :)

• https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawmEFmsULh5l4dO4ek5K2NQ-8wcJG99nGOA commented on Huh. Multiple beginning-of-line anchors work

  > I don't think you understand what brian is demonstrating is not obvious based on just what the documentation you quoted says. Most people do not automatically think of using multiple ^ anchors to match subsequent lines.

  
  Sure, but it has exactly to do with what i quoted. People don't think in that way, because without the /m flag that is the case.

  Without /m the "^" means "beginning of string". And sure, if it means the beginning of the string you can't match multiple lines. It also makes no sense to use ^ twice in a regex because there never exists multiple "string-…

• Aristotle commented on Huh. Multiple beginning-of-line anchors work

  I would have been surprised if it didn’t work that way.