Matthew Persico

• About: I was never in love with C or SQL like this...

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• Commented on The Quickest Way to Set Up HTTPS
  https://github.com/blogs-perl-org/blogs.perl.org/issues/410...
• Commented on berrybrew version 1.36 released!
  Talk to these folks: https://ww2.enlightenedperl.org/ EPO SPONSORS THE FOLLOWING PROJECTS Meta::Cpan – CPAN Testers – Strawberry Perl – The Perl Conference – London Perl Workshop – Perl @ FOSDEM...
• Commented on Perl Weekly Challenge 130: Odd Number and Binary Search Tree
  #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use feature qw/say/; my %histo; $histo{$_} ? delete $histo{$_} : $histo{$_}++ for (2, 5, 4, 4, 5, 5, 2); say join " ", keys %histo; Keeps less data around....
• Commented on My Favorite Warnings: <code>redundant</code> and <code>missing</code>
  Can we get a link to the first desultory entry? :-)...
• Commented on My Favorite Warnings: <code>redundant</code> and <code>missing</code>
  I had no idea that 'no' could take an 'if'. And I've been Perling since 1996....
• Commented on On the eve of CPAN Testers
  So where can I RTFM on how to set up a smoker?...
• Commented on How I Uploaded a CPAN Module
  Cross posted to https://www.facebook.com/groups/perlcommunity and https://www.facebook.com/groups/perlprogrammers . You may get more responses there....
• Commented on Tau Station considered Dangerous: Game Review
  Please, for the sake of the Community, re-post this review to someplace like dev.to or some subreddit that is NOT r/perl and then crosslink to THAT post like mad. That way we can get this to be seen outside the...
• Posted Perl Lists - a Partial Taxonomy to Matthew Persico

  
  Follow-up to Mark Gardner's article about Perl List:: modules.
  

• Commented on I found the truth about GameStop, Qanon, the Biden adminstration, and the British Royal Family
  I was about five seconds away from reporting spam to the admins. But I floated the link and saw it was a metalink to an ACME. :smh This is too funny....
• Posted System Setup for Modern Perl Projects to Matthew Persico

  From 2015, but it came across my screen this morning. Seems like it is still relevant.

  System setup for modern perl projects

• Commented on A private not official branch for Perl 7 by several members of perl porters
  If it's a private, not official branch, but mentioned in the mailing list, don't you think that's where it should have been left? Not everyone here is on the mailing list. Perhaps it is not ready for public consumption....
• Commented on Why I don't try the Perl Weekly Challenges
  Wait? You think that the point of these challenges is to make people feel they "are not smart enough"?...
• Commented on Why I don't try the Perl Weekly Challenges
  Lady Aleena, The latest challenge posted is, I believe, number 75. I believe all the challenges remain posted on line. Perhaps a good place to start would be at challenge #1. If I recall correctly (I am not solving the...
• Commented on Polling for fun and engagement
  Can you update with direct links? I didn't see these polls....
• Posted Perl Mongers, Unite! to Matthew Persico

  TL;DR:
  

  Detail:
  pm.org is gr…

• Commented on Coders In Cars Getting Chatty
  Excellent. As usual....
• Commented on New Perl project. Interactive Perl coding tasks to run in the browser
  But THANK YOU! Now I can stop using perl -e at the command line for short snippets that invarialbly become programming sessions!...
• Commented on New Perl project. Interactive Perl coding tasks to run in the browser
  Suggest this change: The solution that you have entered does not work as expected. See the PerlBanjo link above for errors....
• Posted Perl 5 is now on github to Matthew Persico

  Not sure if this has been posted on here on blogs...

  https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/10/msg256484.html

• Commented on Larry has approved renaming Perl 6 to raku
  Signatures must no longer be experimental "optional" though, should still be allowed, right? A solid OO system must become core "solid"? Define. I don't think so. I think you choose between Moose/Moo and Mouse, ship it in core and...
• Commented on Skipping DateTime::Format::Mail in the Pull Request Club
  Is that stated in the docs somewhere? If not, there's your PR....
• Commented on TIL - Object Method: Named Arguments Unpacking
  I always preferred my $self = shift; my %args = @_; because I usually do my $self = shift; my %args = ( param1 => "0", ## default value param2 => undef, ## documenting @_); so that I can set...
• Commented on Daily CPAN upload chain broke, again !!!
  Kobayahsi Maru: The game is to *prepare* an upload to CPAN each day. If the upload does not make it because of technical issues, that's irrelevant. :-)...
• Commented on Perl Blogs
  There was an attempt to redo this site, but it died. I THINK there was another proposal in the past few months, but I'd have to search for it....
• Commented on Which edges cases could perl shed to make it easier to parse?
  And isn't this what RPerl is trying do do, albeit approaching from the other direction, i.e.; removing stuff from an existing implementation as opposed to RPerl that's adding selected stuff to a new implementation?...
• Commented on Which edges cases could perl shed to make it easier to parse?
  The problem is you'll never remove all that stuff; too much prior art. The best you'll do implement another codepath without all that stuff, turned on with a pragma and now you'll have yet another codepath to maintain....
• Commented on Language::SIMPLE - The Portable Integrated Scripting System
  Wow. You've come a long way since the first version of GUIDeFATE. Sorry I wasn't able to use and beta it for you, but glad to see you've taken off with it!...
• Commented on Introducing: Perl 6 Marketing Assets Web App
  Damn. How do we do this for Perl5????...
• Commented on The Future of Perl 5
  Using all the stuff Damian showed off at TPC-DC 2017 or by actually adding to the core?...

Comment Threads

• Tom Wyant commented on My Favorite Warnings: <code>redundant</code> and <code>missing</code>

  First desultory entry: My Favorite Warnings: once.

• laurent_r commented on Perl Weekly Challenge 130: Odd Number and Binary Search Tree

  Yeah, right, it's another way of doing it. Not very significantly different, though. It may slightly improve performance for some data shapes.

• Aristotle commented on Perl Weekly Challenge 130: Odd Number and Binary Search Tree

  This does more allocations and deallocations, potentially many more, so it will be slower in a lot of cases – in most, I’d even say. The memory savings will only be significant if the list of integers is very large and the mean count of occurrences is very small – and even in that case it depends on the mean distance of occurrences being small, otherwise lots of keys will be kept around at any given time anyway.

• laurent_r commented on Perl Weekly Challenge 130: Odd Number and Binary Search Tree

  Yes, I basically agree with you. For many data shapes, Matthew Persico's solution will probably be slower. A benchmark would probably be necessary, but is not easy to do in the general case, because so much depends on the shape of the input data. And there is little interest in optimizing the code for such small input data sets.

• Oodler 577 commented on The Quickest Way to Set Up HTTPS

  I like your style. Note, perlmonks LIMITS you to 8 char passwords; and last time I checked truncates them without telling you. So not surprised here, I don't expect any privacy only anyway - do you? :-)