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• Commented on A perl of your own
  Never heard of "use true". Thx. The idea looks interesting. To nitpick: there are a lot of (potentially well written) admin/devops-code there that does not have a proper cpan project structure. It may be bad, but it's certainly a real...
• Commented on A perl of your own
  Funny on how the comment system ate my java generic example :) Imagine a "String, String" with less and more than on both sides of the statement :)...
• Commented on A perl of your own
  Matt, 1. Do you plan to add support for boilerplate besides "use"? E.g. the "1" at the end of all pm files and "__PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable;" as often the sane default in Moose? 2. I understand and applaud your effort to sidestep...
• Commented on Names and Numbers, Brand and Identity
  Pumpkin Perl won't solve the problems Stevan want to fix. But more importantly, Pumpkin Perl won't be an obstacle to the solution he's prototypinh *and* it will give Perl 5 the growing space it needs until Moe or whatever revision...
• Commented on Perl 7 - Final Thoughts
  One one hand, I perfectly understand the problem of Perl being stuck without a numerical version update for ever: being stuck on 5 whatever advancements the language has made. On the other, I also perfectly understand that going straight from...
• Commented on A perl devops mailing list
  I had never rexify before this post. Thanks. I am sure a mailing-list and/or a blog-planet about perl devops could potentially interest many people. C....
• Commented on First Post
  With all you've been up to, it surely sounds like a teaser :) Keep up the good work, Liz. Claudio...
• Commented on Solaris build problems... help?
  Hi Reini, Alberto, I am the bugreporter of the Solaris Perl build problems: https://rt.perl.org/rt3//Public/Bug/Display.html?id=91678 I am setting up a Solaris Perl testing farms thanks to the nice people of OpenCSW. Because of lack of time I haven't touched it in...
• Commented on Perl 5.12.4-RC1 is now available
  It builds and tests just fine on Solaris 10 (64-bit, threaded). After the broken 5.14.0 release on Solaris (http://rt.perl.org/rt3//Public/Bug/Display.html?id=91678) I plan to more rc testing :). C....
• Commented on Programming Perl, 4th Edition in time for holiday gifting
  Well, you can pre-order it now: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004927/ And: "The 4th edition has been thoroughly updated for version 5.14, with details on regular expressions, support for UNICODE, threads, and many other features." C....
• Commented on Programming Perl, 4th Edition in time for holiday gifting
  Well, you can pre-order it now: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004927/ And: "The 4th edition has been thoroughly updated for version 5.14, with details on regular expressions, support for UNICODE, threads, and many other features." C....
• Commented on Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
  OO in core (Moose or something similar instead of boilerplate). Better threading. Better deployment tools (compiler, native jar-like packaging, etc). pp is too slow on Solaris. Runner up: - Exceptions...
• Commented on What should be core in Perl 5.16?
  For core, I think we should really concentrate on the stuff that is hurting Perl: - OO. The boilerplate and the verbosity needed to write OO with bless feels not really Perl. => Moose. - Exception handling. => Try::Tiny -...
• Commented on Introduction to wirting readable and maintainable Perl
  Alex, no problem. Use the picture....
• Commented on Introduction to wirting readable and maintainable Perl
  I haven't yet published my FOSDEM report and pictures, but here you are: http://nxadm.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/dsc_7937.jpg :)...
• Commented on Introduction to wirting readable and maintainable Perl
  I was at your talk and it was very good. I enjoyed it. I even asked you a pesky question :). C....
• Commented on ARM
  Hi acme, The music player in my living room has an ARM cpu, runs GNU/Linux and the main functionality of the box is based on a fairly recent Perl (5.10). How cool is that? I blogged last month about it:...
• Commented on What are your environment settings for Unicode?
  I don't remember setting up anything on Ubuntu 10.10 (and a lot of previous releases). It works out of the box: claudio@adelaide:/etc$ env |grep ^L[CAE] LANG=en_US.utf8 LESSOPEN=| /usr/bin/lesspipe %s LESSCLOSE=/usr/bin/lesspipe %s %s...
• Commented on Lichtkind: 2010 / 2011
  A WxPerl book would be really fantastic!...
• Commented on What non-Perl books do you recommend to Perlers?
  Something about design pattern is always useful. "Design patterns : elements of reusable object-oriented software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides" People from a java background seems to like "Head First Design Patterns" by Eric T...

Comment Threads

• Matt S Trout (mst) commented on Names and Numbers, Brand and Identity

  Mike, I was the one who originally popularised 'perl5 is a velociraptor' - my YAPC::* closing keynotes summarising the state of the perl5 community are known as 'State of the Velociraptor'.

  However, I think the raptor meme belongs to the perl5+CPAN platform rather than to perl5 the language itself, so I chose not to try and force it onto the language.

• CosmicNet commented on Perl 7 - Final Thoughts

  Lets just rename it to Peril, then go on rapid release cycle like FireFox. Then we can have a new major release every couple of months, and all the huge benefits that have come with that: https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar

  Of course, I'm joking.

  I can't help the feeling that if the effort from all these years of Perl 5/Perl 6 attrition, had been directed into Perl 6 as they naturally should have been, it would have been ready some time ago. Instead the dog chooses to keep chewing on it's own leg.

• awwaiid (Brock Wilcox) commented on A perl of your own

  Hmm. I'll have to look to see if I can use that to improve my 'everywhere' module. It is a pretty similar concept, except that 'everywhere' is designed to be used in your top-level wrapper script on a per-application basis.

• Matt S Trout (mst) commented on A perl of your own

  nxadm, 'use true;' gets rid of the 1; and MooseX::AutoImmute demonstrates a solution for ->meta->make_immutable (in Moo, immutability happens automatically on first ->new).

  What I'm looking at here is a way to evolve a set of defaults without needing to understand any of the cleverer approaches - in my case, I think I'd rather have it imply 'use MyApp::Defaults;' or similar and centralize everything there with Syntaxt::Collector or sanity.pm or whatever - but I figured first I'd do the simplest thing that could possibly work and experiment.

  I've got a pull request outstanding…

• Matt S Trout (mst) commented on A perl of your own

  nxadm, I think those people are as served as they're going to get by the capacity to have single-line feature bundles.

  Getting from 'one line' to 'no lines' requires a trade-off - in this case 'run this using the myperl script, or apply myperl-rewrite to it'. Doc patches making this clearer would be welcome, but you can't have 'no lines' and 'your old code still works', and I somehow doubt nagios would be amazingly impressed if we broke half the existing plugins to make it easier to write new ones :)