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Toby Inkster

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  • About: I'm tobyink on CPAN, IRC and PerlMonks.

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  • Commented on Introducing Marlin
    Yes, it's annoying. You can also view the article on my personal blog or on dev.to, both of which have nicer formatting....
  • Commented on Introducing Marlin
    In that particular comment, I'm referring to Mite, but yes, I'm also aware of your Class::Mite. I stole the idea of copying parent class methods into child classes from Class::Mite. (My testing shows it doesn't really make much of a...
  • Commented on Introducing Marlin
    Also, "Bee" could easily be confused with the Perl backend module "B"....
  • Commented on Introducing Marlin
    I chose Marlin because it starts with M, so fits in with Moose, Moo, Mouse, Mite, etc. Marlins are also among the fastest known fish....
  • Posted Introducing Marlin to Toby Inkster
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  • Commented on Create a static mirror of your DEV blog
    dev.to makes the other way around really easy. If you've got a blog on some other platform (I'm using Wordpress), you can five dev.to your RSS or Atom feed, and any new articles you publish on your blog will automatically...
  • Posted Type::Tiny 2.8.0 Released to Toby Inkster

    What's new?

  • The BoolLike type constraint accepts boolean.pm booleans.
  • Type::Params offers some improvements for DWI…
  • Commented on London Perl & Raku Workshop 2025 + 2024 Feedback
    I think it's clear here as well that most people are satisfied with the current setup. Most people who filled out the survey are satisfied with the current set up. People dissatisfied with the current set up likely didn't attend,...
  • Posted Matching simply to Toby Inkster

    A little over ten years ago, when Perl 5.18 was approaching its release date, I released match::simple. This was mostly in response to the smartmatch operator (~~) being deprecated, but…

  • Posted Increasing Perl’s Visibility, Redux to Toby Inkster

    Perl has had the CPAN and awesome websites like MetaCPAN …

  • Posted Experiments in Overloading to Toby Inkster

    A simple class:

      package Local::Overloaded {
    ="color…
  • Posted Introducing Exporter::Almighty to Toby Inkster

    Consider a simple module like this:

    use
  • Posted Using Type::Params Effectively to Toby Inkster

    One of the modules bundled with Type::Tiny is Type::Params, a module that allows you to validate subroutine signatures using type constraints. It's…

  • Posted Perl Testing in 2023 to Toby Inkster

    With my open source work, I've historically taken an approach which relies more on integration testing than unit testing, but with some of my newer projects, I've tried adopting principles from $paidwork and applying them to my free software.

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  • Posted Creating a Simple DSL in Perl to Toby Inkster 
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  • Posted Keeping Your Valuables Under Lock and Key to Toby Inkster

    Consider the following fairly simple class, which creates a lookup object for month names:

  • Posted SemVer but with Extra Steps to Toby Inkster

    This is a variant of SemVer which mostly meets all its rules, except for releases prior to 0.2.0, where we bend them slightly.

    It is my intention to use this versioning system for all open source software I develop from 1 January 2023 onwards. Existing ope…

  • Posted Type::Tiny v2 is Coming to Toby Inkster

    Eagle-eyed watchers of CPAN may have noticed that I've recently been releasing Type::Tiny development releases with version numbers 1.999_XYZ.

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  • Commented on RFC: new API for Type::Params
    That is perhaps the best option....
  • Commented on RFC: new API for Type::Params
    True. Or: use Type::Params -modern; My reason for suggesting a different module name is to also be able to simplify documentation for the end users, so the pod for the old stuff they don't need to worry about is away...
  • Posted RFC: new API for Type::Params to Toby Inkster

    Firstly, I'm not planning on breaking compatibility with Type::Params. The new API would live under a different namespace, such as Type::Params2.

    The API for Type::Params is currently:

    use feature 'state'…
  • Commented on Match Anything, Quickly
    Type::Tiny's grep method should be pretty fast to filter a list of strings in most cases. use Types::Standard -types; use Types::Common::String -types; # null filter: @filtered = Any->grep( @strings ); # filters which do things: @filtered = NonEmptyStr->grep( @strings );...
  • Commented on Mite: an OO compiler for Perl
    There's a ticket on the issue tracker for a Dist::Zilla plugin. I'm unlikely to implement it myself, but would certainly accept one....
  • Commented on Smart Match in CPAN
    If porting code to not use ~~, then match::smart provides a very similar matching function....
  • Posted Mite: an OO compiler for Perl to Toby Inkster
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  • Commented on A (not so) simple matter of privacy
    method $do_internal () { ...; } has been supported by Zydeco for over a year. documentation....
  • Commented on Addressing CPAN vulnerabilities related to checksums
    A while back, I started providing PGP/GPG signatures for all my CPAN and BackPAN releases here. Obviously, this doesn't help with people using the CPAN client to automatically download and install packages, but might be useful if anybody wants to...
  • Commented on Monthly Report - June
    CodersRank can be crazy. My score goes up and down quite dramatically for seemingly no reason. You're often ahead of me....
  • Commented on I failed to pause before blogging
    I think the indexer probably goes through line by line to avoid slurping in the whole file....
  • Commented on I found the truth about GameStop, Qanon, the Biden adminstration, and the British Royal Family
    Aliens from Mars killed Lee Harvey Oswald to hide the truth that eating Kraft instant mac and cheese boxes causes obesity. Lee Harvey Oswald found out because they were the source of all knowledge. Aliens from the moon know the...
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    • Scott Lanning commented on ()

      Thanks!

    • Dimitrios Kechagias commented on Create a static mirror of your DEV blog

      I also have a wordpress blog for my astronomy hobby. It's one of the most horrible POS software I've used. Managing it is needlessly tiring and publishing is a chore, I seem to be fighting with the UI to get my piece looking right. So my whole point is I LIKE posting on dev.to, I find it very functional, so I had already posted quite a few articles until I found out links to it are not accepted everywhere. I already use blogs.perl.org for Perl posts which appear on dev.to (with a perl.org canonical link), but for the rest of dev.to-only articles I…

    • Mohammad Sajid Anwar commented on Introducing Marlin

      Really cool implementation, thanks for sharing. You mentioned, "Mite", but which one?

    • markong commented on Introducing Marlin

      Just be aware that all the code sections are hard-cut after the 70 column limit at the right margin (no scrollbars).

      Anyway, nice and interesting work, with lots of potential !

    • markong commented on Introducing Marlin

      BTW, the rest of the code is there: one can copy and paste in an editor to see the missing parts.

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