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Following the release of 5.36.0, we have a new Perl Steering Council (PSC). The PSC for the next year comprises Ricardo Signes (RJBS), Paul Evans (PEVANS), and Philippe Bruhat (BOOK). These three will serve until 5.38.0 is released, at which point the next PSC will be elected.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. -- The Hobbit, iv, "Over Hill and Under Hill"

Recently on the p5p mailing list the topic of removing smart match re-surfaced. There was a fairly vigorous discussion about the effect this would have on CPAN. So I thought I would look into how many uses there actually were.

Fortunately there are Perl Critic policies for this: Jan Holčapek's Perl::Critic::Policy::ControlStructures::ProhibitSwitchStatements and Perl::Critic::Policy::Operators::ProhibitSmartmatch. All I had to do was run them against my mini-CPAN.

My results:

• Total distributions: 40704
• Distributions with violations: 842
• Files with violations: 1568

A look at the file names involved says that about two-thirds of the violations are in the published modules themselves, and the rest are in support code (directories t/, inc/, and the like).

It is possible that the results of Perl::Critic::Policy::ControlStructures::ProhibitSwitchStatements contain false positives simply because someone implemented subroutines named given() or when() unrelated to smart matching.

These are some answers to the Week 171 of the Perl Weekly Challenge organized by Mohammad S. Anwar.

Spoiler Alert: This weekly challenge deadline is due in a few of days from now (on July 3, 2022 at 23:59). This blog post offers some solutions to this challenge, please don’t read on if you intend to complete the challenge on your own.

Task 1: Abundant Numbers

Write a script to generate first 20 Abundant Odd Numbers.

According to wikipedia,

A number n for which the sum of divisors σ(n) > 2n, or, equivalently, the sum of proper divisors (or aliquot sum) s(n) > n.

For example, 945 is the first Abundant Odd Number.

Sum of divisors:
1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 9 + 15 + 21 + 27 + 35 + 45 + 63 + 105 + 135 + 189 + 315 = 975

I am trying to contact Francis van Dun (FVANDUN on cpan) for permission to relicense Net::DHCP to the MIT license.

The email listed on cpan bounces. If you are out there Francis please give me your blessing via the above link.

Please checkout my experience decoding hexdump.

https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/decode-hexdump

In the wake of my postings on the file access tests (-r and friends) I wondered if there was a Perl::Critic policy to find them. So I constructed an annotated index of Perl Critic policies. Because of its size I stuck it on GitHub rather than in-line to this blog post.

This index assumes that any CPAN module whose name begins with Perl::Critic::Policy:: is a Perl Critic Policy. The index entry for each module contains the name of the module itself (linked to Meta::CPAN), the name of the distribution which contains it, and the abstract for the module if it contains anything other than a repeat of the module name. I suppose the module description could have been added, but I hoped the abstract would be sufficient.

This operation gave me 341 policies. I did not find the policy I wanted among them. In fact, only Kevin Ryde's Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitFiletest_f came close.

For those who want context, the relevant blog posts are:

• The File Access Operators: To Use, or Not to Use
• Core Modules: filetest
• My Favorite Modules: File::stat

These are some answers to the Week 170 of the Perl Weekly Challenge organized by Mohammad S. Anwar.

Spoiler Alert: This weekly challenge deadline is due in a few of days from now (on June 26, 2022 at 23:59). This blog post offers some solutions to this challenge, please don’t read on if you intend to complete the challenge on your own.

Task 1: Primorial Numbers

Write a script to generate first 10 Primorial Numbers.

Primorial numbers are those formed by multiplying successive prime numbers.

For example,

P(0) = 1    (1)
P(1) = 2    (1x2)
P(2) = 6    (1x2×3)
P(3) = 30   (1x2×3×5)
P(4) = 210  (1x2×3×5×7)

There's been a lot of work on MooseX::Extended and now it comes with a fairly extensive tutorial.

The basics are pretty easy to learn, but it gives you a good amount of power. It also allows you to easily define custom versions so you can just slap use My::Custom::Moose; (or role) at the top or your code and it works just fine.

You can now disable just about any features in it you don't want. You can also include experimental features, such as multimethods (based on number of args) and async/await.

Check out the github repo if you'd like to contribute.

On Tuesday 21st June there will be a Perl IDE Hackathon in the Hackathon room at The Perl and Raku Conference. You can also participate in this event remotely.

Our goal is to enhance IDE and Editor support for Perl 5 which is typically via plugins, with an an emphasis on helping people make their first every contribution. It's not even required that you use the IDE/Editor that you are helping out with.

With support from their authors, I am hoping we can help make meaningful contributions to the following, :

- Jetbrains IDEA plugin
- Language Server's for VSCode etc. i.e. Perl Navigator, Perl::LanguageServer, PLS
- Vim plugin vim-perl
- Emacs
- Others!

Recall that IDE support is a priority for the community and we need your help!

If you are attending the Perl and Raku conference then simply turn up at the venue on the 21st with your Laptop and find the room! There will be wifi and we will work together with everyone in the slack channel.

Do you want to convert Perl source into .exe?

Please checkout my experience.

https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/strawberry-perl

As part of HalleLeipzig.pm I had my duties to co-organize the recent German Perl Workshop but also the opportunity to give some talks. (Recordings are online [EDIT] now at the CCC video platform). My main talk was about plotting data with Perl (english slides).

I'm looking for someone to take over as maintainer of these distributions. Some of these distributions contain relatively important modules, like Redis and IO-Socket-Timeout.

• Action-Retry
• Bloomd-Client
• Bot-BasicBot-Pluggable-Module-RT
• Dancer-Plugin-FlashMessage
• Dancer-Plugin-Params-Normalization
• Exception-Stringy
• IO-Socket-Timeout
• Log-Message-Structured-Stringify-AsSereal
• Moo-Lax
• POE-Wheel-GnuPG
• Params-Check-Faster
• PerlIO-via-Timeout
• Redis
• Riak-Client
• Sereal-Splitter

If you're interested by some or all of them, let me know!

Although they may be an anthema to many, there are many active Perl communities on Facebook. The primary ones I subscribe to are

Perl Programmers

The Perl Community

The Weekly Challenge

The Perl and Raku Conference

Perl Mongers

If you search for Perl groups, you'll find many, many more, including ones for individual Perl Mongers groups.

If someone wants to talk Perl, I don't care where it is - let's talk.

Cross-posted from my own blog: Replay/Debug/Test Cron Events With Cron::Sequencer.

This is my first post here and I hope it is more positive than a rant to the readers eyes...

It was 2017 when I had installed Jenkins locally in my notebook for a series of experiments. The notebook was running Ubuntu configured in Brazilian Portuguese and Jenkins automatically presented me with a translation to my native language. After 15 minutes trying, I changed Ubuntu settings to English and never went back.

It took me a while to jump into the project repository and start translating the missing parts, about four years... and the translation hasn't improved since.

You might be asking yourself what this has to do with Perl and why I'm blogging about it here... well, Jenkins project uses (at least) since 2010 a Perl script to help with the translation work.

MooseX::Extended is coming along well and is ready for testing. See Introducing MooseX::Extended for a decent introduction on how to make writing your Moose code safer and easier.

With Perl 5.36.0 just around the corner, we thought that this is a good time to clarify plans for the future of the Perl programming language. We realised that the future was hammered out in a number of steps, across several months. This meant that there hasn't been a single statement we could refer people to. This post is to fill that gap.

Hello everybody,

after a long time of waiting it is finally time - we cordially invite you
to the German Perl/Raku Workshop 2023.

Next year's workshop will take place from Monday 28 February to
Wednesday 1. March in the Saalbau Gallus in Frankfurt am Main.

In which we pine for The Good Place, while visiting The Bad Place.

I'm going to start this blog by writing a very simple guide on installing Perl using perlbrew.

To install Perl using perlbrew, first visit the website and grab its

curl -L https://install.perlbrew.pl | bash

Now you will have to run

perlbrew init

After that you will probably have to add it to your $PATH environment variable as the installation says after it is done downloading. This can be done with a command like

echo source ~/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bash >> ~/.bashrc

echo source ~/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bash >> ~/.zshrc

Once installed, you can see a list of different installable Perl versions by issuing the

perlbrew available