Helmut Wollmersdorfer

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• Commented on What prevent warnings pragma become default feature?
  Nothing against it, because most code will use warnings. But sometimes it is necessary to turn it off, e.g. performance no warnings 'portable'...
• Commented on Try Travis CI with your CPAN distributions
  Thanks for your excellent series of CPANism HOWTOs. My workflow still provides this all, but is a lot easier. Using Dist::Milla by Miyagawa is the secret....
• Commented on Entering MooseX, XXIV Well Now Lets See
  Have a look at Dist::Milla by Miyagawa San....
• Commented on And Now for Something Not Moose Releated
  Crappy MT ... $count++ while(<$filehandle>)...
• Commented on And Now for Something Not Moose Releated
  @dolmen: Your code filters away filenames beginning with '.'. I tried $count++ while() against 'wc -l'. On a file with 3 mio. lines it's 0.466s versus 0.087s on a Mac Air, but on a small file with 6 lines it's...
• Commented on And Now for Something Not Moose Releated
  As a oneliner: $ perl -e 'print join("\t",(map{`wc -l $_`} grep{-f}map{chomp;$_}(`ls -1t`))[0]=~/(\S+)/g),"\n";' 6 title_12_1832.txt As script-snippet: my $dir = "."; my ($lines,$file) = ( map { `wc -l $_` } grep { -f "$dir/$_" } map { chomp; $_ }...
• Commented on WTF: $Test::Builder::Level is invalid
  Who is the someone using Test::Pretty? Ron, how are you starting your tests?...
• Commented on WTF: $Test::Builder::Level is invalid
  It's Test::Pretty with Test::Version in combination which is broken. This is reproducable....
• Commented on WTF: $Test::Builder::Level is invalid
  You already tried hard to locate or isolate the problem? What exactly are you doing? Test::Pretty also exists as App::Prove::Plugin, thus can come via prove (.proverc, ENV, -Pretty ...)....
• Commented on Spelunking: why 'while(){ }' is my new favorite perl-ism
  until(){} gives a syntax error. I wonder if Larry intended to imitate the behaviour of another language. Or if this is Larryish syntactic sugar. Or a bug....
• Commented on Spelunking: why 'while(){ }' is my new favorite perl-ism
  As if () {} gives a syntax error, there must be a bug in while or if, or the docs are wrong. Compare this: $ perl -e '$c = () ? 1 : 2;print $c,"\n";' 2 From the docs I...
• Commented on One package perl pm file
  Tricky hiding things from a not-so-smart parser isn't a good solution. Yes, it should be a CPANTS/Kwalitee metric. It compares to use strict, where also are good reasons in some cases for no strict....
• Commented on One package perl pm file
  I would not go so far that this is a bug, but it is not best practice, not straight ahead design. Tie::Handle seems repaired in a backwards compatible way. Why not the other Tie::* ones?...
• Commented on One package perl pm file
  Is there an important reason, why Tie::* does not have its own source distribution?...
• Commented on Detecting JSON/YAML/Perl/CSV/TSV/LTSV
  Just a test, if posting works....
• Commented on Detecting JSON/YAML/Perl/CSV/TSV/LTSV
  You can see it as a classification problem and try feature detection. A feature can be a matching pattern, e.g. reserved words: my $patterns = { 'true' => qr/ \b true \b /xms, 'false' => qr/ \b false \b /xms,...
• Commented on Does it Really only take a min?
  I tried on my server with 1 gbit connection: Install Debian package Mojolicious (no tests): 8.321 seconds The latest and gratest Mojoliciuos via cpanm: 38.687 seconds Install DBIx::Class via cpanm: 4m32.159s....
• Commented on Blast From the Past
  This blog-software is really crap....
• Commented on Blast From the Past
  For the avoidance of doubt: Mojo::Template can be used standalone and is not restricted to HTML: # perl -e 'use Mojo::Template;my $o = Mojo::Template->new->render("1+1 = ");print $o;' 1+1 = 2...
• Commented on Blast From the Past
  You forgot Mason which IMHO has still a large community. The embedded Perl of Mason uses a syntax which is very similar to Mojo embedded Perl. I do not understand why you believe that "Mojolicious breaks CPAN". You can use...
• Commented on Moose Dying With "Invalid version format (version required)"
  To catch more of such problems earlier it would be nice to have (and run) something like: Test::DependentModules->minimaltocurrent_version() Test::WithRequiredModules->minimaltocurrent_version() It would help to set 'x_breaks' announced by ETHER. Also helps to downgrade required versions numbers to avoid dependency 'bleed and...
• Commented on I hate Dist::Zilla and missing Makefile.PL
  Yep. That's why I stopped contributing to padre after two days wasting my time to distzilla caused problems. I just wanted to debug some broken plugins, which was not possible by the usual build test, or direct execution of t/some.t...
• Commented on Showing Hidden Files on OS X and Time Machine
  I always have ShowAllFiles on, because I need to see and edit .git .gitignore .htaccess .perlcriticrc .perltidyrc and others. Also I want to see the crap which OSX, Windows and (most) Linux desktop environments (DE) leave in directories. It's a...
• Commented on CPAN modules for converting markdown to HTML
  Thanks for these reviews. What I would also like to see in a comparison is the amount of code (verbosity, complexity) necessary for the examples. Maybe this needs some trials which measure out of - lines of code - keystrokes,...
• Commented on Galileo CMS
  I like Galileo because it's very well designed and clearly coded. But as an CMS for real world sites it's too limited: - use of web sockets limits it to modern browsers - only flat menu structure...
• Commented on CPAN candidates for adoption
  Nice work. IMHO the scoring should be improved. The current scoring does not score high, if - the author releases cosmetic changes - the author maintains many packages - the module has no dependents - the module has a small...
• Commented on ruby vs perl / github cannot use utf8
  In Perl it is also possible to use the range above 0x10FFFF. This feature was re-enabled with Perl 5.14 (or 5.16?). Many editors have also the restriction of an 16 bit internal representation. So, sometimes it's hard to create test...
• Commented on Unicode is 20++ years old and still a problem
  How is File::Find supposed to know how file names are encoded on your particular filesystem? File::Find could guess the encoding via e.g. Encode::Locale with an accuracy of 99.99%. Of course the sanity must be checked during decoding, because Posix handles...
• Commented on Unicode is 20++ years old and still a problem
  It's File::Find which does not use char-mode. There is nothing wrong with Text::CSV::Slurp....
• Posted Unicode is 20++ years old and still a problem to Helmut Wollmersdorfer

  Just did a quick hack to read out product data from an old shop site and import it into a new one:

  - wget -r
  - File::Find
  - Mojo::Dom for parsing
  - Text::CSV::Slurp for the result

  After 11 minutes running for 14 K pages I experienced the bad surprise:

  One …

Comment Threads

• Yuki Kimoto commented on What prevent warnings pragma become default feature?

  Helmut Wollmersdorfer

  >But sometimes it is necessary to turn it off, e.g.

  Is this resolve "no warnings"?
  

• Yuki Kimoto commented on What prevent warnings pragma become default feature?

  >In short, warnings::register prevents it. In other words you aren't sure about the set of warnings that are going to be enabled implicitly.

  That is true. But if we don't need warnings, we can do "no warnings". It is good that warnings is default.

  >so enabling warnings by default everywhere might cause unwanted problems.

  No, No. What I say is that "use VERSION" enable warnings pragma by default.

  It have no effect to users who don't use use VERSION.

  
  

• fluca1978 commented on What prevent warnings pragma become default feature?

  I suspect retro cvompatibility is the issue. If you enable warnings on default you nave to refactor old code to USS no warnings.

• Yuki Kimoto commented on What prevent warnings pragma become default feature?

  fluca1978

  >I suspect retro cvompatibility is the issue. If you enable warnings on default you nave to refactor old code to USS no warnings.

  No, No, I insist that "use VERSION" enable warnings pragma by default. retro compatibility is no matter.

  
  

• Luca Ferrari commented on What prevent warnings pragma become default feature?

  If retro compatibility is not an issue, I suspect that Perl developers would have already enabled warnings by default.

  On the same line of thoughts, why is not "my" a default for variables?

  Why not automatically using a predefined set of modules without having to specify "use"?

  The language has been built and evolved in a specific way, so while we can change the future, we cannot destroy the past.