James

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• Commented on Test-Simple Release-Candidates
  How do alphas reach rc wuithout going through beta? This will go well....
• Commented on Tonight’s folly
  and for those who dislike map in void context: s/foo/bar/ for (my @new = @old);...
• Commented on Tonight’s folly
  my @new = map { s/foo/bar/; $_ } @{[@old]}; is also an option, though not a terribly pretty one....
• Commented on Tonight’s folly
  The problem with /r is that it should really be r// not s//r, Things that are different should look different....
• Commented on Tonight’s folly
  map { s/foo/bar/ } (my @new = @old); or my @new; map { s/foo/bar/ } (@new = @old); works fine too...
• Commented on Tonight’s folly
  Finally a use for the /r modifier....
• Commented on Data::Dumper Debugging
  Toby Inkster: |& is only inherited from csh, |& in ksh is for co-process creation. So the reason people don't reach for it is perhaps because it is non-standard, non-portable and incompatible. And (luckily) not every /bin/sh is a /bin/bash...
• Commented on I learn something about tell(), then abuse it.
  Or you could have used $fh->input_line_number() instead of $....
• Commented on Need IO::Pty help with *BSD/OSX
  For at least OpenBSD and NetBSD, there are patches in ports/pkgsrc for IO-Pty/Expect which may be related....
• Commented on Create Perl Competition to the PHP Content Management System
  Might want to make comparisons to a PHP CMS rather than a blogging platform with some CMS features. WebGUI is more like Drupal than WordPress, which is more like Movable Type. Not sure I would have interest in supporting WebGUI8...
• Commented on Watch the secret YAPC::NA live
  http://www.yapc.org/ isn't even living in 2014, YAPC::NA and YAPC:EU 2013 are still coming....
• Commented on When a failure is not a failure
  not running with warnings on? $ perl -Mwarnings -le 'exit 1 ? 2 : 3' ; echo $? Useless use of a constant (2) in void context at -e line 1. Useless use of a constant (3) in void context...
• Posted search.cpan.org to James

  Where oh where can my search.cpan.org be?

• Posted The Onion to James

  Veg of the Day
  

• Commented on Views in DBIx::Class
  Or you could turn off virtual and use an actual SQL view....
• Commented on Blast From the Past
  Embperl 2.5.0 still hanging out in beta right now....
• Commented on Looking at DBI Part 1
  DBI shouldn't care about SQL dialects, in fact, quoting from the manual "The DBI itself does not mandate or require any particular language to be used; it is language independent. In ODBC terms, the DBI is in "pass-thru" mode, although...
• Commented on A framework for Alien modules (the Alien2 Manifesto)
  Since these days, read Linux for Unix, it'll probably have to be de-mangled to work on other unix-y systems too. "Yay" it manually parses pkg-config files, that'll end well....
• Commented on The way to write Ruby + Middleman application with Perl.
  This is a bit like how Poet works for Mason 2...
• Commented on Write GUI faster -> GCL
  If we're talking about XML files for building GUIs, there is also Glade for Gtk+. Also Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory or (newer) Gapp, or Tk::QuickTk have similar syntaxes, but I think a less method syntax heavy soluction like Tickit::DSL might be better....
• Commented on Planet Moose - August 2013
  oh no, not twigils! the name and the idea are both quite horrid....
• Commented on shortcomings of perl
  Catalyst, Poet/Mason, Dancer, Mojolicious....
• Commented on Smoking CPAN in one line
  SQLite shouldn't be using exclusive locking for multiple concurrent reads, only writes, surely? Wouldn't excessive locks in SQLite mean time to a database system with a server, not another serverless solution?...
• Commented on function return in scalar context
  Alternatively you could create attributes with Attribute::Handlers and turn off the redefine warning and create a pair of functions like this (or even three functions, for void context): sub lowercase :Scalar { lc $_[0] } sub lowercase :List { map...
• Commented on Firebase with perl
  Yeah, I don't think anyone bothers writing official libraries / API wrappers for Perl anymore, so not a surprise....
• Commented on A generator object for Perl 5
  Another vote for overloading ‘<>’...
• Commented on I love pre-modern Perl and so should you, my introduction
  The funniest part is that POE often gets thrown into the Modern Perl bag, see Task::Kensho::Async...
• Commented on A call to action for CPAN authors
  oh, we made a breaking change, and its youuuur fault your code is broken!...
• Commented on Recursive deferred promises
  Since you're already working with AnyEvent, this functionality can be achieved with Condvars....
• Commented on How do we know when a CORE module is deprecated?
  So, presuming CGI.pm gets removed, does that mean Plack/PSGI gets added? toby: CGI::PSGI->new($env) returns a CGI::PSGI object that isa CGI...

Comment Threads

• fibo commented on How do we know when a CORE module is deprecated?

  Come on, it's not that tragedy. On RedHat perl-CGI is already packaged.

  It is not that difficut to include instructions for those who want to port their CGI scripts.

  Something like

  
sudo cpan CGI


  will do the trick ;)

  I think Perl can move on and remove CGI.pm from core modules.

  What it is really missing in the core, in my opinion, are IO::Socket::SSL and Plack.

  Look at Node.js core, for example http://nodejs.org/api/tls.html

  We need https!
  

• exodist7 commented on Test-Simple Release-Candidates

  James,

  Simple terminology issue. On cpan you can release a dist as either indexed (stable/normal) or unindexed (usually denoted via an underscore and a number at the end of the dist version.) I had always seen people call these unindexed dists alphas. I had assumed that was simply the term for it on cpan. I always thought it was funny that there was alpha, but no other designation.

  Your comment prompted me to take a look and ask around. Turns out un-indexed are not simply called alphas, which makes more sense. Mistake on my part, I will update my post to change the terminolog…

• ben.hengst commented on Test-Simple Release-Candidates

  Awesome work! Thanks for plowing thru all of this for us.

• tepaulsen commented on One-liner XML / Perl / JSON

  Mother of god ... It actually worked .. no errors either ..

• Philip Durbin commented on Perl dropped and Go adopted due to concurrency issues in baconbird

  This old post of mine was just referenced in a new post by Mario Roy called "STFL Terminal UI - Concurrency Demonstrations" at http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1200923 . Enjoy!