Red Flags Return

What’s Wrong With This Picture? -> Astute readers had a number of comments about last week’s Program Repair Shop and Red Flags article. Control Flow Puzzle In the article, I had a section of code that looked like this: $_…

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This Week on p5p 2000/11/27

Notes Regexp Engine SOCKS and Sockets for, map and grep Encode Licensing PERL5OPT Unicode on Big Iron Carp SvTEMP Locales and Floats Low-Hanging Fruit Miscellaneous Notes You can subscribe to an e-mail version of this summary by sending an…

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This Week on p5p 2000/11/07

Notes Error number parsing VMS hackery The (f)crypt of mystery Yet more self-ties Rsync vs. FTP’ing the patches Changes to README.aix The Regex Stack Problem Things nobody’s fixed Craig Berry Various Notes You can subscribe to an email version…

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Critique of the Perl 6 RFC Process

Table of Contents •Problems with Proposals of Major Changes •Problems with Proposals of Minor Changes •Miscellaneous Problems •Overall Problems •Bottom Line A Very Brief Summary Discussion of major changes is pointless in the absence of a familiarity with internals…

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State of the Onion 2000

Hear Larry Wall’s Keynote (Because of the time length, we’ve broken up Larry Wall’s keynote at O’Reilly’s Open Source Roundtable into four seperate audio files.)   Part One MP3     RealPlayer   Part Two MP3     RealPlayer   Part Three MP3     RealPlayer   Q…

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Beginner's Introduction to Perl

Editor’s note: this venerable series is undergoing updates. You might be interested in the newer versions, available at: A Beginner’s Introduction to Perl 5.10 A Beginner’s Introduction to Files and Strings with Perl 5.10 A Beginner’s Introduction to Regular…

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Programming GNOME Applications with Perl

-> Table of Contents •Architecture Introduction •Hello, World •Adding a Menu Bar •Adding an About Box •Adding More Chrome •Final Program GNOME is the Unix desktop. It’s a framework for writing graphical applications with Unix, providing drag-and-drop, interapplication communication,…

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This Week on p5p 2000/10/08

Notes Self-tying is broken Virtual values Why is unshift slow? More Perl hacking guidelines Integer and floating-point handling printf %v format bug fixed Jarkko impersonates me Various Notes First, the meta-news this week is that you have a new…

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