.NET is the latest hype blitz from Microsoft (and you thought it was just a domain). If your eyes are glazing over or you’re tempted to write it off as marketing speak, read on. Although Microsoft is loath to…
Objects and Modules -> 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…
Notes Object creation and destruction More cool PerlIO stuff What to do with bugs UV Preserving Arithmetic Code checkers Precedence Reminder about the FAQ Various Notes You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending an…
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…
Notes Tests Charnames Regular Expression Bug xsubpp Perlipc Examples Buggy PerlIO news Dodgy Function Names Lvalue Subs Various Notes You can subscribe to an e-mail version of this summary by sending an empty message to p5p-digest-subscribe@plover.com. Please send corrections…
Programming GNOME Applications with Perl, Part Two -> Table of Contents The Cookbook Application The Main Screen Columned Lists Displaying Recipes Where We Are, And Where We’re Going Notes on the Last Article Last month’s article examined how to create…
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: $_…
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…
s/// and m// -> 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…
Notes Fixing the Regexp Engine UTF8 and Charnames PerlIO (again) =head3 (again) New subs.pm Congratulations Various Notes You can subscribe to an e-mail version of this summary by sending an empty message to p5p-digest-subscribe@plover.com. Please send corrections and additions…
What’s wrong with this picture? The Interface The Code open_info_file start_info_file start_next_part read_next_node Looking for the menu Putting It All Together Red Flags Don’t Repeat Code eof() return 0 and return undef Brief Confession What’s wrong with this picture?…
Notes stat vs. lstat Threads and POSIX PerlIO README.Solaris Locales Integer handling revisited =head3 Little fixes Various Notes You can subscribe to an e-mail version of this summary by sending an empty message to p5p-digest-subscribe@plover.com. Please send corrections and…
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…
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…
(This is a slightly edited and expanded version of the reply I sent to perl6-meta@perl.org spurred by Mark-Jason Dominus sending the URL to his critique on the Perl 6 RFC process.) I agree partly on Mark-Jason Dominus’ critique, but…
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…
Notes sprintf Parameter Re-ordering The Dangers (and bugs) of Unicode Self-Tying Is Broken Configure Confused By Changing Architectures Encode Switch Various Notes You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending an empty message to p5p-digest-subscribe@plover.com….
$16,500 pledged, another $11,000 needed to liberate Damian Conway. As reported earlier, the Yet Another Society (YAS) is putting together a grant to Monash University, Australia. The grant will fund Damian Conway’s full-time work on Perl for a year….
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