Oct 23, 2000 by Simon Cozens

Notes What is our Unicode model? Why not use sfio? More than 256 Files / sysopen What if cc changes? Unicode on EBCDIC AIX Is Confused Unicode split fixed! Fixes to Carp open() might fail Perl 5 is 5!…

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Oct 16, 2000 by Doug Sheppard

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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Oct 16, 2000 by perldotcom

-> 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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Oct 8, 2000 by Simon Cozens

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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Oct 2, 2000 by Walt Mankowski

Everyone who has read the Camel Book knows that the three great virtues of programming are laziness, impatience and hubris. Most of the columns that appear here at www.perl.com have to do, in one way or another, with either…

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Oct 2, 2000 by Mark Summerfield

YAPC::Europe::London -> This is written for those poor souls who couldn’t make it to give them aflavor of the wonderful event they missed. Despite being an ex-Londoner, I got on the wrong tube Friday morning. The train was packed and…

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Sep 20, 2000 by Joe Johnston

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Sep 19, 2000 by Simon Cozens

Table of Contents •Design Principles •So, uh, what is it? •Where did it get? •What else can be done? •What can’t be done? •Structure of a Sapphire •The future of Sapphire •Reflections through a Sapphire Naming languages after stones…

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Sep 5, 2000 by Mark-Jason Dominus

Table of Contents •Announcements and Overviews •Internals •Language   •perl6-language-data   •perl6-language-datetime   •perl6-language-errors   •perl6-language-flow   •perl6-language-io   •perl6-language-mlc   •perl6-language-objects   •perl6-language-regex   •perl6-language-strict   •perl6-language-subs   •perl6-language-unlink •Miscellaneous Larry said at the Perl conference this summer that the old model of Perl development was not working well…

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Aug 21, 2000 by Joe Johnston

Dr. Damian Conway is best known in the United States for authoring Object Oriented Perl, published by Manning. His lectures at Perl conferences are becoming legendary and are a joy for Perl hackers of all levels. I managed to…

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Aug 21, 2000 by Joe Kline

Were do I begin? Like Willy Wonka said, “..the beginning is a very good place to start…” So let’s start with my journey to the conference. Day 0: July 15, 2000 My flight to San Jose wasn’t delayed too…

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Jul 25, 2000 by Mark-Jason Dominus

“The Effort to Write Perl 6 Has Begin In Earnest” Before Stuck How? Tuesday What About Perl 6? Questions Will Perl 6 be in C++? When can we expect the grand plan? Will Perl 6 have a spec? Will…

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Jul 11, 2000 by Simon Cozens

There are a huge number of books out there about Perl. A quick search on Amazon reveals 362 books; allowing for false positives and books where Perl is a minor part, I’d conservatively estimate there to be over 250 books…

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Jul 11, 2000 by Mark-Jason Dominus

Lightning Reports from YAPC -> Reports from: •Schuyler D. Erle •Avi •Gene Boggs: Day 2 •Sean M. Burke •Uri Guttman •Brad Murray •Lisa Nyman: Report from a First-time Presenter •Clinton Pierce •Nathan Torkington •Adam Turoff •Mark-Jason Dominus Last month Yet…

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Jul 9, 2000 by Mark-Jason Dominus

Notes NEW! RDF Available Bug Database buildtoc use namespace Unicode Input Solution tr/a-z-0// Mutual use sprintf tests Complex Expressions in Formats Threading Failure Test Case What does changing PL_sh_path do? UNTIE Method Sarathy Fixes a Bug that Nobody Knew…

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Jul 2, 2000 by Mark-Jason Dominus

Notes More Unicode Unicode Handling HOWTO Unicode Regex Matching I18N FAQ Normalization Simon Stops Working on Unicode Speeding up method lookups my PACKAGE $foo cfgperl Missing Methods Signals on Windows New File::Spec Another depressing regex engine bug s/// Appears…

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Jun 27, 2000 by Simon Cozens

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Jun 25, 2000 by Mark-Jason Dominus

Notes Method Lookup Speedup tr///CU and tr///UC Removed is_utf8_string Byte-Order Marks Return pack(“U”) Lexical variables and eval() FILEGV perlhacktut perlutil.pod Missing Methods Suppress prototype mismatch warnings Autoloaded Constants not Inlined lib.pm use English Numeric opens in IPC::Open3 Regex Bug…

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Jun 17, 2000 by Mark-Jason Dominus

Unprogramming Computing the remainder Splitting the Input Into Chunks Assembling the Result Red Flags Eliminate synthetic code Beware of special cases in loops Don’t apply string operations to numbers Unprogramming A few weeks ago I got mail from Bruce,…

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Jun 17, 2000 by Mark-Jason Dominus

Notes Method Call Speedups More Attempts to Make B::Bytecode Faster Byte-Order Marks Continue Slurp Bug EPOC Port README.hpux Paths in MacPerl Non-destructed anonymous functions Extensions required for regression tests Eudora Problem crypt docs Magic Auto-Decrement Various Notes You can…

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