This Week on p5p 2000/06/25
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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Return of Program Repair Shop and Red Flags
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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This Week on p5p 2000/06/18
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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Adventures on Perl Whirl 2000
Adventures on Perl Whirl 2000 -> Can a tech conference on a luxury cruise boat possibly be legitimate? Sure it is, and then some. This past Memorial Day, I joined about 200 attendees on Perl Whirl 2000, the inaugural Geek…
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This Week on p5p 2000/06/11
Notes Byte-Order Marks Magic Auto-Decrement Bug Reports Core Dump I Core Dump II Exit status obliterated by system() after exit()-> Class::Struct objects misbehave with ->isa() Data::Dumper Weirdness Blessed coderefs never DESTROYed Code compiled incorrectly MacPerl Test Suite Patches Why…
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ANSI Standard Perl?
An Interview with HP’s Larry Rosler Larry Rosler was both editor of the draft standard and chairman of the Language Subcommittee for X3J11. He helped put ‘ANSI’ in front of C. He is also just another Perl hacker. Larry…
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This Week on p5p 2000/06/04
Notes Ilya Quits B::Bytecode is Ineffective Ben’s map Patch split Oddities scalar Operator Doesn’t perlmodlib perlnewmod Method Lookup Caching Perl in Russia Eudora Problem h2xs Backward Compatibility Various Notes You can subscribe to an email version of this summary…
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This Week on p5p 2000/05/28
Notes Regex Engine Enhancements eq and UTF8 operator Caching of the getby Functions Forbidden Declarations Continued Perl in the News readonly Pragma Continues Magical Autoincrement Doctor, Doctor, it Hurts When I Do This! use strict ‘formatting’ Complex Expressions in…
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This Week on p5p 2000/05/21
Notes my $x if 0; Trick Zero-padded numbers in formats Forbidden Declarations Port to Windows/CE chat2.pl is Still There pod2latex Long Regexes UTF8 Hash Keys UTF8 String Patches mktables.pl has Been Addressed More Environmental Problems readonly Pragma Tutorials Brad…
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Pod::Parser Notes
Pod::Parser Notes -> Some of my co-workers noticed the p5p weekly summary discussing (among other things) Pod::Parser. They mentioned it to me, and said they thought it cast me in an unfavorable light. So I’d like to clear up a…
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Perl Meets COBOL
A few weeks ago I went to do a four-day beginning Perltraining at a local utility company. It was quite different from other training classes I’d given. Typically, my students have some Unix and C experience. These students, however,…
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This Week on p5p 2000/05/14
Notes Regex Stress Testing Another Thread-Safing Patch Enormous perldoc discussion winds up Build patches for OS/2 Regex Engine Method calls on unblessed references Version Tuples Broken? Negative Subscripts for Tied Arrays Upcoming corrections Various Notes You can subscribe to…
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This Week on p5p 2000/05/07
Notes Moderation is Imminent Simon’s Guide to p5p Big Discussion of perldoc and Indexing X<> splitpod Aliases perldoc Wishlist Tom’s Plan Editorial Opinion Section Mark Fisher’s man Replacement Pod::Parser Output Model roffitall Patches to perlre mktables.PL Needs Work Jarkko…
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Program Repair Shop and Red Flags
What’s wrong with this picture? -> What’s wrong with this picture? Reading the Input Computing Average and Total Times Sort Order Printing the Report Red Flags Get Rid of Array Size Variables Use Compound Data Structures Instead of Variable Families…
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This Week on p5p 2000/04/30
Notes Line Disciplines Continue Ben Tilly Fixes map Gack! Big Bug in 5.6 More pack Options IPC::BashEm perldiag Re-alphabetized Poor Diagnosis of sort Errors glob() function not documented Overloading Assignment POSIX Character Classes First Cite for ‘Perl’? Various Notes…
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This Week on p5p 2000/04/23
Notes Meta-Information Brief Update p5p to become Refereed? perlretut and perlrequick Threading Hilarity Line Disciplines Older Discussion of Disciplines Big Line Numbers Pseudohash Field Names, Hash Performance, and map Performance C with Embedded Perl `Unreachable’ code. sprintf Precision SDF…
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What's New in 5.6.0.
Table of Contents • Unicode - Perl goes international! • Better Building • Improved Compiler • Version Tuples • Lexical Warnings • Lvaluable Subroutines • Weak References • POSIX Character Classes • Miscellaneous Bits `Darn it, who spiked my coffee with water?!‘…
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My Life With Spam: Part 3
My Life with Spam -> How I Caught the Spam and What I Did With it When I Caught it This article is the third in a series; you may want to read Part 1 and Part 2 if…
