... then shame on you. But as consolation, you may be interested in this job posting which we were asked to distribute. Since the course for which they're...
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James Keenan
jamesekeenan
May 11, 2005 1:53 am
Note: This is not exactly the same posting as last week. Read on ... Our final official meeting for the 2004-05 season will take place on the third Tuesday...
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James Keenan
jamesekeenan
May 11, 2005 10:39 pm
From YAPC organizers in Toronto: Register now to avoid accommodations bottlenece! Hi everyone... There have been some recent developments on the YAPC::NA...
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Jim Keenan
jamesekeenan
May 13, 2005 1:17 pm
In case you need any more convincing to attend YAPC in Toronto at the end of June, there's a nice interview with Richard Dice, the conference's lead organizer,...
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James Keenan
jamesekeenan
May 18, 2005 3:44 am
Thanks to all members and attendees at the eight meetings of the fifth season of Perl Seminar NY. And special thanks to our speakers! Oct 2004: Alex Gill and...
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James Keenan
jamesekeenan
May 18, 2005 4:30 am
I uploaded a file containing a *very* rough description of our discussion tonight of MJD's Higher-Order Perl. Go to ...
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Mark P Sullivan
pedidex
May 19, 2005 5:09 am
I read a bit of perlsub after last night's discussion. Calling a prototyped function with improper arguments gives a compile-time error (not run-time, though...
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Jeff Anderson
captvanhalen
May 19, 2005 2:26 pm
Why even use prototypes in Perl5? Aren't they broken? Free yourself man! Down with the tyranny that is prototypes!!! And sorry i missed the meeting Tuesday ......
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James Keenan
jamesekeenan
May 19, 2005 10:08 pm
... Would you give some examples of how they're broken? ... I don't feel they're particularly tyrannical. I've never had occasion to write a subroutine which...
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Perrin Harkins
consumer
May 20, 2005 3:44 am
... Tom Christiansen wrote a lengthy article about why you shouldn't use them. Randal has also told people not to use them. Tom's article is here: ...
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Vsevolod (Simon) Ilyu...
simonf
May 23, 2005 7:03 pm
Hi, To test CGI file uploads, I've created a class that behaves like a scalar and a filehandle at the same time. In scalar context, it returns the uploaded...
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Perrin Harkins
consumer
May 23, 2005 7:19 pm
... That sounds needlessly confusing to me. What's the advantage? - Perrin...
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Vsevolod (Simon) Ilyu...
simonf
May 23, 2005 7:26 pm
... That's what happens when you process a file upload using CGI.pm. In order to test the code that processes these files, I had to come up with a way of...
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Kurt Starsinic
kurt_starsinic
May 23, 2005 8:27 pm
... Pardon my ignorence, but what is "filehandle context?" - Kurt...
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Vsevolod (Simon) Ilyu...
simonf
May 23, 2005 8:32 pm
... I've probably used a bad term. I mean that a variable can be used as a regular filehandle, plus in assignments it returns a string instead of its value...
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Perrin Harkins
consumer
May 23, 2005 9:06 pm
... So it's a mock CGI upload? That sounds more reasonable, but in general I would want to discourage people from creating magical interfaces like this. -...
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Vsevolod (Simon) Ilyu...
simonf
May 23, 2005 9:14 pm
... I'm all for it, but is there a better way to test CGI uploads? Simon -- Simon (Vsevolod ILyushchenko) simonf@... http://www.simonf.com Terrorism is...
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James Keenan
jamesekeenan
May 23, 2005 10:03 pm
... It's apparently a subject which hasn't generated much discussion until now. I googled for "CGI upload" on both perl.module-authors and perl.qa and came up...
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Vsevolod (Simon) Ilyu...
simonf
May 23, 2005 11:40 pm
... Thanks, but looks like none of that deals with what I propose. ... NAME CGI::Filehandle SYNOPSIS #Test code: use CGI; my $q = new CGI; my $fh =...
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Vsevolod (Simon) Ilyu...
simonf
Jun 20, 2005 10:51 pm
Hi, To follow up on the discussion of "Higher Order Perl", I've tried applying its ideas. Here's a rewrite of a Python FP example. ...
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Jeff Anderson
captvanhalen
Jun 27, 2005 3:57 pm
Maybe i'm just too practicle, but what advantage does FP offer over a straight foward approach, such as: use strict; use warnings; my $arg = shift; while...
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Vsevolod (Simon) Ilyu...
simonf
Jun 27, 2005 4:09 pm
Jeff, Well, it's much more flexible - you can dynamically change what files and what rules you use. I think it's one of the main points of FP - check out the...
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Steven Lembark
x17f606ab2d4...
Jun 27, 2005 5:11 pm
-- Jeff Anderson <captvanhalen@...> ... Sort of like relational calculus: It depends on whether you're trying to find a general solution to somthething ...
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Steven Lembark
x17f606ab2d4...
Jun 28, 2005 12:26 pm
-- "Vsevolod (Simon) Ilyushchenko" <simonf@...> ... Ugly? You can always go out of your way to write perl that's sloppy enough that it looks worse than...
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Vsevolod (Simon) Ilyu...
simonf
Jun 28, 2005 1:22 pm
... I referred to my code in relation to the original Python code. :) ... Purely visually, Perl has more special characters which make the code look ungainly...
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Vsevolod (Simon) Ilyu...
simonf
Jul 5, 2005 10:00 pm
Hi, Can I call methods of the elements of an array returned from a function in the same statement that calls the function? That is, I'd like something that...
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David H. Adler
dhanyc1
Jul 5, 2005 11:35 pm
... Well, my first response would be "why??" dha -- David H. Adler - <dha@...> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ however, if people don't like Perl, they...
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Vsevolod (Simon) Ilyu...
simonf
Jul 5, 2005 11:41 pm
... Because I can't. :) Seriously, database query methods in Class::DBI return arrays, not array refs. I'm used to writing, roughly,...
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David H. Adler
dhanyc1
Jul 5, 2005 11:48 pm
... I don't know if I can endorse that reason, but I certainly understand it! :-) ... Hm. The two (totally untested) ideas that pop off the top of my head are:...
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James Keenan
jamesekeenan
Jul 6, 2005 12:02 am
... Why the curly braces here? Shouldn't they be parens? jimk...
