A New York City Perl hacker asked me last week, "Hey, Jim, wazzup with Perl Seminar?" Good question: Our 2005-06 season will begin 5 weeks from today, on ...
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Carl Friedberg
friedberg@...
Sep 13, 2005 10:48 pm
Hi Jim, I might allow my arm to be twisted on using perl and the word object to build documents. This is not original work, as the entire idea is out on the...
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James Keenan
jamesekeenan
Sep 14, 2005 12:10 am
... Carl: I WANT THIS! In my day jobs I have long wanted to be able to use Perl to write MS Word (or, in my current job, WordPerfect) files. After all, it's...
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James Keenan
jamesekeenan
Sep 15, 2005 3:05 am
Alex Gill and I met this evening to hash out ideas for our upcoming season. We came up with a wide array of meeting topics which we'll toss out in a series of...
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Gill, Alex
alexgill77
Sep 15, 2005 4:53 am
Hi Perlsemny! In speaking with Jim about the upcoming Perlsemny season, we're considering the idea of opening up the meetings with book reviews. Programming...
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James Keenan
jamesekeenan
Sep 18, 2005 11:27 pm
Friends, As you know from other e-mails over the last week, we've begun working on the schedule for the 2005-06 Perl Seminar NY season, which will begin...
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David Golden
xdaveg
Sep 19, 2005 12:43 am
... I'd be willing to tackle a talk on inside-out objects, as I've been doing a lot of experimentation with them recently, including uncovering a major bug in...
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James Keenan
jamesekeenan
Sep 19, 2005 1:12 am
... Excellent; think in terms of the third Tuesday of some month probably between December and February. jimk...
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Mike Allred
derl1
Sep 19, 2005 3:01 am
... On the subject of best practices, I would be interested in a discussion on how people are managing multi-developer Perl projects. More specifically: - any...
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Martin Heinsdorf
martinheinsdorf
Sep 19, 2005 10:39 am
Jim and Alex, A couple of month ago, a co-worker gave me one of those maddening logic problems on a xeroxed sheet. I tried to solve it by hand, but then I...
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Mark P Sullivan
pedidex
Sep 19, 2005 4:14 pm
... Aye, a few years back, I 'ad been teachin' a compil'r course, an' I was gettin' frustrated by CS students what lacked basic pragmatic computer skills. So...
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J.E. Cripps
cycmn@...
Sep 19, 2005 5:10 pm
... Sad but this is often the case. ... Not to everyone. Not sure of the Perl connection though. But for those finding themselves without a /bin, there's the...
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James Keenan
jamesekeenan
Sep 19, 2005 10:16 pm
... [snip] ... Mark: This is a good idea. As a matter of fact, it's pretty close to an idea Alex and I talked about last week and which is scheduled to be ...
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James Keenan
jamesekeenan
Sep 19, 2005 11:40 pm
Tonight's installment in the 2005-06 perlsemny planning saga .... Here's another way in which you could organize a presentation for Perl Seminar NY during our...
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tbdavisus
Sep 21, 2005 8:10 pm
Greetings, ... One thing to consider in scheduling, is that many types of iterators can be implented best with a closure. -- Tom Davis...
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James Keenan
jamesekeenan
Sep 21, 2005 10:01 pm
... Tom, would you be able to develop a presentation on this? I'm thinking something along the line of 20 minutes that could follow a more general ...
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Steven Lembark
x17f606ab2d4...
Sep 22, 2005 6:00 am
-- James Keenan <jkeen@...> ... There is a nice, simple, fast one at the top of Quantum::Superpositions. Well enough commented to figure out how it...
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Thos Davis
tbdavisus
Sep 22, 2005 8:17 am
Greetings, ... I would be happy to talk about using closures to create iterators, but it's not 20 minutes worth. I could maybe do 10 if I stretched it. And if ...
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Steven Lembark
x17f606ab2d4...
Sep 22, 2005 1:39 pm
... You can also use lexicals to matain state within the closure: sub getlist { my $base_uri = shift or croak ... ; my $curr_uri = ''; sub { spiderize...
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Jeff Anderson
captvanhalen
Sep 22, 2005 6:46 pm
How about including the keyword return in there? Instead of simply having a comment that says "# pass back undef" you can actually "pass back undef" return...
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Andy Lester
petdance
Sep 22, 2005 6:49 pm
... But in general that's bad. A bare "return" is usually best because it's equivalent to return wantarray ? () : undef; It just Does The Right Thing. xoxo, ...
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Jeff Anderson
captvanhalen
Sep 22, 2005 6:55 pm
Fair 'nuff. Just as long as the word return is there. ... -- jeffa...
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Steven Lembark
x17f606ab2d4...
Sep 22, 2005 10:05 pm
-- Andy Lester <andy@...> ... actually it's equivalent to: () which in a scalar context gives you an undef back. It can also leave you with: return...
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Jeff Anderson
captvanhalen
Sep 22, 2005 10:51 pm
I can't see why you would stick a bare pair of parens with a comment that says "# pass back undef" ... -- jeffa [Non-text portions of this message have been...
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Steven Lembark
x17f606ab2d4...
Sep 26, 2005 4:09 am
... What about the Test Notebook? It is a lifesaver for writing modules (or having to evaluate them before use). -- Steven Lembark...
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Steven Lembark
x17f606ab2d4...
Oct 1, 2005 6:54 pm
... From: Shlomi Fish <shlomif@...> Subject: New Website for Perl Beginners: perlmeme.org ... -- Steven Lembark...
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James Keenan
jamesekeenan
Oct 5, 2005 12:32 am
Hold the date: Tuesday, October 18, 6:15 pm, for the October 2005 Perl Seminar NY meeting. We'll have a good agenda, which we'll probably finalize later...
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James Keenan
jamesekeenan
Oct 13, 2005 2:10 am
At long last, we're on our way! Perl Seminar NY opens its sixth season next Tuesday night, October 18. Here's wazzup: Summer Conference Roundup: ...
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Gill, Alex
alexgill77
Oct 14, 2005 3:27 am
This month's NYSIA monthly meeting sound interesting, so if anyone would like to attend the meeting (day before PerlSemNY), let me know by Monday morning at...
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James Keenan
jamesekeenan
Oct 17, 2005 10:35 pm
Final reminder that our 2005-06 season kicks off Tuesday evening at 6:15 pm. The agenda is here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/perlsemny/message/486 NYPC...
