This Week on perl5-porters - 20-26 January 2008 by David Landgren- January 31, 2008 This Week on perl5-porters - 20-26 January 2008 "Adding new lists of things to remember to a language is only a good idea if you&39;re making money with certification." -- Juerd Waalboer, on why your program shouldn&39;t have to plead to use new functionality.Topics of InterestMore C for Perl programmers The "I know Perl, how to learn C" thread continued this week with a number of book and and web site references given. The thread then veered off into a...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.summary/2008/01/msg199.html This Week on perl5-porters - 13-19 January 2008 by David Landgren- January 24, 2008 This Week on perl5-porters - 13-19 January 2008 "Shifting something that&39;s not a number shouldn&39;t produce a number." -- AbigailTopics of Interest"grep" and smart match should warn in void context Larry Wall remarked last week that Zefram&39;s suggestion regarding the propagation of context from "grep"s and "map"s was how he deal with the matter. Nicholas spelled out his understanding of the matter. Zefram ventured further into the...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.summary/2008/01/msg198.html This Week on perl5-porters - 6-12 January 2008 by David Landgren- January 16, 2008 This Week on perl5-porters - 6-12 January 2008 "Um, I think you caused me negative work. I rather wanted "dtrace" support and it seemed that because of you I didn&39;t have to write it." -- Nicholas Clark, on the joys of having other people do your work for you.Topics of InterestEver more strict In the continuing "strict by default in 5.12" thread, Glenn Linderman made a most pertinent remark: Perl 6 has staked the "strict be default" claim..http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.summary/2008/01/msg197.html This Week on perl5-porters - 30 December 2007-5 January 2008 by David Landgren- January 11, 2008 This Week on perl5-porters - 30 December 2007-5 January 2008 "That&39;s now twice in this thread that I&39;ve been accused of favouring languages that I actually dislike ... . I think the Java model of exception signatures is awful." Zefram (I hope you know this will go down on your permanent record).Topics of InterestException roles, take 1 Ricardo Signes wrapped up the year with a first cut at doing exception roles in Perl (the idea being that one would manage errors...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.summary/2008/01/msg196.html This Week on perl5-porters - 22 December 2007-29 December 2007 by David Landgren- January 5, 2008 This Week on perl5-porters - 22 December 2007-29 December 2007 "Remember, everyone is a beginner, but only for a small time." -- Abigail, on why you can&39;t please everyone, everywhere, all the time.Topics of Interest The summaries are back! I had meant to get this out earlier this week, but the season&39;s festivities got the better of me. Enjoy! -- DavidConsting goodness done to excess Robin Barker, in a remarkable coincidence of increasing the summariser&39;s burden,...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.summary/2008/01/msg195.html |