rafael's Journalrafael's use Perl JournalVacations- August 15, 2006 So, Perl 5.9.4 is out. And 5.10 begins to appear real close now. I wanted to release a development snapshot before YAPC::EU, as a basis for work and test, for us perl5ers but also for the lambdacamels. I hope everyone will enjoy. Meanwhile, I'm taking a short vacation in Nice (France). See you in Birmingham maybe! (If I manage to get a plane...)http://use.perl.org/~rafael/journal/30634?from=rss Without strict, it's lighter- August 4, 2006 Found in some build script: perl -pi -e 'suse strictuse strictg' someprog.pl You know, guys, removing "strict" from your code before deployment is a bit like removing the safety belt from your car, thinking that without those few dozen grams, it's going to be faster.http://use.perl.org/~rafael/journal/30526?from=rss Axaxaxas mlo- August 2, 2006 Since everyone speaks about the kingdom of Nouns, I'd like to point my readers to that short story by Borges, Tlôn, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius , which describes a kingdom of verbs.Here's an excerpt: There are no nouns in Tl&246;n's conjectural Ursprache, from which the "present" languages and the dialects are derived: there are impersonal verbs, modified by monosyllabic suffixes (or prefixes) with an adverbial value. For example: there is no word corresponding to the word "moon,", but there is.http://use.perl.org/~rafael/journal/30515?from=rss No piano for you- August 2, 2006 I have distorted my right thumb, by carrying heavy stuff. Now I have to train my hands to type on the space bar with my left thumb... and it's awfully difficult.http://use.perl.org/~rafael/journal/30507?from=rss |