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Issue #201 - 2015-06-01 - Legacy Perl?
latest | archive | edited by Gabor Szabo
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Hi, This week seemed to generate fewer articles than earlier weeks. I can see several days go by without any article on blogs.perl.org I wonder what's going on? It is also the last day for the early-bird discount of the courses at YAPC::EU See you there! Gabor Szabo |
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Articles
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) This might be natural to the seasoned Perl developer but the BEGIN block is powerful. |
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by Sebastian Willing (SEWI) References are not allowed as hash keys. They will be stringified and you'll have a key like this HASH(0x14b7720) |
Discussion
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by Katie McLaughlin "We're coming to a point where Perl is legacy." after fixing a bug in a 16 years old monitoring system. (Reddit) | 
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Announcement
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Nestoria stopped giving out its monthly award. Apparently they could not find 12 additional CPAN authors among the 563 members of the Perl community on Gratipay worth awarding. |
Testing
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by Philippe Bruhat (BOOK) Test::Requires::Git offers a simple way to declare which versions of git a test depends on, so that it can be skipped if the available git does not match the specification. | 
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by Sinan Unur (NANIS) Or how to convince Perl it has not loaded a module yet even though it already has. | 
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Perl
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by brian d foy (BDFOY) Some rally crazy stuff probably you have not heard about Perl either. Introducing NaN and Infinity, two 'numerical' values in Perl that probably no one uses. | 
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CPAN
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by Buddy Burden (BAREFOOT) In which you learn that PAUSE isn't using your distname to figure out your module name any more, and you'll also learn how to test your Dist::Zilla plugin. |
Perl 6
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by Carl Mäsak The Send more money is a fun exercise for when you are bored, and it is interesting to implement it in software as well. Following the implementation of MJD in Haskell, Masak is showing it in 4 different ways in Perl 6. | 
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by Thomas Klausner (DOMM) Thomas takes his glorified cp script written in Perl 5 as part of the Picture-of-the-day toolchain and converts it to Perl 6 finding out on the way that Perl 6 is usable and it is loading faster than Perl 5 + Moose. |
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