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Issue #322 - 2017-09-25 - Calling all vim users
latest | archive | edited by Neil Bowers
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If you use vim-perl, then have a look at Rob Hoelz's post, and possibly add a comment on the github issue. There are two TPF grant requests for $7,500 -- that's a sizeable chunk, so have a look at them, and possibly comment. And finally: Gabor is nearly over the line on the crowdfunding for his Dancer e-book. I backed it, and not because he's my Perl Weekly boss :-) Neil Neil Bowers |
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CPAN News
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by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL) Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)'s regular lists: Great modules released last week; MetaCPAN weekly report; StackOverflow Perl report. |
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by Buddy Burden (BAREFOOT) Buddy shares a Moose pattern that he learned from a colleague. If you've a class with two attributes that get their values from different parts of the same config file, you only want to read the file if one of the attributes is used, but more than that, you only want to read it once if both attributes are used. Buddy shows you how. |
Perl 5
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by John SJ Anderson (GENEHACK)
This week saw the latest release on the development track for Perl 5. These are monthly releases, which contain the work done by the Perl 5 Porters in stepping Perl 5 towards the next stable release. A range of | 
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Rakudo
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by Jonathan Worthington (JONATHAN) Jonathan describes the new Rakudo thread pool, his work on which was supported by Vienna.pm. In this post he outlines the problems with the previous thread pool, then describes how the new design addresses those problems. | 
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Misc
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by Yuki Kimoto (KIMOTO) Kimoto-san shows how you can implement part of your work in C/C++ using his SVPM system. | 
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The Perl Foundation
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by Will Coleda (COKE) ACT (A Conference Toolkit) has been used to provide the web-site for many Perl conferences over the years, but it's starting to show its age. Theo van Hoesel has requested $7,500 to work on a new version of ACT. If you've thoughts on ACT's problem, either as an organiser or attendee, please add them in the comments. |
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by Will Coleda (COKE) Timo Paulssen is requesting $7,500 to develop a web front-end to the existing instrumented profiler. As ever, if you've thoughts on the value of this, please add them in the comments. |
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