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Issue #361 - 2018-06-25 - Perl 5.28.0 is now available!
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Hi there! I hope you'll have a few minutes between two World Cup games to check out some of the articles. A new version of Perl has been released. Go play with that. Also today is the date that search.cpan.org will shut down and redirect everything to MetaCPAN.org. Let's thank Graham Barr and all the other people who helped him build it and maintain it for almost 20 years. Let's also wish good luck to the developers and maintainers of MetaCPAN who will now receive all the traffic. Give them a hand improving and supporting this application! Enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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Announcements
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by Dan Book (DBOOK) A new site perldoc.pl that shows the documentation of Perl. Very nice! I'd love it to be part of MetaCPAN though as I don't think people (especially beginners) should need to know what is part of Perl and what is an external module. |
Articles
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by Jeffrey Kegler (JKEGL) In the post on procedural parsing, the subparsers were like combinators, in that they could be called recursively, so that a parse could be built up from components. Like combinators, each child could return, not just a parse, but a set of parses. And, as in combinators, once a child combinator returned its value, the parent parser could resume parsing at a location specified by the child combinator. | 
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by Neil Bowers (NEILB) A one-day conference on ethics for developers and technologists in London on July 13th. A few Perl-related companies are also among the sponsors. | 
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by Jeffrey Kegler (JKEGL) A lot has been written about parsing left recursion. Unfortunately, much of it simply adds to the mystery. In this post, I hope to frame the subject clearly and briefly. |
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Testing
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by Alexey Melezhik (MELEZHIK) Simple Web Application Test is a Web testing framework using Outthentic::DSL. This version has some -minor- breaking changes. | 
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Web
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Grants
Perl Tutorial
A section for newbies and for people who need some refreshing of their Perl knowledge. If you have questions or suggestions about the articles, let me know and I'll try to make the necessary changes. The included articles are from the Perl Maven Tutorial and are part of the Perl Maven eBook.
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) The Useless use of hash element in void context warning that you might get if you follow my suggestion and turn on warnings in Perl. |
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Perl 6
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CPAN
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by Neil Bowers (NEILB) While trying to find the date when search.cpan.org was created I bumped into this GitHub repository. Fascinating. |
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