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Issue #497 - 2021-02-01 - perl.com was hijacked
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Hi The big news of the week is that perl.com was hijacked. According to what I have read the solution seem to be already on its way to recover the domain. If you are using a perl.com host for your CPAN mirror you should use www.cpan.org instead (See this post.) You can also find the content of perl.com on perldotcom.perl.org. Ask brian d foy (brian.d.foy@gmail.com) for further details. (See also on Reddit.) I'd like to thank all the people who answered my call 2 weeks ago and started to support Manwar. He went from 21 to 30 patrons. Let's do another round of this! If you have been reading the Perl weekly and would like to show you appretiation to Mohammad who is the most prolific co-editor of the newsletter, then the easiest way to do so is to sign up to his Patreon account and buy him a coffee every month. In other news Perl 5.34 will be released in May. Finally, remember, I've opened the Code Maven school where I already have 4 Perl courses, 3 Python courses besides the Go, Docker, and Git courses. Check them out and let me know what you are missing from there. Enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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Announcements
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The perl.com domain was hijacked. Work is underway to attempt to recover the domain to Tom Christiansen, the rightful registrant. If you're looking for the content, you can visit perldotcom.perl.org which is a temporary host. report and discuss and also on Hacker news. |
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by Jason A. Crome (CROMEDOME) A bunch of small new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. The announcement even mentions my little contribution, setting up GitHub Actions for Continuous Integration. | 
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by Jonas Brømsø Nielsen Workflow - A Simple, flexible system to implement workflows. Written in Perl. |
Articles
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by Mark Gardner Though they are still marked as 'experimental', function signatures have been around for more than 6 years now! To comment visit the dev.to copy of the article or reddit | 
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by David Farrell (DFARRELL) Perl uses a simple form of garbage collection (GC) called reference counting. Every variable created by a Perl program has a refcnt associated with it. If the program creates a reference to the variable, Perl increments its refcnt. Whenever Perl exits a block it reclaims any variables that belong to the block scope. If any are references, their referenced values' refcnt are either decremented or they're reclaimed as well if no other references to them remain. | 
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Testing
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by Takahiro Kudo A simple wrapper script, but IMHO even in such simple scripts it would be better to include the safety boilerplate. If for no other reason then to have better copy-paste templates for other people. |
The corner of Flavio Poletti
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Realizing the folly of their present-exchange rules, the Elves agree to instead steal presents from the Elf directly across the circle. If two Elves are across the circle, the one on the left (from the perspective of the stealer) is stolen from. The other rules remain unchanged: Elves with no presents are removed from the circle entirely, and the other elves move in slightly to keep the circle evenly spaced. | 
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) I was very happy to get past puzzle 19 from the 2016 edition of Advent of Code, but let's admit two facts: I didn't demonstrate that the heuristic is actually a rule; This wouldn't help in some other general case. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) An iterator-based implementation of Permutations with Heap's Algorithm. You saw it coming. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) On with Advent of Code puzzle 24 from 2016: a brute-force approach to a problem similar to the Traveling Salesman Problem. |
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Grants
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Welcome a new week with a couple of fun tasks "Read N-characters" and "Search Insert Position". If you are new to the weekly challenge then why not join us and have fun every week. For more information, please read FAQ page. | 
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Caesar Cipher" and "Binary Substrings" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Adam Russell Adam made use of a bitwisw operator to solve the binary substrings task. You don't want to miss it. | 
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by Abigail Abigail not only sharing Perl solutions but many more. Highly Recommended. |
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by Abigail Cool solution to the Binary substrings task. Must read. |
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by Arne Sommer Arne also used a bitwise operator to solve the binary substrings task. He also shared Perl solutions. |
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by Colin Crain Colin is testing our German in his blog post. A very enjoyable read, highly recommended. |
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by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY) Dave made use of Levenshtein Distance to deal with the binary substrings task. | 
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by James Smith James's one liner for Caesar Cipher task is impressive. Even the binary substrings solution is very clever. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Flavio kept the binary substrings solution simple using just a for loop. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Laurent's blog is, as always, full of magic - whether it is Perl or Raku. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Roger built a hash map for Caesar Cipher task. His olution to the binary substrings task is very clever too. |
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by Simon Green Simon made the tasks look simple by breaking them into smaller tasks. |
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by W Luis Mochan Luis shared solutions with examples which is always handy. |
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) It is quite simple using Test::CSV, but if your file is simple you can also solve this by using split and join. |
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Other
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by Dave Rolsky (DROLSKY) It might not be as interesting as predicticng the Coronavirus or as volatile as US politics, but I'd love to see your predictions for Perl 7, Raku, Go, and Rust. I had some other, more political ideas, but I think I'll leave them out now. | 
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Weekly collections
The corner of Gabor
A couple of entries sneaked in by Gabor.
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) There are currently 4 Perl courses you can get one-by-one, all of them in a single bundle using a one-time payment or a monthly subscription. |
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