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Issue #73 - 2012-12-17 - The 3rd annual Perl 6 Coding Competition
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Hi, Christmas is only a week away so it is just appropriate to mention the 3rd Perl 6 Coding Competition run by Carl Masak. Enjoy Gabor Szabo |
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Advent Calendars
Code Quality
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by Yanick Champoux (YANICK) Yanick Champoux wrote a simple perl script that can switch between 'if (cond) {statement}' and 'statement if cond', one of the possible refactorings in Perl. He hooked it up to vim, but if the code is released both as a stand-alone script, and as a module, then it could be used in other editors and IDEs as well. | 
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Upon reading the Perl Advent Calendar entry of today, Oylenshpeegul adds a cautionary note on wrapping gifts in exotically-doored laundry rooms lock_nfs (and locking file on NFS partitions), recommending the use of File::NFSLock for those cases. |
Fun
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by Neil Bowers (NEILB) Every once in a while people come along various Perl channels, mailing lists and forums and ask what perl project they could be involved. Neil Bowers is now trying to set up some metric that will show which CPAN modules need the most attention. Some metric based on the number of bugs, the age of bugs, the date of most recent release etc. Among the comments you can also find the process, to take over maintainership of a module. | 
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Grants
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Shlomi Fish has finished his TPF grant work. I hope he will do more grants. |
Tutorial
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As a follow-up to my previous article introducing sorting, in this article I introduced the Schwartzian transform. It is not some bleading edge material, but I hope it will be useful for the people reading the Perl Maven materials. |
Perl 6
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The 3rd edition of the Perl 6 coding contest has started a few days ago, but it is still not too late to join. There are 5 tasks to do till 18th January. So you have a full month to learn Perl 6 and implement the tasks. |
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