this mean that if I doctor my /etc/hosts file so that
search.cpan.org
is 23.235.37.143 23.235.33.143, then I can click on Google results with
impunity, and always end up on a useful page on metacpan?
I do this - http://perlhacks.com/2013/01/give-me-metacpan/
Dave...
in the UK, and wiped out the nascent
wifi industry
years ago.
I can't remember the last time I went into a pub that didn't have wifi.
Of course, the quality of the service often leaves much to be desired.
http://blog.dave.org.uk/2013/06/public-wifi.html
Dave...
On 08/10/14 20:11, Joel Bernstein wrote:
Are the films not considered canonical?
The two films aren't canonical. They are loose remakes of the first two
Dalek stories from the TV series. With Peter Cushing playing a human
inventor called Doctor Who.
Dave...
time to search.
Dave...
of Westminster, Cavendish Campus.
I suspect that should be Sat 8th November.
London.pm has a long tradition of being crap at calendars. I blame Greg :-/
Dave...
it write the date to
/dev/stdout. )
New patch released overnight which seems to fix that.
Dave...
to
/dev/stdout. )
Kreist, I'm up **it Creek after all :(
Your distro almost certainly has a second patch already available.
Just update your installed package.
This article seems pretty good:
http://perltricks.com/article/115/2014/9/26/Shellshock-and-Perl
Dave...
31, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
I need some HTML/Javascript help.
See http://dave.org.uk/grid.html.
On this page you have a list of courses (Course 1 to Course 6) and three
time periods (T1 to T3). The idea is that each person will select one
course for each of the three
implement this?
Dave...
[1] And, yes, I know I'd need to implement the same checks server-side
as well.
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http://dave.org.uk/
@davorg
version that doesn't need
the braces and does need the comma.
See http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/map.html
Cheers,
Dave...
are generally understood to
be roughly equivalent. :-)
I think he was asking how women stack up against Daves in the subset of
“London.pm leaders”.
Daves have almost certainly got that one nailed, surely?
It's one-all surely?
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http://dave.org.uk/
@davorg
On 09/08/14 10:38, James Laver wrote:
On 9 Aug 2014, at 09:31, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
It's one-all surely?
Are you seriously saying that you’re the only Leader we’ve had
calledDave? That seems… implausible, given Dave distribution.
Off the top of my head...
* Dave
* Paul
Quoting Paul \LeoNerd\ Evans leon...@leonerd.org.uk:
On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 06:31:57 +0100
Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
You know that the same flight number flies on different days? :-)
Huh. I always thought that a flight number always mapped to a given day
of the week as well
.
Gianni: It seems coincidentally I'm on the same flights as you; BA0890
+ BA0819 but you've entered it in Wednesday on the Arrivals, and myself
and Léon have put Thursday - you might want to double-check yours.
You know that the same flight number flies on different days? :-)
--
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On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Sue Spence virtually...@gmail.com wrote:
Date: 20 September 2014
A Saturday if that wasn't obvious.
had lunch with BBC employees (including
Schmoo) at least a couple of times :-)
Dave...
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http://dave.org.uk/
@davorg
Quoting Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk:
Quoting Sue Spence virtually...@gmail.com:
Hi everyone,
London Perl Mongers will hold its next technical meeting in the Brockway
room at Conway Hall on Thursday 24th July, doors opening at 18:30 for a
19:00 start.
Facebook event, for those who organise
://www.facebook.com/events/469685493134908/
Dave...
I have the following to get rid of:
O'Reilly Perl testing
Conway OO Perl
Practical Mod Perl
Beck XP explained
Beck Planning XP
A signed Melissa Cole Let me tell you about beer.
Collect from Camden or I might be able to drop somewhere central.
Cooking and politics/psych too:
http://www.davehodgkinson.com/deliciouslibrary/index.html
discussions on IRC, it seems you definitely won't be alone.
You might get people suggesting alternative venues, but there are
certainly people interesting in drinking with you.
Dave...
[1].
Dave...
[1] Before Perl died :-)
This calls for an emergency.
I propose the Crown and Anchor on Drummond street, 1800 onwards on Friday
16th May.
They do decent beer, food and nibbles as well as Drummond Street being an
excellent venue for assorted not-the-usual Indian foods.
Sad I can't be there.
Bite the bullet and get a Mac.
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:37 PM, James Laver james.la...@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 Mar 2014, at 12:07, Alex Balhatchet ka...@slackwise.net wrote:
On another topic if you want something that looks like Windows XP but
acts like Ubuntu I've read good things
Anyone up for a quick warmup tincture in a while?
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, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
On 04/03/14 21:33, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote:
Does something exist?
If it doesn't does anyone want to help make it happen?
I *really* don't want to have to write the code all over again ten
times...
Something like Web::Scraper, perhaps
miyagawa =)
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com
wrote:
OK, so I've worked out the DSL and am successfully scraping a page.
It's taking a second to parse each page. Seems a bit much.
Installing HTML::TreeBuilder::LibXML seemed like a good idea but didn't
85% of the time is in XML::XPathEngine
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
He's not touched the repo for a couple of years and even then just for
cosmetic things. I don't hold out much hope there.
I get the feeling I'm missing an XS something
Web::Scraper::LibXML is about 5x faster. I'll take that.
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
85% of the time is in XML::XPathEngine
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.comwrote:
He's not touched the repo for a couple
I'll give a talk!
Apropos previous discussions, I'll also try HTTP::Async instead of my usual
route 1. I think it fits better with the approach I'm taking at the moment.
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Leo Lapworth l...@cuckoo.org wrote:
Hi Dave,
When you've finished please could you
HTTP::Async dropped in nicely. Remote end appears to be throttling somehow,
but I doubt most will.
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
I'll give a talk!
Apropos previous discussions, I'll also try HTTP::Async instead of my
usual route 1. I think it fits
Next week then! I'll do Pho today.
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On 5 Mar 2014, at 18:07, Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote:
On 4 Mar 2014, at 21:48, Dave Hodgkinson da...@hodgkinson.org wrote:
[...]
Anyone want to do the West End on Thursday? My current
.
But to the best of my knowledge, Damian has never charged for speaking
to london.pm.
Dave...
I've tended to use Parallel::Process where remote sites have been able to
keep up and haven't been throttled, otherwise just let it run.
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 11:49 PM, Kieren Diment dim...@gmail.com wrote:
Gearman's fine until you need a reliable queue. It's certainly less of a
pain to set
of parallelism in first
place.
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com
wrote:
I've tended to use Parallel::Process where remote sites have been able to
keep up and haven't been throttled, otherwise just let it run.
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 11:49 PM, Kieren
Ah, I'd booked lunch with a JavaScript guy. Could drag him along.
Like I say, Joy King Lau.
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote:
On 4 Mar 2014, at 21:48, Dave Hodgkinson da...@hodgkinson.org wrote:
[...]
Anyone want to do the West End on Thursday? My
On 04/03/14 21:33, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote:
Does something exist?
If it doesn't does anyone want to help make it happen?
I *really* don't want to have to write the code all over again ten times...
Something like Web::Scraper, perhaps?
https://metacpan.org/pod/Web::Scraper
Dave...
On 3 Mar 2014, at 21:45, Tom Hukins t...@eborcom.com wrote:
Hi all,
London Perl Mongers will meet for lunchtime Dim Sum this Wednesday at
the Lotus Floating Chinese Restaurant:
http://www.lotusfloating.co.uk/
I was wandering along Shaftesbury avenue a couple of days
ago and had a
I don't like the feel of sri's stuff. And the Mojo ecosystem is alien to me.
More comfortable with the Asians.
I'll play tomorrow.
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On 4 Mar 2014, at 22:55, Pierre M piema...@gmail.com wrote:
I love using
Web::Scraper
It's so
Quoting gvim gvi...@gmail.com:
What is the main general Perl mailing list, ie. most active for
general Perl questions? lists.perl.org has over 200 entries.
There isn't one. Perl mailing lists are all specialised in some way.
Dave...
that. There isn't one.
Why did you want to know?
Dave...
...or the IRC channels for the thing you're having problems with.
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes sthoe...@gmail.com
wrote:
Mailing lists kind of suck for most question/answer sequences; what
they are good at is discussion (witness this thread).
For general perl
.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Lane
Well, if not details exactly, certainly enough of a clue to work it out :)
Dave...
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http://dave.org.uk/
@davorg
good things about Komodo. Every few years I try
installing Eclipse and EPIC and then look on appalled as my machine
grinds to a halt.
Recently I've been using Padre and really like it.
Cheers,
Dave...
p.s. You started this discussion by replying to an existing message and
changing
I'm about to hit CPAN, but any wisdom from you lovely people
would be nice!
I've got bank statements in PDF from Barclays. Would it be easy
to produce a CSV of the statement parts from them?
What's the go-to PDF module?
https://www.pdftoexcel.org/ seems to have done a halfway passable job.
On 12 Dec 2013, at 10:47, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm about to hit CPAN, but any wisdom from you lovely people
would be nice!
I've got bank statements in PDF from Barclays. Would it be easy
stepped up to the plate, I nominate the Bag o’
Nails. Or rather Dave Cross nominates it and I’m announcing it. Meet
you there around 5:15. Everyone else can feel free to pop along as
well.
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/45/453/Bag_O_Nails/Victoria
I'm suggesting it as my default pub
Russian tea rooms in Primrose Hill is closed, sadly.
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On 6 Nov 2013, at 08:47, Randy J. Ray rj...@blackperl.com wrote:
First off, thanks to everyone who helped out with sight-seeing suggestions.
This visit to London has been much more enlightening (and exhausting) than
.
Wikipedia has a good piece on the locations used in Eastern Promises.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Promises#Locations
But I'm not a regular enough visitor to those part of London to know
whether they actually have the kinds of business you're looking for.
Cheers,
Dave...
This needs an update and I now disagree with some of the comments and there
are three great musems to be added:
http://www.davehodgkinson.com/blog/2009/08/emergency-london-tourist-stuff-updated/
I wrote it on the tube on the way to pick up my soon-to-be wife :)
The extra museums are the Geffrye
Does SQL::Abstract get you halfway?
Avoid Tangram.
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk wrote:
On 21/10/13 15:33, Abigail wrote:
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 02:37:52PM +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote:
Any recommendations for an ORM? I am looking for something simple rather
Am I right in thinking that we have people who work at Bytemark on this
list? If that's correct, then could one of them please contact me
off-list. I think that they could help a friend of mine with some problems.
Thanks,
Dave...
Capture::Tiny just did the job for me today. Screw line noise.
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On 3 Oct 2013, at 21:26, Paul Weaver paul.wea...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
I have a program that needs to run an external program (ffmpeg)
I do this by running
my $cmd = $FFMPEG -i '$file' 21|
open(CMD, $cmd);
Given that you're only going to/from the station a couple of times, I
wouldn't worry about it. Euston is well connected and there's always magic
black chariots. Pick where you want to stay and enjoy that.
Also, Camden is a great place but is a bit short of hotels, except the
Holiday Inn. Go
Quoting James Laver james.la...@gmail.com:
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On 10 Sep 2013, at 08:50, Raphael Mankin r...@mankin.org.uk wrote:
This approach has exponential complexity. Definitely infeasible.
Not necessarily. How many courses are there Dave?
About 30.
Dave...
Quoting Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk:
I have offered to help a friend[1] solve what sounds like an
interesting problem.
[ snip ]
Thanks for all the suggestions.
It turned out that I only had two or three hours to do this, so I
didn't have time to research any of the algorithms that you
quickly become oh, we'd better
not put more than 32 students in one class.
Dave...
Are there classes that are close to each other in a content sense that
would make a good fallback?
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
Quoting Pierre M piema...@gmail.com:
Arg, too late.
Each student goes to 2 classes then? That would mean that you can
Quoting James Laver james.la...@gmail.com:
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
Not necessarily. How many courses are there Dave?
About 30.
Sorry, that was in the original email. I meant to ask how many students.
387.
to start looking.
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Cheers,
Dave...
[1] And those of you who know that my wife is a teacher might well
draw conclusions about who that friend is :-)
Prolog. Facts and rules then go solve.
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
I have offered to help a friend[1] solve what sounds like an interesting
problem.
She has a list of courses that are offered. Some of these courses have a
maximum class size
Quoting James Laver james.la...@gmail.com:
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Paul Johnson p...@pjcj.net wrote:
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 01:30:00PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Prolog. Facts and rules then go solve.
no
Actually, Prolog was my first thought too. The major limitation
On 08/23/2013 05:32 PM, gvim wrote:
On 23/08/2013 16:40, Dave Cross wrote:
In your original email, you said:
The problematic mail file doesn't display any non-ASCII characters when
opened in Vim
A pound sign is a non-ASCII character.
By pound sign do you mean £ or #? I don't quite
Quoting gvim gvi...@gmail.com:
On 22/08/2013 17:26, Dave Cross wrote:
There's a pound sign at the end of that line. A3. That's your problem.
Thanks. Appreciated.
In your original email, you said:
The problematic mail file doesn't display any non-ASCII characters
when opened in Vim
it as such. And then barfs when one of the
characters is in the range 128-255 - which is invalid for utf8.
All a guess though.
Dave...
at the end of that line. A3. That's your problem.
Dave...
arrange at least a couple of other meetings
if you're going to be around for so long. Is there anywhere in
particular that you would like to see?
Cheers,
Dave...
well. We did it all again a month later.
And every month since.
Sorry about that :-/
Dave...
Quoting Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk:
On the 6th August 1998 twelve Perl programmers met in the cellar bar
of the Cittie of Yorke.
Trying to remember the twelve people who came. I'm struggling at nine.
Dave Cross
Richard Clamp
Dave Cantrell
Robin Houston
Kass Schmidt
Steve Mynott
Leo
If you have all day, the museums in Kensington are good and free and have paid
engaging cinema. Attenborough penguins in the natural history soon I believe...
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On 5 Aug 2013, at 18:08, David E. Wheeler da...@justatheory.com wrote:
On Aug 5, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Piers Cawley
of our
first meeting.
I guess we should celebrate at the meeting on the 8th.
Dave...
Threads? Now you have two problems. Why not processes?
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On 28 Jul 2013, at 20:07, Bob MacCallum uncool...@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry for the Perl question, but I'm a bit out of my depth...
I have a Dancer app providing a web service, and I have another script
using the same
Or at the tech meet :)
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
More than happy to talk IRL. I'm in Hoxditch or Camden.
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Dinis Rebolo dinisreb...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi Peirre, have you read the blogs Ovid has about startups
More than happy to talk IRL. I'm in Hoxditch or Camden.
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Dinis Rebolo dinisreb...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Peirre, have you read the blogs Ovid has about startups?
http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/07/perl-startups-lacuna-expanse.html
I have had good results in the past on resistive websites with WWW::Selenium.
It was straightforward to get running under Ubuntu, but does require a full
browser and an x server. I hear phantom.js is good, and has a Perl wrapper.
--
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-Original Message-
Don't use system Perl. Brew your own and make it part of the app.
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On 22 Jul 2013, at 23:04, Pierre M piema...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you, all. That's very good advice.
Yup, the main thing is to make money before it runs out. Abigail, your
comments to Ovid's blog post
On 15 Jul 2013, at 17:06, Dave Hodgkinson da...@hodgkinson.org wrote:
Is anyone still using this? Seems the last unauthorised release
was 2007 and CPAN testers is not looking good.
Which leads on to the next question - has anyone migrated a Tangram
schema to one that would make sense
Is anyone still using this? Seems the last unauthorised release
was 2007 and CPAN testers is not looking good.
tonight.
[Note to Mark: If you give me advance notice, I'll update the
redirection before you announce the web site.]
Dave...
I have an entry level web fusion one. It's decent considering.
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On 21 Jun 2013, at 13:54, Ben Tisdall b...@tisdall.org.uk wrote:
I'm moving to Germany and would like to maintain a UK IP address while
there, primarily to run a web proxy. I'd like to spend no more than 10
/errata.csp?isbn=9780596004927
Dave...
A lot of? Are people really using this in production code now?
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On 14 Jun 2013, at 09:32, jason ja...@ukfsn.org wrote:
On 2013-06-14 09:11, Smylers wrote:
There isn't such a list -- its experimental nature means anything
might change. P5P doesn't have consensus, and no
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 07:03:18PM +0100, James Laver wrote:
We did formalise an alternative, in the form of :state, but I don't know
about how well it's used. It also incurs a performance penalty that
people are presumably unhappy about (but then one assumes it's also
incurred by the informal
free to pass on this email to them.
Cheers,
Dave...
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http://dave.org.uk/
@davorg
?
Because it is the result of an optimization - lexicals are reset upon leaving
scope, not entering it, and only if the my() was reached during execution.
Nevertheless, I believe Dave Mitchell had a patch to fix it that never
quite made it in.
The original patch was a proof-of-concept that hoisted
On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 10:43:02PM +0100, Gordon Banner wrote:
Also that would break
my $var = outer;
{
my $stashed_value = $var;
my $var = inner;
...
}
(except that it wouldn't). My example wasn't meant to be literal: it was
just a hand-wavy explanation of moving the
In keeping with the spirit of the list, this isn't directly a perl question
but it might be part of the solution.
I'm picking up HTML from another site, and that HTML is pretty crappy.
Is there any way of quarantining it so it doesn't bugger up the rest of the
page?
Quoting Dave Hodgkinson da...@hodgkinson.org:
In keeping with the spirit of the list, this isn't directly a perl question
but it might be part of the solution.
I'm picking up HTML from another site, and that HTML is pretty crappy.
Is there any way of quarantining it so it doesn't bugger up
I did a thing about 10 years ago using HTML::TreeBuilder to remove elements and
attributes which aren't on a whitelist.
Dave
--Original Message--
From: Dave Hodgkinson
Sender: london.pm-boun...@london.pm.org
To: London. pm Perl M[ou]ngers
ReplyTo: London.pm Perl M\[ou\]ngers
Subject
Individual random number daemons?
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On 18 May 2013, at 21:53, Randy J. Ray rj...@blackperl.com wrote:
(It's a pun, see, because I'm going to be asking about random number
generators... get it? Get it...?)
(Short, TL;DR summary: I'm looking for a pRNG that can have
Quoting Aaron Trevena aaron.trev...@gmail.com:
or you could get a trainer onsite.
That sounds like a *fabulous* idea :-)
Quoting Aaron Trevena aaron.trev...@gmail.com:
On 14 May 2013 14:10, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
Quoting Aaron Trevena aaron.trev...@gmail.com:
or you could get a trainer onsite.
That sounds like a *fabulous* idea :-)
bbcOther perl trainers are available/bbc ;)
Yebbut Who ya
Quoting AJ Dhaliwal adhaliwa...@gmail.com:
Dave...
[Who is seriously considering replacing fkth.is with fkth.at]
Too late. I have purchased fkth.at and will sell it to you for 1
million dollars.
First rule of domains: never mention in public a domain you might be
interested in, without
Quoting Kieren Diment dim...@gmail.com:
On 08/05/2013, at 7:37 PM, Dave Cross wrote:
Quoting AJ Dhaliwal adhaliwa...@gmail.com:
Dave...
[Who is seriously considering replacing fkth.is with fkth.at]
Too late. I have purchased fkth.at and will sell it to you for 1
million dollars.
First
Anyone still using this? Assuming you have credentials from
before they shut it off.
(and more details) at http://www.opentech.org.uk/2013/
Hope to see some of you there.
Dave...
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http://dave.org.uk/
@davorg
to cope
with all of the possibilities (sensible or not).
Dave...
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http://dave.org.uk/
@davorg
than two parameters, the extra ones are just silently
ignored. I think I like that option best, but I wouldn't object if the
constructor just died instead.
Cheers,
Dave...
p.s. This conversation would be much easier to follow if we all used
the same quoting style :-/
Quoting Th. J. van Hoesel th.j.v.hoe...@gmail.com:
Op 3 mei 2013, om 10:21 heeft Dave Cross het volgende geschreven:
Quoting Th. J. van Hoesel th.j.v.hoe...@gmail.com:
to me, it would make sense for 3 parameters:
Number::Fraction-(int, num, den);
but that would be helpful to work
, but I've just rediscovered (and
republished) the article that I wrote explaining how Number::Fraction
works.
http://perlhacks.com/articles/perl-com/overloading-perl-objects/
Cheers,
Dave...
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