Having become a fan of OOPerl I would really love to see some good
treatment of using all those nifty Class::* modules. Especially with
multiple inheritance. I have to admit that I've been a bit timid to do
much in the way of experimentation...
BTW, any time anyone approaches me with a desire
I'll have to admit that I haven't gone through most of the cookbook, but I use
sub commify { # commify a number. Perl Cookbook, 2.17, p. 64
my $text = reverse $_[0];
$text =~ s/(\d\d\d)(?=\d)(?!\d*\.)/$1,/g;
return scalar reverse $text;
}
every day. I like my numbers to
On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 08:33 AM, Vic Norton wrote:
I'll have to admit that I haven't gone through most of the
cookbook, but I use
sub commify { # commify a number. Perl Cookbook, 2.17, p. 64
my $text = reverse $_[0];
$text =~ s/(\d\d\d)(?=\d)(?!\d*\.)/$1,/g;
In the spirit of OT, but keeping with the perl-ish nature of this list...
Nathan, I know you are out there. I just wanted to say it in public that
the cookbook is perhaps _the_ most useful perl book for me... much more
so than the other beasts (though the dromedary and the camelid too are
very
On Wednesday, Nov 27, 2002, at 12:28 America/New_York, Puneet Kishor
wrote:
Which brings me to a question. The last edition was 4 years ago. Why
not a version 2 with more tips and tricks? I will send advance
payment to reserve a copy.
I need 2. Where do I send the cash?
--
Lou Moran
Puneet Kishor writes:
Nathan, I know you are out there. I just wanted to say it in public that
the cookbook is perhaps _the_ most useful perl book for me... much more
so than the other beasts (though the dromedary and the camelid too are
very useful). Most everyday I turn to the cookbook
Nathan Torkington wrote:
Puneet Kishor writes:
...
Which brings me to a question. The last edition was 4 years ago. Why not
a version 2 with more tips and tricks? I will send advance payment to
reserve a copy.
...
Anyway, it's all supposed to be out by OSCON next year.
Great! Can't
Puneet Kishor writes:
ps. one suggestion -- don't re-put what's already there in version 1
(errata be damned). I want each and every page of version 2 to be new
and different from version 1.
And here I thought you liked me :-) Sorry, 2ed will be built on top
of 1ed, but with every recipe
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Nathan Torkington wrote:
Puneet Kishor writes:
Nathan, I know you are out there. I just wanted to say it in public that
the cookbook is perhaps _the_ most useful perl book for me... much more
so than the other beasts (though the dromedary and the camelid too are
very
Nathan Torkington wrote:
Puneet Kishor writes:
ps. one suggestion -- don't re-put what's already there in version 1
(errata be damned). I want each and every page of version 2 to be new
and different from version 1.
And here I thought you liked me :-) Sorry, 2ed will be built on top
of
At 12:59 PM -0500 11/27/02, Chris Devers wrote:
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Nathan Torkington wrote:
\ I've been working with other editors at O'Reilly to free up my time so
that I can work on the second edition. Tom's been doing a lot of the
5.8 updating (no more with the new in the 5.004 release
At 1:31 PM -0500 11/27/2002, Dan Sugalski wrote:
I don't think you want to wait that long. The cookbook for perl 6 would likely lag
behind perl 6's first major release by at least 18 months--it's tough to document
useful best practices for a language that's not out yet!
I think it'd also be
Puneet Kishor writes:
(hm, that doesn't sound right. I don't even know you. for all I know
you might be a mean beastie yourself, even though you've got the photo
of baby shirley maclaine on your blog g)
Thanks, I think. That is, of course, my baby picture. Partially
there in accordance
Chris Devers writes:
Cool. It may be silly to ask, but has there been any thought as to how the
release of a Perl Cookbook second edition will coincide with Perl6?
Yes. We're not holding up any of the revisions to our Perl books for
Perl 6. As we've all learned over the past years, it's
At 1:31 PM -0500 11/27/02, Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 12:59 PM -0500 11/27/02, Chris Devers wrote:
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Nathan Torkington wrote:
\ I've been working with other editors at O'Reilly to free up my time so
that I can work on the second edition. Tom's been doing a lot of the
Cool.
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