I gave the talk at OSSBarcamp in Dublin last weekend and it went well.
My sincere thanks to everyone who contributed.
The slides are available at:
http://www.slideshare.net/Tim.Bunce/perl-myths-200909
The graphs and stats charting the continuing growth of perl and the perl
community were sur
Author: jimmy
Date: 2009-09-25 12:32:57 +0200 (Fri, 25 Sep 2009)
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Author: jimmy
Date: 2009-09-25 14:32:52 +0200 (Fri, 25 Sep 2009)
New Revision: 28404
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Moritz Lenz wrote:
> Carl Mäsak wrote:
>> Tim (>):
>>> Anything else I should add, change or remove? I'm especially interested
>>> in verifyable metrics showing effort, progress, or use. Ideally graphical.
>>> Any interesting nuggets that fit with the theme will be most welcome.
>>
>> Moritz++ and
Consider this case:
class A { method m { say 'OH HAI' } };
my $m = A.new.^methods(:local).[0];
How should I invoke $m?
In current Rakudo this works:
$m(A.new); # supply the invocant as first argument
But shouldn't be just $m() (invocant magically curried) or may
$m(A.new:) (invocant not cur
Em Sex, 2009-09-25 às 18:28 +0200, Moritz Lenz escreveu:
> class A { method m { say 'OH HAI' } };
> my $m = A.new.^methods(:local).[0];
> How should I invoke $m?
> In current Rakudo this works:
> $m(A.new);# supply the invocant as first argument
> But shouldn't be just $m() (invocant magically
I've been wondering about lenses recently. The page at
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~harmony/ seems to give an overview, and I know that
augeas also uses lenses.
It seems to me that a grammar can be thought of as a one-way lens. I
was wondering whether the bi-directional idea might be interes
