This Week on p5p 2000/05/07

Notes Moderation is Imminent Simon’s Guide to p5p Big Discussion of perldoc and Indexing X<> splitpod Aliases perldoc Wishlist Tom’s Plan Editorial Opinion Section Mark Fisher’s man Replacement Pod::Parser Output Model roffitall Patches to perlre mktables.PL Needs Work Jarkko…

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This Week on p5p 2000/04/30

Notes Line Disciplines Continue Ben Tilly Fixes map Gack! Big Bug in 5.6 More pack Options IPC::BashEm perldiag Re-alphabetized Poor Diagnosis of sort Errors glob() function not documented Overloading Assignment POSIX Character Classes First Cite for ‘Perl’? Various Notes…

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This Week on p5p 2000/04/23

Notes Meta-Information Brief Update p5p to become Refereed? perlretut and perlrequick Threading Hilarity Line Disciplines Older Discussion of Disciplines Big Line Numbers Pseudohash Field Names, Hash Performance, and map Performance C with Embedded Perl `Unreachable’ code. sprintf Precision SDF…

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What's New in 5.6.0.

Table of Contents   • Unicode - Perl goes    international!   • Better Building   • Improved Compiler   • Version Tuples   • Lexical Warnings   • Lvaluable Subroutines   • Weak References   • POSIX Character    Classes   • Miscellaneous Bits `Darn it, who spiked my coffee with water?!’…

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This Week on p5p 2000/03/05

Notes Meta-Information Brief Update Module Warnings POD Changes Race conditions in statndard Perl utilities open Calls not checked in perldoc Big Flame Wars Chip and Jarkko Quit Templates in pack and unpack use strict in the core modules Various…

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Ten Perl Myths

Beginning Perl : Ten Perl Myths -> Introduction Table of Contents •Perl is hard •Perl looks like line noise •Perl is hard because it has regexps •Perl is hard because it has references •Perl is just for Unix •Perl…

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RSS and You

RSS is Born Contents: • RSS is Born • XML::RSS • my_portal • Future of my_portal Netscape had one of the first “portals” on the Web, a place where users could go to get most of their information needs…

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This Week on p5p 1999/12/26

Notes Meta-Information Module Interface and Version Meta-Information SVs by Default Another return of PREPARE More Flushing Problems Array::Virtual #line directives DProf Various Notes Last year I fell behind on reports because I took three business trips in two weeks….

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This Week on p5p 1999/12/19

Notes Meta-Information More 5.005_63 Results $^H and %^H Perl RPMs Development Continues on Ilya’s Patches Change to xsubpp Closed Filhandle in Signal Handler pad_findlex Needs to be Recursive Conversion Specifier Bug The Trivial Test eof() at the Beginning of…

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This Week on p5p 1999/12/12

Notes Meta-Information 5.005_63 Released Development Continues on Ilya’s Patches Regex Optimizations PREPARE XSLoader Change to xsubpp Path Location New Improved File::Find DB_File Locking Technique use Parameters in XS Module Initializations next in XS-invoked Perl subroutines -Dp improvement Log::Agent Getopt::Long…

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This Week on p5p 1999/12/05

Notes Meta-Information m//g in List Context eof() at the Beginning of the Input Shadow Passwords Continue Perl, EBCDIC, and Unicode lock Keyword Safe::Hole Change to xsubpp Euphoria Talarian SmartSockets perlxstut and perlxs Additions Reset umasks Mailling List Archives Unavailable…

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Sins of Perl Revisited

Sins of Perl Revisited -> Sins of Perl Revisited Implicit Behaviors and Hidden Context Dependencies To Paren || ! To Paren? Global Variables References vs. Non-references No Prototypes No Compiler Support for I/O or Regex Objects Haphazard Exception Model New…

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This Week on p5p 1999/11/28

Notes New Meta-Information Thread Model Discussion Discussion of Line Disciplines Continues Shadow Passwords Bugs in NT Perl Sockets? Run Out of File Descriptors Lexical Variable Leak Control-Backslash Bitwise Operators Taint Bug? next Outside a Block Quiet List Various Notes…

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