On Friday 21 December 2007 12:48, Uri Guttman wrote: > what about perl 5.10 as a topic for the next meeting?
I am rewriting my little CD ripper program (geared toward people who care about audio metadata more than the average guy, especially those with large collections of classical music), and had reached a point where I was running out of lazy options to implement the functionality I wanted. Especially for track title parsing, where 5.8 regexes were not cutting it, I was considering options like wrapping the matching code in (ugly, non-generic) logic, or using Parse::RecDescent or even some flavor of Perl 6 regexes (Perl6::Rules, kp6, etc.). With named backreferences/captures, and named patterns, things are suddenly becoming much easier and satisfying. I can also see places in the code where other 5.10 features will be useful, like the switch statements, say or others. So I will have some real code to show by January 8th, both for illustration and for critique, perhaps worth a half hour of discussion. In truth, with all the new regex functionality we could fill a couple of meetings easily. Just how much code I will have is not clear, because with two brand new babies at home, things are very unpredictable, and some days I get absolutely nothing done besides mere survival, heh. But I have already implemented a complete basic grammar for classical music titles that uses named captures, and have also run into a couple of issues that could be interesting to discuss. Bernardo _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
