Re: Speed v Version
Dave Hodgkinson wrote: My BBC sandbox is sane at least: $ uname -p x86_64 Shouldn't a BBC report 6502? ;-) __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __
Re: Someone needs to take jwz aside...
Simon Cozens wrote: On 02/06/2011 21:50, gvim wrote: Considering the amount of development you've done on Perl web frameworks over the years isn't this tantamount to having given up on Perl, at least for web development? Yes and no. I've moved from being more of a developer to being more of a user. Perl is a fantastic language for developers. It has a great culture for developers. We're all brilliant at producing tools which other developers can pick up and do really great stuff with. Perl is wonderful if I want to write my own web framework, or construct my own CMS on top of one of the hundreds of Perl web frameworks which already exist. As someone else who has written a bunch of popular perl stuff over the years, I'll chime in here too - I write a lot less open source stuff these days, but when I do I'm looking much more to JavaScript. The language is actually about as good as Perl (some areas better, some worse), but the implementation, the interpreters, are just WAY faster. https://github.com/baudehlo/Haraka Matt. __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __
Re: Free beer, and some computery/programmery stuff too.
- Original Message - From: Martin A. Brooks mar...@antibodymx.net To: London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers london.pm@london.pm.org Sent: Friday, 3 June, 2011 3:24:15 PM Subject: Free beer, and some computery/programmery stuff too. The Guardian are doing two events this month, one of which features free beer afterwards. I know you are collectively very good at mopping up excess bar tabs. The beer part of this is at The Fellow, Kings Cross, 1900 We've had slightly fewer people turning up than expected so we're opening up the invitee list a little. -- Martin A. Brooks http://antibodymx.net/ - antispam antivirus email filtering.
Re: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?
On 31 May 2011, at 15:02, David Cantrell wrote:
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 04:27:30PM +0100, Denny wrote:
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 15:36 +0100, David Precious wrote:
if (! Email::Valid-address($email_address) ) {
Something wrong with 'unless'?
Yes. Most of the time you'll either have an 'else' or want to add it
later, and unless ... else is Just Wrong.
Well, in that case, it should be:
if (Email::Valid-address($email_address) ) {
# Code for if the e-mail address is valid.
...
}
else {
# Code you were going to write in the block above.
}
Otherwise your 'else' block is basically a double negative, and (IMAO) just as
confusing for an 'else' block for an 'unless'.
OK, I admit, I've found myself wanting to add an 'else' block to an 'unless'
statement. And it's awkward, but only for the short period of time it takes for
me to rewrite it as an 'if' with the original code in the new 'else' block.
--
David Matthewman
Re: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?
I've found a lot of German programmers very uncomfortable with the unless
keyword, (or maybe it's just c programmers). They appear to very often prefer
to use a construct of the form:
if ( !something ) { ...
Even worse is:
unless ( !something ) { ...
The brain just into tailspin goes.
Where
Ciao
Richard
--
Richard Foley
Ciao - shorter than AufWiederSehen!
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On 31 May 2011, at 15:02, David Cantrell wrote:
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 04:27:30PM +0100, Denny wrote:
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 15:36 +0100, David Precious wrote:
if (! Email::Valid-address($email_address) ) {
Something wrong with 'unless'?
Yes. Most of the time you'll either have an 'else' or want to add it
later, and unless ... else is Just Wrong.
Well, in that case, it should be:
if (Email::Valid-address($email_address) ) {
# Code for if the e-mail address is valid.
...
}
else {
# Code you were going to write in the block above.
}
Otherwise your 'else' block is basically a double negative, and (IMAO) just
as confusing for an 'else' block for an 'unless'.
OK, I admit, I've found myself wanting to add an 'else' block to an
'unless' statement. And it's awkward, but only for the short period of
time it takes for me to rewrite it as an 'if' with the original code in
the new 'else' block.
