Re: [Boston.pm] Perl 6 has become too complex

2003-03-17 Thread Joe Johnston
y comes that I can't do what I need to with Perl, there will be other tools available. I rather wish this entire Boston.pm thread had been devoted to the last episdoe of Farscape showing this Friday on SciFi. Farscape's untimely cancellation is indeed worthy of lamentation and t

Re: [Boston.pm] search list

2002-11-27 Thread Joe Johnston
reate your own data structures in Perl and search them in the most appropriate way. You can even use XS extensions to create data structures that are faster to build and search. I recommend being lazy and using huge, sloppy globs of RAM to solve your problems. RAM is cheaper than programming ti

Re: [Boston.pm] Prototypes for object methods?

2002-09-12 Thread Joe Johnston
or any of the several OO tutorials that come with the standard perl docs. For the record, I always attempt to use accessor methods outside the class definition (yes, I find I have to cheat sometimes). Even in child class, I use accessors. The more people you expect to be using your code, the