Weird Syntax

2002-11-14 Thread Dave Cross
I just saw a post in uk.comp.os.linux that used this syntax: use strict qw($var); to declare a variable. I was about to point out that the syntax was wrong but, on testing, I find that it works (it creates a package variable). I can't find this documented anywhere. Did anyone else know about

Re: Weird Syntax

2002-11-14 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
At 09:58 +0100 11/14/02, Paul Johnson wrote: Dave Cross said: I just saw a post in uk.comp.os.linux that used this syntax: use strict qw($var); to declare a variable. I was about to point out that the syntax was wrong but, on testing, I find that it works (it creates a package variable).

Re: Weird Syntax

2002-11-14 Thread Dave Cross
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:58:43AM +0100, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Dave Cross said: I just saw a post in uk.comp.os.linux that used this syntax: use strict qw($var); to declare a variable. I was about to point out that the syntax was wrong but, on testing, I find that

Re: Weird Syntax

2002-11-14 Thread Lusercop
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:33:30AM +, Dave Cross wrote: I may have missed something obvious. It was early when I ran these tests :) Yes, you are. It's just hit me what's happening. You're not turning on strict at all (look at the value of $^H afterwards). It's the equivalent of doing use

Re: Weird Syntax

2002-11-14 Thread Paul Johnson
Dave Cross said: #! /usr/bin/perl use strict qw($x); use warnings; $x = 1; print $x; works without errors. I may have missed something obvious. It was early when I ran these tests :) I think what you are missing is that Cuse strict qw($x); has done nothing. The program is running

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2002-11-14 Thread Ivor Williams
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Re: Weird Syntax

2002-11-14 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
At 09:51 + 11/14/02, Lusercop wrote: On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:33:30AM +, Dave Cross wrote: I may have missed something obvious. It was early when I ran these tests :) Yes, you are. It's just hit me what's happening. You're not turning on strict at all (look at the value of $^H

[ANNOUNCE] Leadership election rules

2002-11-14 Thread Paul Mison
The nominations for leader of London.pm closed on Sunday at noon, GMT. In total, there were six valid nominations and five invalid nominations, as well as two that missed the deadline. However, none of the seven nominations that I did not count would have affected the outcome of the nomination

Technical Reviewer

2002-11-14 Thread Alex McLintock
Manning have asked me to be a technical reviewer for one of their (non perl) books. I have heard that other people on this list have done technical reviewing too. Is it standard practice that technical reviewers don't get paid? I am happy to do the review anyway because I run DiverseBooks.com

Re: st peter's ale

2002-11-14 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:15:54AM +, Billy Abbott wrote: This seems to be true, and they even happily admit it on their website. http://www.stpetersbrewery.co.uk/index.htm?p=developt=htm Your session has timed out. Click here to re-enter the shop or return to the St. Peter's

Re: Technical Reviewer

2002-11-14 Thread Ben
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:34:06AM +, Alex McLintock wrote: Manning have asked me to be a technical reviewer for one of their (non perl) books. Yay. Which one? Is it standard practice that technical reviewers don't get paid? I am happy to do the review anyway because I run

RE: Technical Reviewer

2002-11-14 Thread Neil Fryer
Hi All On this subject, how do you get involved in reviewing books, as I'd love to do this, be there financial gain or not? Thanks Neil Fryer -Original Message- From: Ben [mailto:ben;bpfh.net] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 11:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Technical

Re: Technical Reviewer

2002-11-14 Thread Dave Cross
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:34:06AM +, Alex McLintock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Manning have asked me to be a technical reviewer for one of their (non perl) books. I have heard that other people on this list have done technical reviewing too. Is it standard practice that technical

RE: Technical Reviewer

2002-11-14 Thread Cal Henderson
: -Original Message- : From: Alex McLintock [mailto:alex;OWAL.co.uk] : : Is it standard practice that technical reviewers don't get paid? I am happy : to do the review anyway because I run DiverseBooks.com but I'd like to know : that I am not being taken advantage of. I've done

Re: Technical Reviewer

2002-11-14 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:28:07AM -, Cal Henderson wrote: : -Original Message- : From: Alex McLintock [mailto:alex;OWAL.co.uk] : : Is it standard practice that technical reviewers don't get paid? I am happy : to do the review anyway because I run DiverseBooks.com but I'd like

Re: Technical Reviewer

2002-11-14 Thread Leon Brocard
Nicholas Clark sent the following bits through the ether: Do the publishers that pay their technical reviews tend to get better quality technical reviews than those who don't? Good question. Personally the one thing I don't understand is why they use so few tech reviewers. Surely you'd improve

RE: Technical Reviewer

2002-11-14 Thread Alex McLintock
At 11:01 14/11/02, Neil Fryer wrote: Hi All On this subject, how do you get involved in reviewing books, as I'd love to do this, be there financial gain or not? You ask me for review books and I bring them to a technical meet, or find some other way of giving them to you. Or You ask David

Re: Technical Reviewer

2002-11-14 Thread Billy Abbott
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Alex McLintock wrote: Is it standard practice that technical reviewers don't get paid? I am happy to do the review anyway because I run DiverseBooks.com but I'd like to know that I am not being taken advantage of. they asked me to do a tech review of one of their palm

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Leadership election rules

2002-11-14 Thread Dave Cross
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:04:31AM +, Paul Mison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Voting will open on Monday, 18th November at 12:00 GMT I assume that any votes received before voting opens will be ruled as invalid and therefore ignored. Dave... -- Drugs are just bad m'kay

Re: Apache question

2002-11-14 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 03:14:42PM +, Kate L Pugh wrote: I have a lightweight server serving static content and server-parsed files, and proxying dynamic content through to a mod_perl server. Unfortunately the server-parsed pages have '#exec cgi' directives in them, and the mod_perl server

Re: Technical Reviewer

2002-11-14 Thread Graham Barr
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:34:06AM +, Alex McLintock wrote: Manning have asked me to be a technical reviewer for one of their (non perl) books. I have heard that other people on this list have done technical reviewing too. Is it standard practice that technical reviewers don't get

Re: Apache question

2002-11-14 Thread Mark Fowler
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Kate L Pugh wrote: PerlRequire /usr/local/apache_perl_ukps/startup.pl PerlFixUpHandler Apache::SizeLimit but after about 5--10 minutes of starting up the server, one of the child processes has got all excited again and I have to go killing stuff. You have to

Re: Technical Reviewer

2002-11-14 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:34:06AM +, Alex McLintock wrote: Manning have asked me to be a technical reviewer for one of their (non perl) books. I have heard that other people on this list have done technical reviewing too. Is it standard practice that technical reviewers don't get

Re: Technical Reviewer

2002-11-14 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:01:01AM -, Neil Fryer wrote: On this subject, how do you get involved in reviewing books, as I'd love to do this, be there financial gain or not? Tech reviewing for publishers? Good question. I don't remember how I got started for all of the publishers. I

Embedding mono in perl.

2002-11-14 Thread Chris Ball
Thought this might prove interesting to someone - slides from a talk given at .net ONE in Frankfurt on embedding the mono runtime. Being able to embed a runtime in an Apache handler was used as an example for being able to serve Asp.NET from there. There's also a tarball containing an example