Re: Speed v Version

2011-06-07 Thread Matt Sergeant
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

Re: Someone needs to take jwz aside...

2011-06-07 Thread Matt Sergeant
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

Re: Free beer, and some computery/programmery stuff too.

2011-06-07 Thread Martin A. Brooks
- 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

Re: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

2011-06-07 Thread David Matthewman
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'

Re: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

2011-06-07 Thread Richard Foley
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