On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 12:13:19PM -, Jeff wrote:
It sounds like you're saying that you should only use a subset of Perl
as some programmers may not understand the other parts of it?
That is what I'm saying. I'm aware that this is a controversial
opinion in the Perl world. However, I
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 01:42:45PM -0500, Perrin Harkins wrote:
It sounds like you're saying that you should only use a subset of Perl
as some programmers may not understand the other parts of it?
That is what I'm saying. I'm aware that this is a controversial opinion
in the Perl world.
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 03:10:54AM -0500, Perrin Harkins wrote:
There is a time and place for map: when you want to do something
to each element in an array and return the array on the other side.
Otherwise, use for, like this: some_function($_) for array;.
Even when map is not incorrect, I
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 06:54:01PM -0700, md wrote:
I can definitely get it all from the db, but that doesn't
seem very efficient.
Don't worry about whether it *seems* efficient. Do it right, and then
worry about how to speed that up - if, and only if, it's too slow.
Premature optimisation is
[sorry for the broken References - I've just joined the list and am
replying to a post in the archives]
On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Perrin Harkins said:
An Object-Relational mapper takes objects and stores them in a relational
database, as transparently as possible. I think the most pure example of
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 08:51:48AM +0800, Gunther Birznieks wrote:
I'm a huge fan of passing Date::Simple objects, which can then take a
strftime format string:
[% date.format(%d %b %y) %]
[% date.format(%Y-%m-%d) %]
And the latter does not require a programmer?
Of course not. It just
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:22:13PM -0400, Jesse Erlbaum wrote:
I'm a huge fan of passing Date::Simple objects, which can then take a
strftime format string:
[% date.format(%d %b %y) %]
[% date.format(%Y-%m-%d) %]
Out of curiosity, at what point of flexibility do you feel it is OK for
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 05:08:56PM -0400, Sam Tregar wrote:
Suppose you have a model object for a concert which includes a date. On
one page, the designers want to dipslay the date in a verbose way with
the month spelled out, but on another they want it abbreviated and fixed
length so
