<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Greetings Mongers,</div><div><br></div><div>After reading a fun post on Dot based "operators" in perl (<a href="http://perlhacks.com/2014/01/dots-perl/">http://perlhacks.com/2014/01/dots-perl/</a>) a few weeks ago I found myself getting really into the "yada yada" operator. It's not technically an operator, rather "it stands in place of a statement and has no operands" but I have found it to be an excellent addition to my TDD tool kit.</div><div><br></div><div>Basically, rather than doing:</div><div><br></div><div>sub do_awesome_thing {</div><div> croak "Not Yet Implemented"</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>You can do:</div><div><br></div><div>sub do_even_more_awesome_thing {</div><div> ...</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>Which will generate the following when ran:</div><div><br></div><div><span size="3" style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">[rstone@rstone core]$ prove -l t/things/01-that_are_awesome.t<br><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">t/things/01-that_are_awesome.t</span> .. <br> # Failed test 'Lives Through Taking Over The World'<br> # at <span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">t/things/01-that_are_awesome.t</span> line 46.<br> # died: Unimplemented at /home/rstone/repos/awesomness/lib/Super/Cool/Module.pm line 169.<br><br></span></div><div><span size="3" style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">Those three dot's take the place of a `die "Unimplemented"` and stand out quite a bit more to me as something I need to come back and actually implement.</span></div><div><span size="3" style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span size="3" style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">Anyway, hope someone else find this helpful or interesting. Feel free to share any other nifty tips and tricks you may have come across in recent days.</span></div><div><span size="3" style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span size="3" style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">Best Regards,</span></div><div><span size="3" style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">Robert Stone</span></div></div></body></html>