[kw-pm] meeting wrapup

lloyd carr dcarr at sdf.lonestar.org
Sat Sep 18 01:19:12 CDT 2004


Lloyd is having a .... time putting the code into a unformatted wiki 
page. wiki kwiki xyziki all seem to have different simple text formatting 
rules. I even went to the official kwiki page and they have .perl ... 
.perl syntax which doesn't work on our kwiki ????

- Lloyd

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Daniel R. Allen wrote:

> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 02:00:49 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Daniel R. Allen <daniel at coder.com>
> To: kw-pm at mail.pm.org
> Subject: [kw-pm] meeting wrapup
> 
> As you can guess, last night we discussed Lloyd's regexp problem, and it
> was lots of fun.  We should do a puzzle again, soon.
> 
> We ultimately agreed that Regexp::Common, though interesting and usefully
> solves the problem of reading certain regexes, also solves a problem that
> doesn't need to be solved by allowing the hackish tied-hash interface
> $RE{foo}{something}{-parameter}{-otherparameter}.  And thus makes code
> harder to read and less maintainable.  Oh well.
> 
> (What I think we need is for Damian to write a module to actually do
> everything from perl6's regex engine, for perl5, and be done with it...)
> 
> We spent an additional bit of time over a pitcher at Heuthers, where we
> learned the evil things Lloyd does with javascript during his (other) day
> job. ;-)
> 
> Mark your calendars; we will next meet on Thursday October 21st:
> Eric will speak on Perl 6: Twenty Things I Love, Five Things You'll Hate,
> and Lloyd will speak on Parrot, the virtual machine that will run Perl 5,
> 6, Python, Java, and other bytecode.
> 
> Hope you can make it.
> 
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