[kw-pm] TPR at upcoming meeting

Daniel R. Allen daniel at coder.com
Tue Jan 18 16:27:09 PST 2005


On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Eric - fishbot wrote:

>  - I am thinking that in March or April I would try to give
>    a talk about Perl 6 Rules and Grammars.  They are
>    tremendously powerful, and it is possible that we might
>    actually be able to use them in place of tools like
>    Parse::RecDescent and lex/yacc well before Perl 6 sees a
>    production environment.  Please let me know if there is
>    interest in this topic.

The only thing I've used grammars for is parsing HTML/XML, and parts of it
seemed sort of alien to me, but I'm sure you could make the topic
interesting and accessible.  Sounds good to me.

>  - Pizza for me, please.  I linked the PizzaList wikipage to
>    the meeting, hope that doesn't make your life harder.

Not at all.  I think I'm going to see if they'll deliver, since my late
afternoon thursday is sorta-kinda busy.

Are there ore pizza fans, besides fishy, lloyd, and shuchit?  Please put
yourself on http://kw.pm.org/wiki/?PizzaList   ...thanks.


>  - I'm returning Perl & XML to the lending library.  Can I
>    borrow the Alpaca book?

Yup- I'll make a note to bring "Learning Perl Objects, References, etc."

-Daniel

> See everyone in a couple days,
> Eric
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