[oak perl] Minitalks?

Robert Kuropkat robert-kuropkat at comcast.net
Wed Sep 8 22:52:11 CDT 2004


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This one sounds pretty spiffy... abusive perl techniques are always good 
to see...


Steve Fink wrote:

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> George Woolley wrote:
>
>> The theme of the September meeting
>> (oh my, in only 6 days on Sept. 14)
>> is Hashes.
>>
>> Anyone up for giving a very short talk
>> having something to do with hashes.
>> By very short talk,
>> I mean lightning talk length or shorter.
>> Say 0 to 5 minutes.
>> That would be much appreciated.
>
>
> I could give a short talk on abusing tied hashes to conveniently call 
> functions during interpolation. It's kind of useful for things like
>
>  print "Search for $Google{'angry ants with bad breath'} please.\n";
>
> producing
>
>  Search for http://www.google.com/search?q=angry+ants+with+bad+breath 
> please.
>
> I wrote up a small module to make it easy do things like this a while 
> back, I could dig it up and talk about it.
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