[roch-pm] Perl.com Newsletter: Exegesis 2 (fwd)

Mon May 21 15:32:51 CDT 2001

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Greetings, perl.com subscribers.

This is Schuyler Erle, web hacker for the O'Reilly Network, and it
is my honor and pleasure to bring you the latest www.perl.com
newsletter.  So, without throwing an exception, here's what's new
in the world of Perl.

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This week's news is YAPC::America::North, which, as you may know,
will be held this June 13 - 15 at McGill University in Montreal.
What you may not know is that the schedule is now available on the
Yet Another Perl Conference website at:

	http://www.yapc.org/America/talks.shtml

Frankly, this year's schedule looks even more exciting and chock
full of interesting stuff than the previous years', if such a thing
is possible. Larry will be giving the keynote again, Damian will
present "Life, the Universe, and Everything" on Thursday night, and
the whole array of usual suspects will be holding forth in tutorials
and presentations on everything else, with a heavy emphasis this
year on XML, web services, and mod_perl. Mark-Jason Dominus will
once again host the popular Lightning Talks.

Registration has been open for almost a month, so if you're remotely
interested, you can still register online at:

	http://na-register.yapc.org/

While we're on the subject of YAPC, don't forget that the proposal
submission deadline for YAPC::Europe will be June 1.

Also, ActiveState has recently released PerlEx 2.0 for Windows NT.
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cache CGI scripts for significant performance increases. The latest
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Finally, to follow up on our mention of The Perl Journal from a
couple weeks ago, individual subscriptions have shipped, and are
probably winging their way to your mailbox as you read this.
On www.tpj.com, editor Jon Orwant mentions that a new publisher
may be forthcoming. We're definitely keeping our fingers crossed.

* What's new on www.perl.com?

This week, the aforementioned Damian Conway, indentured servant to
the Perl community, serves up his first Exegesis, or "an
interpretation and explanation of a text, esp. Holy Writ." Basically,
while Larry performs the unenviable job of examining in minute detail
all of the various concepts and features that will go into building
Perl 6, Damian will follow along, with the only slightly less
unenviable job of attempting to explicate what all these new ideas
will mean for JAPHs like you and me. The first Exegesis, conveniently
starting at number 2, to match Larry's Apocalypses, demonstrates new
syntax for things like attributes and method calls, with a very
pleasantly surprising conclusion!

Later this week, tune in again as Simon Cozens returns from the
deepest recesses of the perl5-porters mailing lists, bearing tales
of (un)safe signals, negative shifting, and random numbers. Until then,
fearless Perl hackers! We return you to your regularly scheduled E-mail.

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Exegesis 2
http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/05/08/exegesis2.html?wwwrrr_20010515.txt
Having trouble visualizing how the approved RFCs for Perl 6 will
translate into actual Perl code? Damian Conway provides an
exegesis to Larry Wall's Apocalypse 2 and reveals what the code
will look like.

Off The Wall: Larry Wall: Apocalypse Two
http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/05/03/wall.html?wwwrrr_20010515.txt
Larry Wall produces the next episode in his series of
"Apocalypses": glimpses into the design of Perl 6. This week, he
explains how Perl 6 will differ from Perl 5 in terms of chapter
2 of the Camel Book: fundamental data types, variables and the
context and scoping of the language.

Reversing Regular Expressions
http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/05/01/expressions.html?wwwrrr_20010515.txt
There are some cases where searching a regular expression is
faster backwards. Pete Sergeant introduces us to sexegers,
regular expressions (regexes) operating in reverse.

Quick Start Guide with SOAP Part Two
http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/04/24/soap.html?wwwrrr_20010515.txt
Paul Kulchenko continues his SOAP::Lite guide and shows how to
build more complex SOAP servers.

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