[roch-pm] [Fwd: Perl.com Newsletter: Changing Hash Behavior with tie]

Brian Mathis bmathis at directedge.com
Sat Sep 8 11:42:52 CDT 2001


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Hello, world!

This is Simon Cozens, managing editor of www.perl.com, here to
bring you the week's news and developments both in the Perl world
and on our own site.

* Perl at large.

Have you recovered from the conference season? How about a nice
relaxing cruise in the Eastern Caribbean? How about a nice relaxing
cruise in the Eastern Caribbean that's also a Perl conference? The
Perl Whirl is back and taking bookings for next January's jaunt. As
usual, all the Perl gurus will be there: amongst others, Tim Bunce,
Damian Conway, Mark-Jason Dominus, Randal Schwartz, Lincoln Stein,
Nat Torkington, and Larry Wall. Try swinging that one past your
boss - and if you manage, let me know how you did it.

     http://www.geekcruises.com/pdf/PerlWhirl_02.pdf
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The latest alpha of MacPerl is out. MacPerl 5.6.1a5 is going to be
the last alpha before MacPerl 5.6.1 goes into beta. Almost all of
the Mac:: extensions now work, and Matthias Neeracher has added a
new, more Mac-like error reporting system. As usual, you don't have
to buy any software to build it; just look at the build instructions
on the web site.

     http://dev.macperl.org/
     http://dev.macperl.org/?build

Michael Schwern, of whom more later, has released the first SDK in
the Perl SDK Project. These SDKs are meant to be tarballs full of
recommended Perl module goodies, and this first one is all about
testing. There are three different modules to help you build in
tests to your code, and two tutorials about how to use the modules
and write good test suites. As usual, it's all on CPAN:

     http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Test/Test-SDK-0.02.tar.gz
     mail:perl-sdk-subscribe at perl.org

* What's new on perl.com

This week's perl5-porters summary is dominated by Michael Schwern
and his campaign to improve the test coverage of the Perl core. He
patched quite a few files this week, and also started some other
pretty interesting threads. You can read all about it at:

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/p5pdigest/20010903.html

Bryan Warnock's fantastic work with the Perl 6 summary continues.
This week, he tells us about the latest in the never-ending garbage
collection/finalization debate, the status of Parrot, whether or
not @_ should be passed implicitly and many other things from the
lists.

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/09/p6pdigest/20010901.html

Maybe it's against the Perl programmers nature to look forward to
using a tie, but Dave Cross certainly does. In this week's feature
article, he explains how to use tying to make your variables do
strange, interesting and occasionally useful things.

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/09/04/tiedhash.html

Enjoy,
SC

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Choosing a Templating System
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