[Thousand-Oaks-pm] Idea for discussion

[David Oswald]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Cynthia Brevik
<cynthia-brevik at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> It might be interesting and educational if the group members were to share
> at least some of the routines that we have home-rolled to perform those
> annoying, repetitive tasks such as dealing with dates, numbers etc.
>
> For example, I hate bringing in the sprintf baggage for simple string
> formatting, so I have a 'personal' .pm that contains a set of basic routines
> that I use all of the time. Granted, it certainly does not replace even a
> fraction of what sprint can do, but it does most of what *I* need to do
> regularly.
>
> My routines will no doubt seem trivial to the group, but I am willing to
> reveal them all, probably at least a dozen in all. This could then evolve
> into techniques for creating modules.
>
> If anyone is at all interested in participating in this topic, please
> respond to the list.

Sounds interesting to me.  It's this sort of thing that leads to new
idioms, new modules, and language progress.

It sounds like a combination of a presentation and an open discussion,
which seems like a common (and successful) format. :)

When would you be interested in presenting/moderating it?  Our "busy
schedule" probably has openings Nov 14, or Dec 12.

Unless a 2nd offer comes in to pre-empt me, I'm still open to doing a
discussion on learning from other languages (with examples from the
C++ world).  I'll avoid the urge to take too much time so that we fit
nicely into the typical Perl Mongers meeting duration.

Dave





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