[Fleet-pm] Meeting tomorrow

James Raspass jraspass at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 06:34:23 PST 2016


Correction that was my fork of his module, upstream is here
https://github.com/lancew/ScientistP6/blob/master/lib/Scientist.pm

Which shows cool usage of a Duration object, with infinite precision, rats
ftw.

On 8 March 2016 at 14:31, James Raspass <jraspass at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tomorrow evening is another social meeting for Fleet PM in the station.
>
> Lance has started to learn Perl6 and thanks to him writing scientist in
> both 5 & 6 we can actually compare how simpler some stuff in Perl 6 is. For
> example is_deeply from perl 5 is a builtin called eqv, which for the
> inverse can be written as $foo !eqv $bar. See
> https://github.com/JRaspass/ScientistP6/blob/master/lib/Scientist.pm
>
> Back in perl 5 land, today I was bitten by indirect object syntax with a
> block allowing code that called List::Util's any (but not import it) to
> compile but error at runtime, see
> http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/03/msg234833.html
> for more info on this historic wart.
>
> Anyways, hope to see you there, invite anyone you can!
>
> James
>
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