[HRPM] topics poll.

[Jeff Duffy]

On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 chicks at chicks.net wrote:


 Request #1: Integrating Perl and Java.

 I would like to see a discussion of various techniques to manage exception / error
handling in Perl, along with a few nifty tricks to minimize the number of expensive eval()
calls. 

> 	XML

 Advanced XML: writing validating parsers, and the DTDs that accompany them.

> 	advanced data structures

 How about a talk on data structure concepts relating to design decisions? For instance,
benefits/disavantages to building hash tables in memory vice dbm files on disk? What about
coverage of building sorting algorithms when qsort (the default) doesn't turn out to be the
best choice?

> 	OOP

 I think a talk on the life-cycle of an object would be valuable, from instantiation to
destruction, using some of the more esoteric Perl functions (like AUTOLOAD, DESTROY, etc).

 I would also like to see good coverage of how to exploit tie() in an OO environment to
minimize object complexity for the end user.

> 	regular expressions

 I think a discussion on regex efficiency issues would be valuable, particularly on how to
best 'narrow down' your patterns to effect the shortest correct match, and what sort of
things to avoid.

 Jeff