[oak perl] Minitalks?

[George Woolley]

On Wednesday 08 September 2004 4:44 pm, Steve Fink wrote:
> George Woolley wrote:
> > The theme of the September meeting
> > (oh my, in only 6 days on Sept. 14)
> > is Hashes.
> >
> > Anyone up for giving a very short talk
> > having something to do with hashes.
> > By very short talk,
> > I mean lightning talk length or shorter.
> > Say 0 to 5 minutes.
> > That would be much appreciated.
>
> I could give a short talk on abusing tied hashes to conveniently call
> functions during interpolation. It's kind of useful for things like
>
>   print "Search for $Google{'angry ants with bad breath'} please.\n";
>
> producing
>
>   Search for http://www.google.com/search?q=angry+ants+with+bad+breath
> please.
>
> I wrote up a small module to make it easy do things like this a while
> back, I could dig it up and talk about it.

Steve,
Excellent! 

You're on.

George