Phoenix.pm: Meeting 11/2/2000

Michael Dearman mdearman at inficad.com
Sat Oct 28 00:39:08 CDT 2000


Doug Miles wrote:
> 
> We'll be having a Phoenix.pm meeting Thursday, November 2nd at 7:00PM.
> It will be held at Bowne, which is located at 1500 N. Central Avenue,
> which is on the Southwest corner of Central and McDowell.  The parking
> lot is gated, so just press the button on the intercom, and tell the
> receptionist that you are there for the Perl meeting.  Park in the lot
> that is straight ahead from the entrance on the South side of McDowell.
> Park in any uncovered, non-reserved space.  Proceed to the main lobby,
> which is on the Northeast side of the parking lot.
> 
> Scott Walters will be presenting an incremental backup program he
> recently wrote.  Topics include:
> 
> -drudgery
> -function prototyping tricks
> -parsing command line arguments
> -array slices to access stat, localtime etc data without lots of clutter
> vars

I definitely want to hear someone verbalize on this!
> -chaining together map {}'s and join()'s and split()'s etc

> -when Perl *needs* parens to disambiguate and minimalizing code you
>  wish would just go away
> -File::Find.pm
> -Archive::Tar.pm
> -references/symbol table as a means to save typing
> -__DATA__
> -SCSI tape drives

Sounds great. Save me an aisle seat.
Mike D.



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