[tpm] Good meeting tonight!

[Alex Beamish]

Hi All,

Thanks to the folks who attended -- Allan, sorry you had audio problems
again.

There was no talk scheduled, but we did manage to discuss a few things ..
- The Perl and Raku Conference (https://perlconference.us/tprc-2021-cloud/)
is happening the week after next .. should be yet another intellectually
intriguing week hearing about technical stuff.
- I mentioned the move of some user groups on IRC from Freenode to Libera,
and we discussed the choices of IRC versus Slack.
- Jim Keenan talked about the challenge of closing some of the BBC (blead
break cpan) tickets prior to the release of Perl 5.34.
- The discussion of 5.34 led to the question of Whatever Happened to Perl
7?, resulting in Jim giving an impromptu Lightning Talk on those
challenges. (Spoiler alert: Things get hairy when you're trying to figure
out where the problems are coming from when an eval is called within an
eval.)
- That discussion led to talk about subroutine signatures, and it sounded
like the only way to properly implement that feature would be to ditch
subroutine prototypes.

Anyway, we managed to fill up an hour pretty neatly -- I wanted to cut
things short to let anyway who wanted to go watch the Montreal/Toronto
hockey game (Toronto leads the series 3-1, and could send Montreal to the
golf courses with a win). After turning the game on, it became clear I had
no idea about the timing -- it was already 2-0 for Montreal at the
beginning of the second period, and Montreal scored again while I watched.
I turned the game off .. I think I know where this is going. :/

Our usual plan is to skip the June meeting (as we also have The Perl
Conference to keep us busy that month), so our next meeting will be
Thursday, July 29. We'll continue to meet virtually until it's safe to
drink beer together again.

Cheers,

Alex

-- 
Alex Beamish

Software Developer / https://ca.linkedin.com/in/alex-beamish-5111ba3
Speaker Wrangler / Toronto Perlmongers / http://to.pm.org/
Chair, Sponsorship Committee, TPF / https://www.perlfoundation.org/
Baritone, Operations Manager / Toronto Northern Lights, 2013 Champions /
www.northernlightschorus.com
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