I’ve just found a number of subroutines defined this way in the code that I’m working on.
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sub do_something () { my $parameter = shift; ... } |
I discovered the problem because I started getting errors about “too many parameters”. I knew what the problem was (the empty prototype) but it took a couple of minutes of head-scratching before I realised why it had […]
I’m still thinking about adding stuff to this blog. I’d like to add some web feeds to the sidebar. In particular, I’d like a feed of my CPAN uploads. I don’t expect it to be a particularly busy feed (although having such blatant evidence of my laziness might galvanise me into being a bit more […]
Right. I think I might have got this cracked now. Here’s some Perl code.
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#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; print "Hello World\n"; |
That’s pretty cool, isn’t it. I wonder what it’ll look like in the web feed. I’ll try to feed my fixes back to the author of the plugin.
One of the nice things about moving away from use.perl to your own site is that you can install whatever toys you want. I’ll eventually get round to posting code on this blog. And when I do it would be nice if it had some nice syntax highlighting. I could, of course, write my own […]
I think I’ve now worked out all of the things that I’m doing at YAPC::Europe this year. It’s turned into quite a list. The big news is that I’m giving an “Introductory Perl” training course over the weekend before the conference. One of the themes of the conference is to get more people involved in […]
