Perl 7 Thoughts
Overall, I think the Perl 7 announcement is great news. I only have one small objection:…
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Connected Numbers
I was recently shown this puzzle: There are some things I found a little unclear about it. For example, should the following two circles count as being connected? There is a line between them, even if it’s interrupted by a circle. And what about these two circles? Are they connected? Again, there’s a diagonal line … Continued
Announcing Zydeco
Technically, I already announced it, but now I’ve renamed it. MooX::Pression is now called Zydeco. Moops had a memorable name, and I think the naming really helped it gain a following. MooX::Pression was just meh. So now it’s Zydeco. Zydeco…
MooX::Pression — now much faster
The test suite for MooX::Pression used to run in 79 seconds on my laptop. Now it’s at 10 seconds. And no, I didn’t cut out any tests — I switched from using Keyword::Declare to a combination of Keyword::Simple and PPR….
Increasing Perl’s Visibility
Perl has some really great community websites. But a drawback to this is that the Perl community is centred around a few domain names, which means that it isn’t as visible as some other languages. Most projects use github for…
Announcing MooX::Pression
Kind of like Moops but with less hacky parsing….
Type::Tiny 1.8.0 released
Type::Tiny 1.8.0 (1.008000) was released today. Type::Tiny 1.8.0 on MetaCPAN Type::Tiny website (NEW!) The new features are pretty minor. Most of the improvements are in documentation and testing. Totally rewritten manual/tutorial. Every issue on RT has been handled. Bigger test…
Feedback sought
I’ve been trying to update the docs for Type::Tiny and want feedback. Is there anything that’s hard to understand, or needs explaining more? New version Old version In particular, it’s Type::Tiny::Manual and the other pod pages in that namespace that…
Announcing MooX::Press
MooX::Press is a quick way of building a bunch of Moo roles and classes in one use statement. The most basic example would be: package MyApp { use MooX::Press class => [‘Foo’, ‘Bar’]; } my $thing1 = MyApp::Foo->new(); my…
Exploring Type::Tiny Part 7: Creating a Type Library with Type::Library
Type::Tiny is probably best known as a way of having Moose-like type constraints in Moo, but it can be used for so much more. This is the seventh in a series of posts showing other things you can use…
Exploring Type::Tiny Part 6: Some Interesting Type Libraries
Type::Tiny is probably best known as a way of having Moose-like type constraints in Moo, but it can be used for so much more. This is the sixth in a series of posts showing other things you can use…
Exploring Type::Tiny Part 5: match_on_type
Type::Tiny is probably best known as a way of having Moose-like type constraints in Moo, but it can be used for so much more. This is the fifth in a series of posts showing other things you can use…
Exploring Type::Tiny Part 4: Using Types::Standard as a Ref::Util-Like Library
Type::Tiny is probably best known as a way of having Moose-like type constraints in Moo, but it can be used for so much more. This is the third in a series of posts showing other things you can use…
Exploring Type::Tiny Part 3: Using Type::Tie
Type::Tiny is probably best known as a way of having Moose-like type constraints in Moo, but it can be used for so much more. This is the third in a series of posts showing other things you can use…
Exploring Type::Tiny Part 2: Using Type::Tiny with Moose
Type::Tiny is probably best known as a way of having Moose-like type constraints in Moo, but it can be used for so much more. This is the second in a series of posts showing other things you can use…
Exploring Type::Tiny Part 1: Using Type::Params for Validating Function Parameters
Type::Tiny is probably best known as a way of having Moose-like type constraints in Moo, but it can be used for so much more. This is the first in a series of posts showing other things you can use…
What is a Bool?
Perl allows pretty much any value to be evaluated in a boolean context: if ($something) { … } No matter what $something is, it will safely evaluate to either true or false. (With the exceptions of a few edge cases…
Because CPAN Needs More Templating Modules
Why learn a whole new language for templating when you already know a perfectly good one? This isn't the first module that allows you to embed Perl in your templates, but it's yet another one. Template::Compiled on MetaCPAN….
Type::Tiny 1.2.0 Released
So, Type::Tiny 1.2.0 (a.k.a. 1.002000 using Perlish decimals) is now available on CPAN. Highlights since 1.0.0:…
Type::Tiny 1.2 Coming Soon
Or 1.002000, because it uses Moo-like versioning. The Type::Tiny 1.1 (1.001_00x) development cycle has been going on since September 2014. Apparently I'm either very concerned about stability or very lazy. You can make up your own minds about that. But…
