Everyone was present this week. We devised a strategy to deal with smartmatch, starting with reverting its removal. A separate email with details will follow. We spent too much time talking about putting the apostrophe package separator behind a feature. That too will be outlined in a separate email. A github issue will follow. We want to revert the open undef patch, for a variety of reasons, such as breaking autodie. We decided the steps to handle this. [P5P posting of this summary ..read more

These are some answers to the Week 289, Task 2, of the Perl Weekly Challenge organized by Mohammad S. Anwar. Spoiler Alert: This weekly challenge deadline is due in a few days from now (on October 6, 2024, at 23:59). This blog post provides some solutions to this challenge. Please don’t read on if you intend to complete the challenge on your own. Task 2: Jumbled Letters An Internet legend dating back to at least 2001 goes something like this: Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist ..read more

These are some answers to the Week 289, Task 1, of the Perl Weekly Challenge organized by Mohammad S. Anwar. Spoiler Alert: This weekly challenge deadline is due in a few days from now (on October 6, 2024, at 23:59). This blog post provides some solutions to this challenge. Please don’t read on if you intend to complete the challenge on your own. Task 1: Third Maximum You are given an array of integers, @ints. Write a script to find the third distinct maximum in the given array. If third maximum doesn’t exist then return the maximum number. Example 1 Input: @ints = (5, 6, 4, 1) Output: 4 The ..read more

This year's London Perl and Raku Workshop is just 4 weeks away. We now have a pretty full schedule, so the call for presentations is now closed, however we might have room for one or two more talks depending circumstances on the day. If you really think you have talk you want to give then get in touch. As part of the workshop we would like to ask attendees if any are willing to volunteer for helping out on the day. This will likely include: Room monitoring and video equipment operation Registration of attendees General assistance of organisers and attendees We are probably looking for three ..read more

Read volume 1 here. In my last post, I talked about some of the big things TPF (The Perl Foundation) does. This time, I'll discuss some of the smaller stuff I've handled at TPF, often with help from others, and my misses along the way. My opinions are my own. White Camel Awards The White Camel Awards, started by brian d foy in 1999, were created to honor Perl community contributors, who, like ninjas, do all the hard work but never seem to get noticed. brian personally picked the winners each year until he stepped down in 2018. While many people contribute to the Perl community, their efforts o ..read more

We were all present this week: We rehashed the Perl version number discussion from last meeting now that we are all present. We will put together a document with our thoughts on this. We will create a GitHub issue to make apostrophe removal feature-guarded. Smartmatch (not so surprisingly) turns out to be too big to fail. Given its unique history, we are considering options for how to proceed with it in a more gradual way without giving up on the deprecation. Regarding open undef (GH #22490), we agreed that Perl should support undef as a value and not just as a literal for the filename (and w ..read more

Just Aristotle and Graham. The notes from this meeting were lost, but have been reconstructed from memory. We had a discussion about what future versioning (Perl 7) should look like. Discussed if we will need to make changes to apostrophe as package separator, and smartmatch removal, given the fallout they have had ..read more

I gave the talk Maximizing Performance and Cost Efficiency in the Cloud at the Perl and Raku conference this year. Among others, it used data from a benchmarking comparison I did among dozens of VMs on various cloud providers, and I had promised I'd post the full report. It took me quite a bit longer than expected due to both technical complications and some new releases I wanted to include that enlarged the scope, but here it is now. Should be useful if you want to get the best bang for buck on the cloud ..read more

This article on the Python Software Foundation inspired me to write this. Serving on the board of a foundation isn't all about glamorous meetings and fancy titles. Still, I'd like to share how I ended up here and what I've learned along the way. Opinions are my own. What Exactly is TPF? TPF stands for The Perl Foundation, a U.S.-based non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the Perl language through open discussion, collaboration, and, of course, code. TPF got its start around 2001 when Perl was super popular. The organization was originally needed to run a conference; because apparent ..read more

These are some answers to the Week 288, Task 1, of the Perl Weekly Challenge organized by Mohammad S. Anwar. Spoiler Alert: This weekly challenge deadline is due in a few days from now (on September 29, 2024, at 23:59). This blog post provides some solutions to this challenge. Please don’t read on if you intend to complete the challenge on your own. Task 1: Closest Palindrome You are given a string, $str, which is an integer. Write a script to find out the closest palindrome, not including itself. If there are more than one then return the smallest. The closest is defined as the absolute diff ..read more