Posted on May 18, 2019. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: author:grinnz, cpan:dist-zilla, cpan:dist-zilla-starter, perl, r/perl, reddit |
Dist::Zilla::Starter – Guide to getting started with Dist::Zilla I’ve been trying to put together this guide for a while, as a modern introduction to the intentions and inner workings of Dist::Zilla, there isn’t much out there that really tells you how it works and why. Dist::Zilla::Starter @ MetaCPAN
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on Dist::Zilla::Starter – Guide to getting started with Dist::Zilla )Posted on July 24, 2018. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: author:david.farrell, perl, r/perl, reddit, xs |
Patching Perl: loading modules that return false If you’ve been programming Perl for a while, you’ve probably run into this exception: Foo.pm did not return a true value. This is a peculiar quirk of the require function: modules must return a true value else Perl interprets it as a failure via r/perl [reddit]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on Patching Perl: loading modules that return false )Posted on April 14, 2018. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: author:grinnz, cpan, perl, r/perl, reddit, versioning |
A Guide to Versions in Perl Version numbers in Perl are very important; they allow orderly updating and maintenance of modules and distributions across the CPAN, and allow CPAN modules and consumers to require the versions of modules with the bugfixes or features they need. However, in this context, they are also a very unique […]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on A Guide to Versions in Perl )Posted on October 21, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: cpan:class-method-modifiers, cpan:memoize, cpan:moose, cpan:moose-manual-methodmodifiers, decorators, perl, r/perl, reddit |
Fixing Legacy Perl Functions With Decorators Function decorators give us a way to modify a function’s behaviour without changing its source. This is useful in changing the behaviour of complex or legacy functions that you don’t want to touch. Although perl does not have a built-in syntax for creating or using decorators, typeglob manipulations are […]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on Fixing Legacy Perl Functions With Decorators )Posted on August 9, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: author:david.farrell, git, git-bisect, perl, r/perl, reddit |
Git bisect and Perl git bisect run treats certain exit values specially: 125 means the code cannot be tested, and 128 or higher will abort the bisect process. If Perl throws an exception it exits with 255 (instead of 0 for a pass and 1 for a test fail), aborting the bisect altogether. To fix […]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on Git bisect and Perl )Posted on May 4, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: author:david.farrell, c, cpan:xs-tutorial, meta, perl, r/perl, reddit, xs |
Part 1: Getting started with XS Part 2: Writing your own XS functions Part 3: XS utility routines that are good to know eXtendable Subroutines (XS) are subroutines written in C that are callable from Perl code. There are two common reasons you’d want to use XS: there is a C library you’d like to […]
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