My connecting flight was canceled last night. I was too tired to code anything so I decided to peruse perldoc - something I should do more often. The time flew by (pun intended) and I learned a few things. In fact, it was one of the more productive and enjoyable layovers that I have experienced (except for the fact that all of the restaurants were closed).
Here is what I read*. I started with the perldeltas (I never reviewed them after upgrading from 5.6.1 to 5.8.8), then learned about attributes, and then browsed through my installed modules.
- perldelta 5.6.1 to 5.8.8
- attributes pragma
- constant pragma
- perlsub
- Attribute::Handlers
- Class::Accessor
- DBIx::Class
- Exception::Class
- List::Util
- Params::Validate
That's all I had time to read (although I skimmed many others). Overall, it was a nice combination of reviewing old material and learning new material.
This got me thinking: what do other monks do during layovers? If you had a couple of spare hours, what would you read?
*Update: Please note that the inclusion and ordering of the items above are not a measure of relative importantance, they are simply the 10 items that I spent the most time on after starting from the top of the table of contents. :-)