Driven by a previous post of mine, I have started going through Martin Fowler's Refactoring book and I'm rewriting his Java refactoring examples in Perl. I know just enough about Java to accomplish this, but not enough that I really get Fowler's concepts unless I actually practice it like this. I am also building my test-driven development skills by writing unit tests for the initial implementation to check for regression.

I would like to both share my converted examples and my thoughts on Fowler's ideas and look for additional input from the Perl community. Rather than set up my own blog for these purposes, I'd like to post these to Meditations here on PerlMonks unless I get resistance to the idea. I'm thinking I'll be able to get around to a couple a month, so it wouldn't be much in the way of volume.

I already have a few of the examples complete, so I'm hoping to post my first example in the next couple of days.

perl -e 'split//,q{john hurl, pest caretaker}and(map{print @_[$_]}(joi
+n(q{},map{sprintf(qq{%010u},$_)}(2**2*307*4993,5*101*641*5261,7*59*79
+*36997,13*17*71*45131,3**2*67*89*167*181))=~/\d{2}/g));'
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