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in reply to Re: Should there be a book titled "How-To be a Perl Monk" ?
in thread Should there be a book titled "How-To be a Perl Monk" ?

Or am I missing something :) ?
Where's the love?
shell> perldoc -f stat | tail S_ISBLK($mode) S_ISCHR($mode) S_ISFIFO($mode) S_ISSOCK($mode) # No direct -X operator counterpart, but for the first one # the -g operator is often equivalent. The ENFMT stands for # record flocking enforcement, a platform-dependent feature. S_ISENFMT($mode) S_ISWHT($mode) See your native chmod(2) and stat(2) documentation for more details about the S_* constants.
perldoc would like to remind the perl user that it loves
each and every one of you!

shell>

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Re: Re: Re: Should there be a book titled "How-To be a Perl Monk" ?
by zakb (Pilgrim) on Mar 18, 2003 at 16:07 UTC

    To be fair, shirkdog_perl has a point. The tutorials do have some very useful information.

    Perhaps HTML versions of the tutorials should be generated on a nightly or weekly basis and made available as a zip or tar.gz file. Might save some bandwidth?

    shirkdog, you may also want to invest in the Perl Cookbook, it has many useful snippets.

      I have the perl coobook on CDrom, it did not have exactly what I was looking for. That is where I see added-value to a Perl Monk cookbook. Where things have moved beyond the Perl cookbook, infact, when is a second edition coming out for the cookbook. That would be a must have Perl Book.
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Re: Re: Re: Should there be a book titled "How-To be a Perl Monk" ?
by Nkuvu (Priest) on Mar 18, 2003 at 16:13 UTC

    *snif* My perldoc doesn't love me. (I'm missing that last line...)

      You'll have to install the Love::Boat module from CPAN.

      use more 'love' in your scripts to enhance the following perl functions:

      # Initialization: if (accept $me, $spouse) { bind $me, $spouse; bind $spouse, $me; bless $spouse; bless $me; } # Happy marriage! # to talk to him/her print $spouse crypt($message); # use in conjunction with the new uncrypt function # to understand what he/she says: $message = uncrypt(<$spouse>); die $error; # results in # Oh no! So sorry, dear! I completely messed up line 15 # in module yourfile.pl. # It's all my fault: $error @cupboard = sort @clothes; # automatically remove dirty underwear and put them # in @laundry

      The previously unsupervised garbage collection will now require your attention by presenting you one of the following questions:

      "Honey, can you bring the trash outside?" (Y)es/(N)o "Can you _please_ clean your desk?" (Y)es/(N)o

      An automatic END-block will be inserted:

      END { print "Byebye, sweetheart!\n"; # en-US locale print "Hasta la vista, baby!\n"; # en-ARNI locale }

      The following commands will be disabled:

      study $scalar; # aborts with error message: "Cannot study, too much distraction!" use strict; # aborts with error message: "I'm not one of _those_! # $gender_specific_noun " warn $message; # overridden by the system; used to notify you of # upcoming birthday, wedding anniversary etc.