Ack! I went by my notes late at night and forgot to credit merlyn! Shame on me. If it wasn't for merlyn, Damian would probably not of been speaking last night at OGI where merlyn teaches courses. Damian is having a couple days of courses there and if I had the cash, I would be in class right now. My plan of getting someone to hire me for the rest of the week and pay for training just didn't work.

  • use modules not on our system.
    • We might have a feature that will allow one to use a module that's not installed and have it downloaded from the CPAN, unpacked, compiled (if necessary) and installed when needed.

    I'd like the option of having that functionality, but I would hate for it to be default behaviour. It's like having CPAN automatically upgrade your Perl.

    Though that reminds me that Perl6 will have the ability to have different versions of the same module on your system. Which would make upgrading nervousness not quite so scary. Though, it also sounded like Perl6 will be better at DWIM than before as well. Such lines as <code> system("ls") || die "It didn't work\n";<code> will actually work as "expected".

    In reply to Re: (Ovid - merlyn should get credit, too) Re: Damian Conway Talk from July 31, 2001 by lemming
    in thread Damian Conway Talk from July 31, 2001 by lemming

    Title:
    Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
    and:  <code> code here </code>
    to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.