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.

  1. perldelta 5.6.1 to 5.8.8
  2. attributes pragma
  3. constant pragma
  4. perlsub
  5. Attribute::Handlers
  6. Class::Accessor
  7. DBIx::Class
  8. Exception::Class
  9. List::Util
  10. 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. :-)

In reply to Top 10 things to read when your flight is canceled by bobf

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