in reply to Enlightenment and Frustration

"...I am in my mid-40s..."
Ha! Whipper snapper! I remember my mid-40s as if they were yesterday. Sadly, I can't remember a thing about yesterday. All I can tell you is, well, it gets worse. Worser and grimmer. Eyes, teeth, hair.... pah! who needs all that stuff. Yup, it's all downhill from now on. :-)

How are you getting on with putting a hash that maps IAU abbreviations for constellation names to their full names into a module? That sounds very interesting. Have a stab and show us how you get on.

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Re^2: Enlightenment and Frustration
by chexmix (Hermit) on Apr 26, 2007 at 18:42 UTC
    First, many thanks to all who have replied so far - your collective encouragement really is very heartening. :^)

    Second, on that constellation names job ... it didn't, or hasn't yet, become a module as such, but it did act as an important step to my better understanding what packages and modules really were.

    The short version is it didn't need to be a module for what I wanted to do - I just pulled it in as a text file and created the needed hash programmatically rather than by hard coding it in - for me, at my level, a real step up.

    Now, whether this + other astro info could become a useful module one day ... I hope so. I just started dipping into module creation a few days ago. I'll definitely post progress ...

    And I got much clearer on the nature of packages with the help of some monks here and from Damian Conway's OOPerl book. GB

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Re^2: Enlightenment and Frustration
by stonecolddevin (Parson) on Apr 27, 2007 at 02:53 UTC

    The most wonderful thing about senility is you make new friends every day :-)

    meh.
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