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Finding the value of -I and -M command line switches

Anonymous Monk — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:49:59 +0000

Let's say you wrote a module that's invoked from the command line to start a long running process. For some reason you want to restart the process on specific occasions and need to reconstruct the ...

Advice for name for new module to lookup data via DNS service

thogard — Tue, 19 May 2026 03:03:50 +0000

I found that the some of the people from APNIC have a new tool using DNS to look up ASN details for any IP address. So looking up info about an ip address or dns A record gives details ou...

Re: Implicit references? module -> feature -> pragma -> "Perl8" ?

tobyink — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:33:06 +0000

The alternative is to adopt a programming style where array and hash variables are rarely used. # Not this... my @items = qw( banana orange banana apple ); my %counts = count_ite...

Re: Finding the value of -I and -M command line switches

tobyink — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:08:54 +0000

Devel::PL_origargv Hire me at Toby Ink Ltd...

Re^2: The cognitive load of generated code

Corion — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:17:52 +0000

... this feels a bit like a second Eternal September, except that it is not humans....

Re: The cognitive load of generated code

hv — Thu, 21 May 2026 03:37:50 +0000

then fed it back into the model asking it to explain why its code sucks I am urgently looking forward to the time that the AI models I get to interact with are designed to learn...

Re^4: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net now redirect to Perlmonks.org

Corion — Tue, 19 May 2026 08:39:38 +0000

Yes - the first step was a really coarse approach, basically caching all GET requests. Refining the access to some of the URLs is on the list, as we get more familiar with the Fastly / Varni...

Re^3: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net now redirect to Perlmonks.org

hippo — Tue, 19 May 2026 08:35:50 +0000

Tempting though it is, I would not go making special exceptions for widely-used user agent strings like this. You'll be back to square one in no time. The other option sounds good. I don'...

Re^2: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net now redirect to Perlmonks.org

Corion — Tue, 19 May 2026 08:06:09 +0000

Yes, that's mildly expected - it also affects mini-cb60 for example. The reason is that we currently serve cached content to all anonymous GET requests. The solution I see for this i...

Re: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net now redirect to Perlmonks.org

hippo — Tue, 19 May 2026 08:02:40 +0000

Just in case it has not been noticed - this change appears to have locked out the chatterbot. last hour of cb has been empty since the switch-over. ...

Re^2: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net now redirect to Perlmonks.org

Corion — Tue, 19 May 2026 07:39:57 +0000

Yes. For Anonymous Monk, all pages are cached for 1 day. This is the easy solution while we look at differentiating anonymous human access from anonymous scrapers. When the dust has settl...

Re: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net now redirect to Perlmonks.org

Anonymous Monk — Tue, 19 May 2026 07:36:24 +0000

Have you noticed that the CDN is serving up stale pages to Anonymous Monk? When I post a reply it doesn't show up on Newest Nodes or Recent Threads or anywhere else. I can see all the replies via "pri...

Re^3: The cognitive load of generated code

Anonymous Monk — Tue, 19 May 2026 07:13:25 +0000

I see what you mean. The lack of parentheses on length and especially int is ambiguous. I remember having to test int once to see if something like int $a / 2 means int($a) / 2 or ...

Re: Advice for name for new module to lookup data via DNS service

eyepopslikeamosquito — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:17:55 +0000

G'day thogard and welcome to the monastery! I see you are from Melbourne. Do you know the famous Melbournian Perl monk kcott? (who I hope will reply to your question) ...

Re^2: The cognitive load of generated code

ikegami — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:21:02 +0000

Worse, it's shortened to empty list. Returning an empty list from a sub expected to return a scalar can have very weird effects. length $f is awful too. foo $f norma...

thogard

thogard — Tue, 19 May 2026 02:13:41 +0000

Long term perl user since the very early days of perl. Still have code in production that moved from perl 4....