So I am looking around in perlvar and I learn that if you preface a scalar variable name with an underscore it will by default be in the main package...wow, I think. I want to try that:

perl -e 'package Nether; our $val = 2000; my $_nonesuch = 3000;  packa
+ge main; print __PACKAGE__ . qq~\t~ . $main::_nonesuch;'
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Makes: main

What? ...what happened by my value? So I take away the package portion:

perl -e 'package Nether; our $val = 2000; my $_nonesuch = 3000;  packa
+ge main; print __PACKAGE__ . qq~\t~ . $_nonesuch;'
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main 3000

As an aside I should mention why I keep posting these cryptic things about basic Perl functionality. I am researching why people run into problems with Perl and give up. The target audience (for now) includes project management and product owners who have enough familiarity with the language to recommend its use but want to simultaneously reduce the backlash that might come from doing so.

Acme::MetaSyntactic (script/ is typical)
EXE_FILES: script/meta script/metafy

Pod::Parser
EXE_FILES: scripts/podselect

CGI-Kwiki
EXE_FILES: inc/SCRIPTS/kwiki-install

GD
EXE_FILES: bdf_scripts/bdf2gdfont.pl

App::FatPacker (bin/ is typical too)
EXE_FILES: bin/fatpack

Despite all that, everything listed as EXE_FILES ends up in the same directory, specified (on my system) by 12 %Config variables with the same exact value as $Config{bin}:

/Users/u/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.42.0/bin

My question is this: do these 12 Config variables have the same value on all Perl installations? I guess there are actually 14 of these same vars, but the vendor values are blank on my system.

Here's a little script to check. I'd like to know if these can be different values so I know which one(s) to use. Thanks in advance.

#!/usr/bin/perl -l
# Check if all the bin and script dirs in %Config are the same.

use strict;
use warnings;
use Config;

@_ = qw/bin
binexp
initialinstalllocation
installbin
installscript
installsitebin
installsitescript
scriptdir
scriptdirexp
sitebin
sitebinexp
sitescript
sitescriptexp
vendorbin    
vendorbinexp/;

printf "%-24s  %-100s\n", $_, $Config{$_} for @_;
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bin                       /Users/u/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.42.0/bin                                                    
binexp                    /Users/u/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.42.0/bin                                                    
initialinstalllocation    /Users/u/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.42.0/bin                                                    
installbin                /Users/u/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.42.0/bin                                                    
installscript             /Users/u/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.42.0/bin                                                    
installsitebin            /Users/u/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.42.0/bin                                                    
installsitescript         /Users/u/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.42.0/bin                                                    
scriptdir                 /Users/u/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.42.0/bin                                                    
scriptdirexp              /Users/u/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.42.0/bin                                                    
sitebin                   /Users/u/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.42.0/bin                                                    
sitebinexp                /Users/u/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.42.0/bin                                                    
sitescript                /Users/u/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.42.0/bin                                                    
sitescriptexp             /Users/u/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.42.0/bin                                                    
vendorbin                                                                                                                     
vendorbinexp                                            

Following up on Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net to redirect to Perlmonks.org

Thanks to the support of Leo Lapworth, Olaf Alders, and Robert from Perl NOC, this site is now served from behind the Fastly CDN. The IP addresses have changed to Fastly IP addresses.

The .com and .net domains redirect to perlmonks.org, to improve the caching of the pages.

If you access the site logged in, you should see no difference, as the pages pass through directly to the main machines.
Anonymous access should also be mostly unchanged except for AI scrapers.

If you notice any adverse changes, please post a reply here.

*Credit on our side goes to the irreplaceable Co-rion.

As discussed in Moving the site behind a CDN, we will soonish move forward with moving the site behind Fastly. In conjunction, the domains perlmonks.com and perlmonks.net will also redirect to perlmonks.org, to improve cache hit rate.

At least during the move the css.* domain will be unavailable, but as far as I understand the setup, we can later make css.perlmonks.org work again, especially for logged-in users.

For the time being, you can update your bookmarks to perlmonks.org and save the login cookies for that domain.

As for the timeline, the work is done by volunteers. I expect the DNS update and HTTP redirects to happen sometime next week.