TrAdEz meets with God

[tradez]

Fellow Monks, I have been graced by the evil empire, my employer, with a chance at some training that I am actually enjoying. As I type this, Tom Christiansen (GOD) is typing code to explain and example in his training course for 5 of us at TCPC. Very amazing stuff. My question for you all, is that he claims to be able to answer ANY question, and I would like to see what the worst you can come up with is. He covers all the way up through 5.8 and works with Wall on all future revisions as well as back to the 0th day of Perl 1. So how's that for a scope. Hit me up and tomorrow ill unleash what PerlMonk fury we have.

UPDATE, check out my info page, new pic of me and god, and I am goofy

[demerphq]

Q: What is your current position on my $class=ref($self) || $self;

Q: What is your current position on type checking in subroutines? Ie, is ref($obj) eq 'TYPE' correct or not? What about Scalar::Util::reftype() and or UNIVERSAL::isa() or UNIVERSAL::can()?

Q: Is Inheritance really useful in perl or is containment an easier strategy?

Q: Do you think AUTOLOAD is a viable strategy for dynamic accessor generation in production enviornments?

[tradez]

Well real quick, AUTOLOAD is a brief section in his live presentation that you can view from typing perldoc perltoot and perltooc. The way he uses it, it definately enhances efficiency.

[tilly]

If you're eventually going to install all of the autoloaded methods anyways, it is better to install all of them up front when you load your module (by assigning to the typeglob if need be) rather than lazily installing them later (throwing away the method cache every time you do it).

Furthermore using AUTOLOAD does not play well with UNIVERSAL::can or multiple inheritance.

[diotalevi]

You should be asking questions useful to your employer, not the hardest trivia perlmonks can produce. This is your employer's dime. Don't waste it.

[mitd]

You have obviously never heard of Mitd's famous formula for Employer paid training, conferences, retreats, parties and beer drinking contests. Well here it is proven inside and outside the lab.

1. Employer sends Employee to training.
2. Employee gets answers to questions with no regard to Employers wants or needs.
3. Employee returns to work full of new knowledge.
4. Employee finds ways to sneak new knowledge into his daily work creating huge jumps in productivity.
5. Employer reaps the benifits of his hugly profitable business and hires big name Management Consulting Firm who suggest outsorcing all work to Bangalore.
BTW, Tradez. Ask Tom if it is true that it is Randal that leaves in a pineapple under the sea?

[tye]

Q: If you want to find the directory that this script ($0) is in, is there ever any point in searching $ENV{PATH} ?

A: No.

Q: So why does FindBin *still* do that?

A: Because avoiding that would make the module seem almost silly and render the entire "Bugs" section invalid ?

No, I'm not sure why I offered these questions here. (:

[dimar]

Please, I beg you, I beseech you, I adjure most earnestly with suppliant provestation, Please ask him why his article on prototypes at o'reilly has been *invisible* for at least a year or more with no one able to explain why.

If that doesn't stump him, then it must be me, in need of knowing the secret handshake or something. ... but I betcha a dollar he won't know.

[bart]

Age. O'Reilly most likely has decided it is too old to matter any more. It used to be available on CPAN also, but if it is even there any more, you'll have to dig really deep. (Unfortunately it's not the time now to check it out, with the current status search.cpan.org is in.)

Anyway, with a little of Googling around, you can find plenty of mirrors, like here.

I do share your sentiments, though, IMO it is a classic. I'm actually planning on building a site with a collection of such perl related classic articles, before they drop off the next completely. Like this one virtually has.

[demerphq]

Even better would be to ask him if he minds if PerlMonks would host it as well.... Not to mention any of his other papers that O'Reilly has taken down.

[Limbic~Region]

tradez,
He will likely know the answer, but ask him what the dog had in its mouth. In case anyone does know where this reference comes from - Larry mentions this in the source code - see stab.c

[Cody Pendant]

Is it a "|"?

[Eyck]

I don't get it, there are tons of unanswerable questions ( well, besides "I don't know" answer..)

You can even scan through SoPW and you'll find lots of questions without answers

Things like - how to pack Gtk-based perl script with PAR ( doesn't work, nobody works on it, there are few known bugs left to be fixed )

or maybe how to connect to TLS-enabled ftp servers with perl ( you've got to roll your own client (or get one from me;), or use c/c++ library like ftplibpp )

or how to expose your SOAP-based service to C#/Delphi/ other static langs ( requires lot's of knowledge of WSDL and manual tweaking and writing your own WSDL description )

[BUU]

Ask him how the hell do you capture the STDOUT from the ->run() method in Perl.pm. Damn it.

[Spidy]

Maybe ask him where babies come from?

[tradez]

Well he actually says there is a module Perl::Stork that is due out in Perl 6. So now perl will officially be able to do everything on earth, in a one liner ;).

[SpanishInquisition]

Ask him how Perl6 is going to implement veeblefritzers! :)

[sfink]

Ask him how to make perldoc output unformatted POD. Or ask him what the best command-line options would be if you wanted to alias man to perldoc.

More generally, ask him any question about how to use perldoc.

Just don't tell him who put you up to it, please.

[Anonymous Monk]

[perldoc --help] says the -u option will display unformatted POD. A quick spot check (with [perldoc -u fields] and [perldoc -u -f glob]) seems to work.

[MTOakey]

Lowly peasent here, I've got one for you all -> get nms-Formmail to also append an already existing .csv file allowing for any order of my choosing for the data fields and also the possibility of a 'comma' and/or 'carriage return' or '!',@,#,$,%,&,(,),or newline in the fields erasing any trailing space or 'comma' associated with the LAST field and set the .csv up for a newline or 'row' of data after each 'form' submission, so when opened up in a spreadsheet all is nice rows of useful data nicely seperated in all the nice cells. Nice? I am not worthy, [e-mail]

[Ytrew]

Ask him what it's like to be an A.I. :-)

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Ytrew