user moritz  [http://perlgeek.de/|Moritz] currently lives Germany, loves perl and especially [http://perl6.org/|Perl 6]. <p>The picture shows Eilean Donan Castle in Scotland, the picture was taken during a pleasant year of... "studying" in [http://moritz.faui2k3.org/en/gallery/scotland/|Scotland]. <p>If you're curious, [http://moritz.faui2k3.org/images/ich4.jpg|here's a picture of me]. <h2>CPAN</h2> My first module: [dist://Math::Expression::Evaluator]. <p>Then came [dist://Perl6::Gather::Take], which is the only lazy gather/take implementation on CPAN, but doesn't yet meet my standards (just read the caveats...). <p>[mod://Perl6::Str] is the cool new kid on the block, which should and would a be a revolution in the way we deal with strings, if it weren't so much slower than perl 5's built-in string handling. <p>[mod://Encode::Repair] does what the name suggests it does, but it doesn't do magic or guessing, just deterministic, solid work. <p>There is another [id://645771|module that I've wanted to work on for ages], and which I'll probably name <c>Math::Model</c>. Thanks to [mr_mischief] for helping me finding a name. Now [https://github.com/moritz/Math-Model/|implemented in Perl 6]. <h2>Perl 6</h2> <p>Perl 6 hacking and [http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-6/|blogging] takes up a significant of my free time. I also published some articles about Perl 6 in the German [http://www.heise.de/ix/|iX magazine]. <p>I regularly contribute to the Perl 6 test suite, and to [http://www.rakudo.org/|Rakudo] (both test infrastructure and compiler). <p>Currently I'm running (and as needed, developing) the [http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/today|IRC logs for #perl6]. <h2>Weird Perl 5 Stuff</h2> <p>Did you know that there can be a space after the sigil of a variable? <code> $ perl -wle 'my $x = 3; print $ x; print "$ { x }"' 3 3 </code> <p>Or that you can define subs with numeric names? <code> $ perl -wle 'sub 4 { print "yes" }' Illegal declaration of anonymous subroutine at -e line 1. $ # well, not like that. But it *is* possible: $ perl -lwe '*4 = sub { print "yes" }; 4->()' yes </code> <p>Oh, and [http://use.perl.org/~nicholas/journal/39741|some funny fossils] lurk behind dark corners - sigils are optional in some cases: <code> $ perl -le 'push a, 2, 3; print @a' 23 </code> <p>Did you know about the [doc://reset] built-in function? Funny thing, if you ask me ;) <p>A funny way to call code refs: <code> $ perl -wE 'use strict; my $f = sub { say qq(lol WTF?)}; 1->$f;' lol WTF? </code> <h2>Other Perl Resources</h2> <p>The [http://www.perl-community.de/|German Perl Community] is quite helpful. <p>I'm a member of [http://perlmongers.de/?ErlangenPM|Erlangen.pm]. 2013-06-19 16:20:32 63004 632816 633572 6202 Erlangen, Germany Europe/London 80 on