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Next German PM Online Meeting in (cough) 30 minutes.
Announcement:
Hallo Perlmongers aus den deutschsprachigem Raum,
Heute, am Dienstag, den 4. August 2020, um 19:30 Uhr ist German-PM Online-Treffen im Jitsi.
Dank Corona wurde das Online-Treffen mehrfach in Erlangen und Frankfurt ausprobiert. Der Wunsch wurde geäußert, das online neben den Treffen vor Ort weiterzuführen.
Nimm an der Besprechung teil:
https://meet.jit.si/German-PM
I'm not the organizer, but I'll use this thread for future announcements.
Just noticed that Strawberry Perl-5.30.3 is now available.
The date given there is 2020-07-13, but I know it wasn't available earlier today. (Looks like the date is the date that perl was built - not the date at which the distro became available.)
Hopefully, that indicates that 5.32.0 might not be too far away.
Actually, I build my own perls on Windows and therefore don't rely on the Strawberry project for perl. It's still a very handy reference for me, but.
And I do look forward to using the updated gcc compiler that usually accompanies new Strawberry Perl major releases.
Since the mingw-w64 project stopped providing recent builds of gcc (as of a couple of years ago), I've come to rely on Strawberry for my gcc upgrades.
Anyway ... just thought it was worth mentioning ... and looking forward to a 5.32.0 release soon, with (fingers crossed) gcc-9 or gcc-10.
If you use Module::AutoLoad, consider switching to something else. The module was removed from CPAN as it used string eval on data obtained from the internet.
Significant editor and completion (wip) performance improvements.
Added support for Function::Parameters syntax WIP, #1674
Added support for Copyright plugin allowing you to add/update copyright to your pm files (NB: preview for
block mode works wrong, but plugin should properly insert/update copyright in POD section).
${perlfile.packageName} variable supported in addition to standard set,
#2168
isa expression parsing, highlighting, formatting, quick-doc and target version validation, #2206
Chained comparisons and equality checks support: parsing, highlighting, formatting and target version validation, #2208
Code completion:
Completion no longer suggests two lookup elements per namespace with different suffixes, to provide useful elements instead,
dereference is now auto-completed and invokes pop-up after namespace, #2242
You may now complete variables without typing a sigil, just with variable name (experimental feature), #2170
You may now complete unicode character names in \N{} substitution (NB: currently all names known by your JRE
suggested without filtering or extending by target perl version), #2250
Completion has been reworked and now should be much faster and relevant than before, #2197
Global variables are now shown in the short form: only variable name. Namespace specified in the left side, #2187
Global variables aliased with our keyword in the current file are now available in completion with their short names,
#2191
Global variables are now completable by name only, namespace inserted automatically (except spammy ones, like @ISA, @EXPORT and
friends, $VERSION), require manual completion invocation, #2185
Completion at bare filehandle now suggests namespaces, subs and variables, #2202
Completion at bare hash index now suggests namespaces, subs and variables, #2184
Fixed problems with variables completion if name is already braced, #2183
Completion of variable is no longer eats punctuation after a sigil, #2182
So in case you haven't been following the conference, Perl 7 has been announced. To quote brian_d_foy, a little tl/dr: 'Perl 7 is v5.32 with different settings. Your code should work if it’s not a mess. Expect a user release within a year.', but you should probably just read the whole post, since, you know, details. Also Preparing for Perl 7.
I followed the link to r/perl and was pleasantly surprised to see a link to "Perl Weekly Challenges" that seems to be quite active.
I never participated in the Perl golf on account of me being totally lost or the Perl programming challenges of yore, but I was pretty active with the Pull Request Challenge when it was going. I got a lot out of it and I strongly encouraged any Perl programmers at $WORK I happened to be mentoring at the time to get involved. Some did, and it was very beneficial for them as well.
In any case, it's no PRC but it looks like the PWCs have been active for quite a few months. Not sure if this is news, but it is new to me. And I don't see how it's fake even tho I found it on leddit, so here you go!
Allow me to introduce Intramine, an intranet service suite for Windows done in Strawberry Perl and JavaScript that provides sub-second local search of your half a million or more source and text files, among other things.
Some other things:
five-second index update when you change a file, to keep searches current
automatic linking for all source and text and image file mentions, with minimal overhead (often none)
a really nice file Viewer to browse your files, and see search hits in full context (plus that automatic linking)
image hovers in your source and text files
Gloss, a markdown variant specifically for intranet use that takes advantage of autolinking and minimizes "computer friendly" overhead
scalable services: write your own IntraMine service, with or without a front end, and run multiple instances that can talk to other services
Search, Viewer, and Linker service support for 137 programming languages, as well as plain text
Per discussion with Sawyer, the current Perl pumpking, the current plan is that Cor will go into the Perl core. Unlike previous attempts, this one looks like it will really happen. So get your feedback in now.
To give you a little taste, here's a simple LRU cache written in Cor.
class Cache::LRU {
use Hash::Ordered;
has $cache :handles(get) :builder;
has $max_size :new(optional) :reader :isa(PositiveInt) = 20;
has $created :reader = time;
method _build_cache () { Hash::Ordered->new }
method set ( $key, $value ) {
if ( $cache->exists($key) ) {
$cache->delete($key);
}
elsif ( $cache->keys > $max_size ) {
$cache->shift;
}
$cache->set( $key, $value ); # new values in front
}
}
Due to COVID-19, the organizers of the conference have agreed to cancel the event. For both safety as well as with the expectation that a new rule closing organized events over 3 people until June in the Netherlands has made the conferene this year untenable. The conference will continue in 2021 (likely to be in August just as this year was scheduled for). We are looking into the possibility of a remote conference sometime this summer in collaboration with the American conference.
"Performance Concurrency with the Perl Many-Core Engine"
A talk on MCE and MCE::Shared, introducing the main features and usage of this powerful framework to parallelize your Perl code and turbo-charge your programs by harnessing the power of all the cores on your machine.
Date: Wednesday March 25, 2020
Time: 1800 EDT (GMT-4)
Fellow monks, I prepared this talk (with the assistance of marioroy, the author of the modules) for the Perl Conference 2020 where I was scheduled to present it. Today that conference was cancelled, as has been the Baltimore/DC Perlyglot Workshop where it was also on the schedule. I was scheduled to give the talk at the Charlotte, NC Perlmongers meeting tomorrow; that meeting has been moved on line. The Charlotte.pm organizer cromedome has allowed me to share the link, so if you have any interest in MCE please join us!
Thanks!
The way forward always starts with a minimal test.
Monks. I am very sorry posting this on behalf of Liz here on Perlmonks. She just published a gist with sad news:
Our dear friend Jeff Goff has died in a scuba diving accident. He told me and many others about how he looked forward to learning more about scuba diving, getting more experienced in it, during the JoCo Cruise ( https://jococruise2020.sched.com/jeff_goff.1zitf4ff ). Apparantly, something went horribly wrong.
I have spent many hours with Jeff, not in the least when he broke his hip in Spain during the Perl conference in Granada, and I took it upon me to take care of several things for him. He has stayed as a guest at least twice in my home. I have learned to know Jeff as a warm, loving man, with a great sense of humor, wonderful ideas, and always helpful. Last time I saw him when he took over from me at the Perl & Raku booth at FOSDEM in Brussels.
Needless to say, but it needs to be said anyway: Liz and I will miss him terribly. The Perl & Raku communities will miss him dearly, as he was one volunteer who has done a lot of things to make things happen, to make things better.
Please do not contact his mother or other family with requests about how the accident happened. Please wait for more information about what actually happened, it will be presented when we have it.
If you want to send condolences to the family, please do so to the following address:
c/o Family Goff
PO Box 118
St. Ignatius, MT 59865
USA
