Tag Archives: perl

How to move CPAN RT tickets to Github

Most of my new CPAN modules use Github for issue tracking because of the nice integration with pull requests. I recently wanted to migrate an older distribution to using Github, but didn't want to track tickets in two places. A while ago, Yanick Champoux wrote Bandying tickets from RT to Github, which looked like exactly [...]

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My Perl 6 post was really about Perl 5

As I see the comments about my Is Perl 6 pointless, hopeless or just not done? article, I realize that I've somehow misled people into thinking I was posing a conundrum about Perl 6. I'm not. In the various debates about the evolution of Perl 5 -- how fast it should evolve, whether it should [...]

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Is Perl 6 pointless, hopeless or just not done?

[Update: as you read this, when I say "Perl 6", it will help if you take that as "production-ready Perl 6".] I've been in the middle of several debates discussions about the evolution of Perl 5 in the last few weeks. I've come to realize that inherent in various attitudes are three points of view [...]

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Alternative to Test::NoWarnings

The Test::NoWarnings module is very helpful for detecting subtle errors in your code. Unfortunately, by default, it does its reporting in an END block, which doesn't play nicely with Test::More's done_testing() function, which I use a lot. There has been an open ticket since 2009 and nothing has been done. There is a workaround, but [...]

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Why I sometimes hate require

Can you spot the error in this code? Not yet? Here's the error I get compiling it: What the heck? I imported Num, so why is it not allowed? (Spot the error yet?) Here's a hint: I'm using a Mac. Does this make it clearer: Aha! I said "Mooselike" instead of "MooseLike". And the Mac [...]

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