Stories for 2008-01-12

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In this issue:
    * This Week on perl5-porters - 30 December 2007-5 January 2008
    * Frozen Perl call for lightning talks
    * Honolulu.pm
    * 5.12 proposals

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| This Week on perl5-porters - 30 December 2007-5 January 2008       |
|   posted by grinder on Friday January 11, @08:37 (Summaries)       |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/11/1338234              |
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This Week on perl5-porters - 30 December 2007-5 January 2008
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That's now twice in this thread that I've been accused of favouring
languages that I actually dislike [...] . I think the Java model of
exception signatures is awful. -- Zefram (I hope you know this will go
down on your permanent record).

This story continues at:
    http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/11/1338234

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    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=08/01/11/1338234


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| Frozen Perl call for lightning talks                               |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Friday January 11, @14:29 (User Journal)|
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/11/2310258              |
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Our [0]call for lightning talks is open. Ken Williams is going to be
organizing it (thanks, Ken).

Also, Saturday is the last day to get the $20 early bird rate for
non-students, so now's the time to sign up if you haven't yet done so.

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=08/01/11/2310258

Links:
    0. http://www.frozen-perl.org/mpw2008/lightning.html


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| Honolulu.pm                                                        |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Friday January 11, @16:30 (User Journal)|
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/11/2311206              |
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My friend Toru Hisai, who has joined us at Shibuya.pm tech meetings in
Tokyo a lot, has recently moved to Honolulu, Hawaii and he's now trying
to start a local Perl user group there: [0]Honolulu.pm. Hawaii.pm appears
to have been there for really a long time but it turns out the website is
way outdated and the contact on the site is bouncing, so I suggested him
to start his own.

This might be a significant step for us towards YAPC::Hawaii? hint, hint.

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=08/01/11/2311206

Links:
    0. http://honolulu.pm.org/


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| 5.12 proposals                                                     |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Friday January 11, @18:29 (User Journal)|
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/11/2311212              |
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Now that 5.10 is out, rjbs and I have fired off a bunch of proposals for
5.12 features to p5p. These are things which should be dead obvious, at
least on the surface.

rjbs proposed...

[0]Was I called as a method? A caller() extension so a routine can tell
if it was called as a method or not.

[1]Lexical named subroutines:

  my sub foo {...}

to take over from

  my $foo = sub { ... };

. Yes please, I'll take 10.

[2]Anonymous packages: Yep, a namespace with no name.

I've proposed...

[3]Named subroutine parameters:

  sub foo ($this, $that) { ... }

Oh god please can we? The idea is to start simple and obvious and build
out from there. Discussion is positive and lively. There's lots of small,
but very important, details to work out.

[4]method declaration:

  method foo { return $self->{foo} }

No more my $self = shift;!

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=08/01/11/2311212

Links:
    0. http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-01/msg00438.html
    1. http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-01/msg00439.html
    2. http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-01/msg00440.html
    3. http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?named_parameter_proposal
    4. http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?method_keyword_proposal



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