| JasonKing | Hmm, doesn't compile on my Python. |
| MitchM | ... your point is mute. |
| JasonKing | Heh :) Me too, although Ruby is a clear winner for consistency and beauty. |
| action | merlyn sits on hold to an airline - just like the old days ) |
| merlyn | sits on hold to an airline - just like the old days ) |
| SpiceMan | but still green fun to play with it for sure though |
| JasonKing | SpiceMan, yeah, that's why I'm still coding in Perl ;) |
| somian | Ahh, merlyn, perfect -- good to see you :-) |
| JasonKing | Ruby is the nice gleaming laser gun which you still can't get batteries for. Perl is the other 1000 arrows in the quivver. |
| infidel | if i type perl on console i can start entering code on the following line right? |
| SpiceMan | yeah |
| JasonKing | infidel, yep. |
| rindolf | Hi all! |
| infidel | JasonKing, how do i get it to execute then return to the prompt? |
| ST47 | are classes like modules? |
| JasonKing | infidel, ^D |
| rindolf | Can you guys please svn checkout http://svn.perl.org/modules/XML-RSS/trunk/ and then do perl Makefile.PL; HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES="-MDevel::Cover" make test; ? ST47: classes in Perl 5 are essentially packages. |
| infidel | JasonKing, oh ok eof |
| rindolf | ST47: a module may contain one or more packages. |
| ST47 | oh :D |
| rindolf | ST47: but packages are orthogonal to modules. |
| ST47 | modules are good. |
| JasonKing | infidel, or __END__<enter> if you like typing ;) infidel, in case it's ever required, it's ^Z<enter> in the Windows shell. |
| infidel | JasonKing, what about a /n |
| rindolf | perlbot: modules |
| perlbot | "Modules are a collection of reusable perl functions or classes that your perl script can use or require to avoid having to re-invent wheels. Most modules are typically found on CPAN and you can install them by using perl -MCPAN -e shell; and then following the prompts" |
| mauke | don't bother, perl interprets both \cD and \cZ as end-of-file |
| zgh | infidel: three ways aren't enough? maybe you're taking TIMTOWTDI too far |
| JasonKing | infidel, apart from a forward slash not being the escape character, a \n will just end the line, not the file. |
| somian | rindolf: ack |
| infidel | JasonKing, yeah i'm just trying to make it use /n but i get an error JasonKing, should that be in "" |
| Zaba | hmm is it possible to make an app with loadable modules in perl? |
| zgh | Zaba: yes |
| rindolf | somian: hi. |
| infidel | print 01101;\n = 577ecc@ecc-laptop:~/perl$ |