Chris Nandor has been bugging me to use the Github tools he helped to develop for Marchex, so when I posted about Hound he showed me another way to search […]
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Search the Perl 6 repos with Etsy’s Hound
Hound photo by Jen on Flickr I’m working on Learning Perl 6 and I spend a lot of my time going between repos to suss out various things. Etsy’s Hound […]
Read moreCollating my activity to @LearningPerl6
I’ve already told you about the @LearningPerl6 twitter account, and I spent today setting up some stuff to collect what I’m doing elsewhere. I’m using Dlvr.it to put the interesting […]
Read moreindir() changes the directory just for its block
Update for April 2017: indir is now a documented part of the language. How many times have I wanted to change the current working directory for just one block? It’s […]
Read moreStrip leading spaces from here-docs
Perl v5.26 steals Perl 6’s feature to strip leading whitespace from here-docs. I wrote about that for The Effective Perler, but here’s the same thing for Perl 6 here-docs. As […]
Read moreA dedicated LearningPerl6 Twitter account
If you only want my Perl 6 messages, I’ve created a new @LearningPerl6 Twitter account. Like my other @briandfoy_perl is mostly just Perl with some things that Perl people might […]
Read moreTranslating the perlfaq to Perl 6
I started a GitHub project to translate the Perl 5 perlfaq to Perl 6. For years I maintained those documents so they are a bit special to me. Sadly, the […]
Read moreQuick Tip #30: Uninstall a Perl 6 module
You can uninstall Perl 6 modules. Many people have asked for a way to uninstall a Perl 5 module, but that toolchain didn’t do the sort of tracking that Perl […]
Read moreQuick Tip #29: Flip-flopping junctions
The flip flop operator isn’t just something for politicians and nervous interface designers. It’s a feature designed to turn on and off to set a window of processing.
Read moreQuick Tip #28: Perl 6’s Schwartzian Transform
This is a really Quick Tip. It’s about the Schwartzian Transform, which makes things quicker.
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