Comments on: Shiny New Perl – Modern Perl!

By: Jeremy Leader

Jeremy Leader — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:22:37 +0000

Minor nit: you say “Perl of no later than 5.10.1″, I think you mean “Perl no older than 5.10.0″!

By: Shlomi Fish

Shlomi Fish — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:16:51 +0000

How does Text::Reform ( http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Reform/ ) relates to Perl6::Form ( http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perl6-Form/ ). It seems that they were both originated by Damian Conway, and that Perl6::Form carries a newer initial copyright, and is also recommended in Perl Best Practices. However, Text::Reform was last updated in 2009, while Perl6::Form was last updated in 2004. Can anyone answer that?

By: chromatic

chromatic — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 21:34:42 +0000

Exactly.

It’s possible to use formats without relying on package globals, but that falls in the category of nasty hacks I don’t want to perpetuate and won’t explain. The CPAN offers much, much better solutions.

By: Dave Rolsky

Dave Rolsky — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:20:04 +0000

I suspect he left out formats because they fall into the “things you shouldn’t use” category. Perl’s format feature is just weird as heck.

The Text::Reform module on CPAN is a much better choice. The API is reasonably sane, and it provides more features than Perl’s built-in formats.