use Perl

• Decorators? (Score:1)

  by jordan (120)

  Does Perl need decorators to fix this kind of thing?
  
  I'm not really clear on this in that I've never actually programmed in a language that supports decorators. Well, I've done Scheme and I'm assured that there is nothing that you cannot do in Scheme, but I've never done it.
  
  I'm sure that Perl 6 has decorators as I'm as sure it has almost everything imaginable. I hear it has Traits and Roles [perl.org] and a lot of other things I've never even thought of. Unfortunately for me, it doesn't really have a stable existenc
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by chromatic (983)

    You can decorate instances of objects and classes at runtime with roles.
• YAML::Syck 0.87 - No need for File::Slurp :-) (Score:1)

  by audreyt (6654)

  [Changes for 0.87 (JSON::Syck 0.25) - 2007-06-17]
  
  * New LoadFile and DumpFile functions for JSON::Syck.
  
  * JSON::Syck now actually exports its functions if you ask for it.
  
  * LoadFile and DumpFile now accept IO objects in addition to file names.
    Requested by: Adriano Ferreira

  Thanks, applied!
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by ferreira (5993)

    Thank you, indeed. Remembering your motto (probably a little distorted by my bad memory): Less code is always better to write and maintain.
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by audreyt (6654)

      Well, that's a good motto, though the original was "Best coding = No coding".