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• Meta programming (Score:1)

  by nothingmuch (5848)

  I think Perl has continually defied these attempts to package patterns because of it's meta programmability.

  Things we previously thought were not possible to package are now on CPAN as usable modules.

  Design patterns are thus getting more and more refined, and in time converge simply with the best practices for the software that helps to implement them.

  In the Java community metaprogramming is a much more difficult thing, so in order to produce extensible, reusable and clean code you need to have a much stric
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by nothingmuch (5848)

    bah, i meant attempts to *define*
• Badger::Debug (Score:1)

  by abw (998)

  <plug>
  
  I also use the $DEBUG/DEBUG idiom in pretty much every module I write.  Being rather lazy I wrote Badger::Debug to do the job for me.
  
  If you add the following to the top of your module:
  
      package Your::Module;
      use Badger::Debug default => 0;
  
  Then you'll get both the $DEBUG package variable and DEBUG compile time constant defined for you (in this case, set to 0). The end result is almost exactly as per your example.
  
  It also has a 'modules' option which you can use to
• Higher-Order Perl as a catalog of design patterns (Score:1)

  by Dominus (464)

  I have a semi-finished blog post sitting around that interprets much of the content of HOP as a catalog of design patterns for Perl. Chapter 4 [plover.com] is probably the best example. Most of that chapter is concerned with methods of implementing generator functions that enumerate large quantities of data, one element at a time.
• Your pattern *is* implemented in a CPAN module (Score:1)

  by btilly (5037)

  See ifdef [cpan.org].

  In response to the criticism that it is a source filter, it filters for content within pod sections, which avoids almost all of the ambiguities that otherwise make parsing Perl so fun.
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by chocolateboy (121)

    Oh, that's ridiculously cool. Thanks for the link.