PortlandPerlMongers

June Meeting

June 14th, 6:53pm at Free Geek, 1741 SE 10th Ave

Perl Hacks You Probably Never Knew Existed

Perl is a powerful language with many secrets. It's no wonder that we call the true masters of Perl gurus – they have studied and discovered arcane knowledge and arcana.

In this talk, Perl Hacks lead author chromatic will show off several hacks you probably didn't even know existed. Some are practical. Some are disgusting. Every one is worth learning for when you find a problem you just can't solve any other way. Even if you've heard of them before, he'll show how they work – so you can create your own practical mayhem!

Potential hacks include:

Source filtering without source filters

Using shared libraries without a compiler

Creating truly private methods

Reading and writing lexicals without permission

Controlling the runloop from pure Perl

Making invocantless methods

Making multimethods without source filters

If you have a preference, please feel free to mark the most interesting subject – or suggest one.

This talk is most suitable for intermediate Perl programmers, though there is likely something an experienced Perl programmer doesn't know and it should be entertaining for novices as well.

PDX.pm meetings are on the second Wednesday of each month at 6:53pm, typically at Free Geek. Meetings are free-of-charge for all PortlandPerlMongerMembers. The cost for non-members is $2,000,000,000.00 per person.

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