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Postings from May 2008
G'day p5p, Some time ago, I started discussing the idea of autodie (previously codenamed 'lethal'), a lexical version of Fatal that could be implemented now that Perl 5.10's %^H hash does wonderful things. Despite a small period where I was distracted by other things, I'm back to working on autodie, as I'm quite eager to get it released. To help facilitate that, I've done a couple of things: * I've put my working repository on-line at: http://github.com/pfenwick/autodie/tree/master Feel free to clone it, play with it, and especially ask questions or make patches. If you have a github account, and want commit access, ask. * I've put my 5 minute talk about autodie on-line at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-nrwAUiIv8 It's just like watching me talk at a Perl Mongers meeting, but the guy in the second row can't heckle all the way through. The code at the moment should be considered a "work in progress", meaning it's ugly, filled with XXX and TODO's, is missing documentation, and contains undead horrors from Fatal's code generation routines. Patches, questions, or just general encouragement welcome. ;) The on-line video contains a few things which aren't there quite yet, most notably: * We don't have 5.10.1, nor has autodie been released with it, but I hope you'll all think it's a good enough idea that it will be. (It will also upgrade Fatal to have better error messages and a proper exception hierarchy). * It's not yet on CPAN. Since the autodie repository includes (a very modified) Fatal.pm, I don't want to upload non-production ready code that someone may install by accident. * The example with open giving a really nice error message doesn't work yet, but will in around about an hour after I've had a cup of tea and pushed my changes to the repository. Feedback, questions, and patches of any sort is most welcome. Cheerio, Paul -- Paul Fenwick <pjf@perltraining.com.au> | http://perltraining.com.au/ Director of Training | Ph: +61 3 9354 6001 Perl Training Australia | Fax: +61 3 9354 2681