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Halk

Some classes are already implemented. I did some trials with HTTP::Daemon and works like a charm. In a few lines you've got a simple HTTP server running where you can hook your custom code. It comes with LWP and based on its classes.

I founded an interesting module for config files called Config::General. It provides a syntax based on Apache's, where tags can be nested a la XML, there's file inclusion, variable interpolation, here documents, .... The example of two days ago becomes:

   title: About Foos And Bars
   author: The Author
   theme: clean
   pretty_printer: source_highlight_wrapper.sh
   
   <section>
     title: Section Title
     <subsection>
       title: Subsection Title
   
       <slide>
         title: Slide Title
         body: <<BODY
   This slide introduces foo, which is further detailed
   <a href="[% link_to_sref('bar') %]">later</a>.
   BODY
       </slide>
     </subsection>
   </section>

but looks too verbose to me compared to

   title 'About Foos And Bars';
   author 'The author';
   theme 'clean';
   pretty_printer 'source_highlight_wrapper.sh';
   
   section 'Section Title';
   subsection 'Subsection Title';
   
   slide 'Slide Title', <<'BODY';
   This slide introduces foo, which is further detailed
   <a href="[% link_to_sref('bar') %]">later</a>.
   BODY

Moreover with the latter to configure a presentation those functions are created as clousures before do()ing the file and Perl does the rest. Couldn't be easier.

9 Ball

I entered a 9 Ball Tournament to be held next Sunday in Namcos' at Diagonal Mar. It has been a long time since I touched the cue, but it will funny.

13 Apr 2004 fxn » (Master)