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Perl, Perl 6, and Two Application Frameworks Release 2017 Advent Calendars (perladvent.org)
An anonymous reader writes:
Friday saw this year's first new posts on the Perl Advent Calendar, a geeky tradition first started back in 2000. It describes Santa including Unicode's "Father Christmas" emoji by enabling UTF-8 encoding and then using the appropriate hexadecimal code.
But in another corner of the North Pole, you can also unwrap the Perl 6 Advent Calendar, which this year celebrates the two-year anniversary of the official launch of Perl 6. Its first post follows a Grinch who used the but and does operators in Perl 6, while wrapping methods and subroutines to add extra sneaky features, "and even mutated the language itself to do our bidding."
Perl/Python guru Joel Berger has also started an advent calendar for the Mojolicious web application framework (written in Perl), and there's apparently also an advent calendar coming for the Perl Dancer web application framework.
But in another corner of the North Pole, you can also unwrap the Perl 6 Advent Calendar, which this year celebrates the two-year anniversary of the official launch of Perl 6. Its first post follows a Grinch who used the but and does operators in Perl 6, while wrapping methods and subroutines to add extra sneaky features, "and even mutated the language itself to do our bidding."
Perl/Python guru Joel Berger has also started an advent calendar for the Mojolicious web application framework (written in Perl), and there's apparently also an advent calendar coming for the Perl Dancer web application framework.
You can see how non automatic it is because slashdot, which is written in Perl, is pretty much guaranteed to corrupt unicode characters in comments even though slashdot is is utf8.
Slashdot had UTF-8 support for a short while a decade or so ago. It was turned back off again, because the perl support was too good, allowing things like right-to-left spaces, which the crowd here naturally pounced on.
Turning it back on is easy enough, but unless someone spends a lot of time hardening the system, it will get abused again.
As for your perl em-dash problem, why do you need to know the length, if it's a separator? Use the built-in functions that can deal with a separator of any length, and you should not have to write specific handling.