Does anyone want a Perl contract in Boston?

Skills include:
experience with 7K lines + Perl packages
Perl 5 module / OOD w/ Perl
Perl on Unix and NT
SQL using Perl DBI/DBD interface
ClearCase
Perl/Tk
modperl and or other Perl-based web programming

This is a 3 - 6 month gig w/ our client in Boxboro, MA.
We can probably pay up to $100/hr on a 1099
* we promote full disclosure of bill rates and use a fixed
$10/hr mark-up.

Respect,
Don Catino
978-443-0066 x 202
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www.dpcit.com <http://www.dpcit.com> 


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-perl5-agents@[...].com [mailto:owner-perl5-agents@[...].com]On
Behalf Of Steve Purkis
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 11:26 AM
To: Cristina Bulfon
Cc: Diego Zamboni; Perl Mailing List
Subject: Re: configuration package


One quick note - if you're writing for Perl 5.6, you should still be
using @ISA...  use the 'base' pragma instead:

	use base qw (Exporter);

The rest remains the same.

regards,
-Steve


Cristina Bulfon wrote:
> 
>  Hi Diego,
> 
>  thanks, but in the meanwhile I found the solution :
> 
>  BEGIN {
> 
>  use Exporter();
>  use vars qw (@ISA @EXPORT $VERSION);
> 
>  $VERSION= 1.00;
>  @ISA = qw (Exporter);
> 
>  @EXPORT = qw (@Site
>              @Semaphore
>              $ConfigDir
>              $BaseDir
>              $ReleaseDir
>             );
>  }
>  use vars @EXPORT;
> 
>  # Define global variable
>  ........
> 
>  END {}
> 
>          cristina
> 
>  On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Diego Zamboni wrote:
> 
>  >
>  > bulfon@[...].EDU said:
>  > > my problem is: I'd really like to naming the global array in main
>  > > program like @Site or @Configuration rather than "@Configuration::Site"
>  > >  ..  I read in Perl CookBook that I have to use @EXPORT but doesn't
>  > > work
>  >
>  > You could make Configuration.pm not a package in itself, but just contain
the
>  > corresponding variable declarations. Here's what I have done in some
programs
>  > that require a configuration file. The file is called Config.pl, and it only
>  > contains the following:
>  >
>  > #---------- start of Config.pl
>  > %Config=(
>  >       param1 => value1,
>  >       param2 => value2,
>  >       ...
>  >       );
>  >
>  > 1;
>  > #----------- end of Config.pl
>  >
>  > Then in the main program I do:
>  >
>  > eval 'require "Config.pl"';
>  > die "Error: $@" if $@;
>  >
>  > and then I can just use $Config{param1} etc to access the configuration
>  > parameters. I use a hash, but you could just as well use simple variables
like
>  > @Site, @Semaphore, etc.
>  >
>  > Hope this helps,
>  > --Diego
>  >
>  >
>  >
> 
>  _____________________________________________________________________________
> 
>         Cristina Bulfon              E-mail Cristina.Bulfon@[...].edu
>  Stanford Linear Accelerator Center  Phone +1-650-926-5028
>  PO Box 4349, M/S 88                 Fax   +1-650-926-3329
>  Stanford, CA 94309, USA
>  _____________________________________________________________________________

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