http://qs321.pair.com?node_id=110224

Hello!

Welcome to the Confession Booth

Please confess your sins here, whatever they may be.
update:
This is a confession booth. It is not a place to whine, but confess!!

 
___crazyinsomniac_______________________________________
Disclaimer: Don't blame. It came from inside the void

perl -e "$q=$_;map({chr unpack qq;H*;,$_}split(q;;,q*H*));print;$q/$q;"

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Re: Confession Booth
by blakem (Monsignor) on Sep 05, 2001 at 11:41 UTC
    OK, I'll step up to the plate...

    Last week, in Reg Expression Question I was a bit rough on a newbie. The question was basically "How to I determine if X is a member of set Y?" (with an attempted solution using a regex) A bunch of us jumped on the question right after it was posted, in our haste azatoth posted an incorrect answer. Not a big deal, azatoths been around and can take it when several of us pointed out the mistake. However this set the stage for my mood in a later posting.....

    Two good solutions were proposed, 1.) grep an array made from the set, or 2.) check for a hash key in a hash made from the set. A regex is ill suited for this task, which I thought this had been communicated in the thread. However, two hours later, a newbie pix used his second post ever to suggest using a regex. It happens to contain an overlooked 'gotcha' lurking within. I felt that anyone who read the previous posts should be able to conclude that regexes were not the way to go, so I shot down the suggestion with a bit more gusto than I should have. (I toned the node down significantly after the fact)

    I hadn't realized that I was roasting someone's second post, and some of the mistakes earlier in the thread had been edited so it didn't read quite like I assumed it did. I'm concerned that my grumbling might have made pix a bit gunshy......

    Anyway, pix if you're out there, sorry I roasted your second post. It actually was a rather clever way to address the problem, swapping the data and regex around. While I wouldn't recommend this technique over the others, it did have a "coolness" factor to it that I totally overlooked before. I didn't mean to blast a newbie, and was more harsh than necessary.

    -Blake

Re: Confession Booth
by azatoth (Curate) on Sep 05, 2001 at 10:40 UTC

    Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.

    Twice last week, I removed the -w switch from some code, because I was too lazy to check a bug in a module.

    Once the week before last, I submitted to the temptation of cutting and pasting some PerlMonks code into a script, without checking it for security holes / bugs.

    Three days ago I bought the Owl book, but have since failed to read a single page, despite promises to fellow monks.

    Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.

    Azatoth a.k.a Captain Whiplash

    Make Your Die Messages Full of Wisdom!
    Get YOUR PerlMonks Stagename here!
    Want to speak like a Londoner?
Re: Confession Booth
by idnopheq (Chaplain) on Sep 05, 2001 at 15:17 UTC
    Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.

    Yesterday, I edited some code with M$ Notepad. Twice.
    I wrote a huge if - elsif - else structure insted of a more simple switch statement.
    I have yet to Shift, Pop, Unshift and Push with Impunity!.
    I was temped by the XP whore.

    --
    idnopheq
    Apply yourself to new problems without preparation, develop confidence in your ability to to meet situations as they arrise.

Re: Confession Booth
by claree0 (Hermit) on Sep 05, 2001 at 11:41 UTC

    Forgive me

    I have put off learning the full power of regexes for too long, and now I feel I need to go back and rewrite lots of code

    I have only now ordered the owl book, and wish forgiveness for my wasted months of effort.

Re: Confession Booth
by stefan k (Curate) on Sep 05, 2001 at 11:56 UTC
    Forgive me

    I have sinned and I am still doing it now: I chose Ruby for my current project. I have sunken so deep that I even link to the language's website in this post.

    Regards... Stefan
    you begin bashing the string with a +42 regexp of confusion

Re: Confession Booth
by Tiefling (Monk) on Sep 05, 2001 at 15:31 UTC
    Bless me Father, for I have sinned.

    It is two months since my last Perl. I have allowed myself to be seduced by the earthly wiles of Role-Playing conventions and working for the Government.

    I promise to do better in future, and resist the lure of the world, the flesh and Micro$oft.

    The Penitent Tiefling

    -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GAT d++ s:- a-- C++ UL P++ L++(+) E? W+(++) N+ o? K w+(--) !O M- V? PS+ PE- Y PGP- t+ 5 X+ R+++ tv- b+++ DI++++ D+ G+ e++ h!(-) y +? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
Re: Confession Booth
by mexnix (Pilgrim) on Sep 05, 2001 at 18:54 UTC
    Forgive me Father, for I have sinned:

    I have wrote many a CGI program with out using (-T) taint checking. Please do not let your wrath fall upon me as I have not heeded to the advice of other monks and have read Ovid's Tutorial many times.

    Also, I have been tempted by C++ (and even Java) in the spirit of marketability.

    May Perl be with me always.

    __________________________________________________

    s mmgfbs nf, nfyojy m,tr yb-zya-zy,s zfzphz,print;
    - thanks japhy :)

    mexnix.perlmonk.org

Re: Confession Booth
by MZSanford (Curate) on Sep 05, 2001 at 19:31 UTC
    <JOKE>
    I, unlike the infidels, use Carp; when i confess !
    main::typing called at (eval 25)[today.pl:1510] line 2 main::lurking called at (eval 26)[today.pl:1510] line 2 main::monestray_login called at (eval 27)[today.pl:1510] line 2 main::logon_to('Network') called at (eval 28)[today.pl:1510] line 2 main::get_to_work called at (eval 29)[today.pl:1510] line 2 main::drive called at (eval 30)[today.pl:1510] line 2 main::wake_up called at (eval 33)[today.pl:1510] line 2
    </JOKE>
    can't sleep clowns will eat me
    -- MZSanford
(jeffa) Re: Confession Booth
by jeffa (Bishop) on Sep 06, 2001 at 01:39 UTC
    Forgive me, within the past month i have joined another support group, and i have cheated on my beloved Perl by toying in the dark arts of Python.

    And Zope.

     

    Well he made me!

    jeffa

        A flute with no holes is not a flute . . .
    a doughnut with no holes is a danish.
                                    - Basho,
                                      famous philosopher
    
Re: Confession Booth
by TStanley (Canon) on Sep 06, 2001 at 02:04 UTC
    Forgive me Father for I have sinned:

    1. I removed use strict; and -T from scripts to make them not produce errors
    2. I haven't read the perldoc for CGI enough and it has been far to long since I visited Ovid's CGI tutorial


    TStanley
    --------
    There's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us
    about this script for Hamlet they've worked out
    -- Douglas Adams/Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
      Even worse:

      I have run CGI scripts as setgid, and bypassed taint checking (which is automatically turned on for setuid/setgid programs; see perlman:perlsec) by invoking perl as perl -U (see perlman:perlrun).

      But that was a very long time ago, and I've already wept enough tears about that program...

      buckaduck

Re: Confession Booth
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 06, 2001 at 01:44 UTC
    $father->forgive($me, reason => "I have sinned")

    I used to post anonymously when I expect to be downvoted for a node so as not to take the XP hit (I don't do it very much any more, I usually don't post the node at all)

    Once I made a node (not anonymously) that I later realized was really stupid, and I edited it to try to cover the whole thing up and hoped nobody would remember.

    I don't always put use strict; and -w in my code if I'm not showing it to anybody else.

    I learned how to program in C.

Re: Confession Booth
by dru145 (Friar) on Sep 15, 2001 at 12:10 UTC
    Forgive me Father, for I have sinned:

    When first learning perl, I purchased "Perl for Dummies" and tried to read it after getting frustrated with the Llma.

    Please don't hold it against me

    -Dru
Re: Confession Booth
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 09, 2005 at 05:52 UTC
    After many years of preaching the holy language with enthusiasm, I've fallen into darkness and actually considered learning python. I realized my sin while reading the "Beginner's Guide to python", and shut down the web browser immediately. I could not be more ashamed.
Re: Confession Booth
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 06, 2001 at 01:48 UTC