Passing by

[thibaultduponchelle]

Hello,

Here is a new article, the idea was about "passing args to sub by reference or by copy" then it expanded a bit around refs and aliasing.

I would greatly appreciate a technical and editorial review (as usual).

Please tell me also if the content is eligible for perl.com.

Thank you a lot

Thibault

[thibaultduponchelle]

I think this is the start of an interesting article, but needs a little bit of rearrangement and focus. What do you want the reader to know at the end of the article? Is there something that they need to do or stop doing? Figure that part out and build around that.

I don't want to give any lesson with this article but more to bring reader by the hand and make him an interesting and entertaining journey. It's more about general Perl culture and discovering syntax details than something else.

Also, I think this could benefit from a discussion of Perl's copy-on-write features. There are many things we've done historically to avoid excessive copying, such as passing scalar references, that we don't need to do anymore if we aren't going to modify the value.

Oh very good point for the COW :+1: thank you

I will come back ASAP with the edits, thank you for this review.

[thibaultduponchelle]

Added a paragraph for COW and symbolic refs.

The overall article has a better structure now :smiley:

[oalders]

Just browsing today -- maybe this article needs another round of review?

[thibaultduponchelle]

Just browsing today -- maybe this article needs another round of review?

Thank you @oalders 😄

I think the best is to let me first edit it one more time. Last time I checked I wanted to do some edits. But yes, overall it is almost ready.

[briandfoy]

I see this update. I'm about to be away for a couple of weeks, so let me get back to this then. If you don't hear more before the end of April, just ping me again.

[thibaultduponchelle]

@oalders Thank you a lot !! 🙏🏼

[oalders]

@briandfoy pinging you on @thibaultduponchelle's behalf. 😄

[thibaultduponchelle]

@briandfoy Can we publish it?

[thibaultduponchelle]

@dnmfarrell

[briandfoy]

Sorry for letting this languish. David has moved on from perl.com, and I was only really supporting whatever he was doing. Perl.com is basically unmaintained.

I've pushed this article to live and it's on Perl.com now. Thanks for your patience.

[oalders]

@briandfoy moving this repo over to the perladvent org might be a good way to get things moving again. We are already set up to edit, review and publish a large volume of posts.

[briandfoy]

@oalders: I'll support anything you'd like to do, but there are a few things to know:

• the domain belongs to tchrist, and TPF can use it.
• the Perl NOC handles a lot of the details. This site uses Hugo to write to a different repo, and the Perl NOC setup publishes that second repo to Perl.com

If you want to do something, open another issue (or just email me) and I'll assist in any way I can.

[thibaultduponchelle]

Sorry for letting this languish.

No problem @briandfoy, thank you for your support