DIDiederich·Apr 21, 2016
Is this an example of what Mr. Bendersky is talking about? I believe so:
https://github.com/perl6/book/blob/master/src/multi-dispatch...
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4 sourcesI've been working on writing a programming book for quite some time now, and I can tell you that coming up with good examples is really hard.
For me, a good example meets as many as possible of the following demands (in no particular order).
An example should
* demonstrate the feature or concept under discussion
* be short - shouldn't be more than half a page to a page
* solve a problem that the reader can easily understand
* solve an interesting problem
* not use unrelated features of the language or library that haven't been introduced yet
* should avoid complexity unrelated to the feature or concept under discussion
* should be as close as possible to what one would use in "serious" (ie non-teaching) programming
I found that i spent about as much time searching for good examples as actually writing text or code for the book. I'm pretty
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happy with some of the examples (for example the chapter on grammars parses JSON, which is rather real-world, but not too complicated), some of them still fail most of the demands given above.
(If you're curious, grab the latest PDF from https://github.com/perl6/book/downloads -- it's still very much a work in progress).
Here are some links showing recent Perl6 content/code:
* Perl6 advent calendar: http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/
* Moritz Lenz perl6 blog: http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-6/
* Carl Masak perl* blog & github projects: http://use.perl.org/~masak/journal/ http://github.com/masak
* Perl6 planet: http://planetsix.perl.org/
* Perl6 book: http://github.com/perl6/book
* Perl6 examples: http://github.com/perl6/perl6-examples
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