Lizzybel was walking the corridors of North Pole Central when Steve, the Physics Elf, came up to her. “Have you seen my issue on this very nice module of yours?”, he asked. “Oof, I guess I must have missed that, sorry!”, said Lizzybel, while thinking to herself “I really should look more at my modulesContinue reading “Day 17 – An issue with evaluation”
Category Archives: object-oriented programming
Day 10 – Java Annotations in Raku or my @annotation is role;
Today, a little about the fact that the new is better absorbed through the already known. It so happened that I write for $dayjob in Java, so I will come from this side. Java 1.5 introduces an interesting syntactic form – annotations. It looks something like this: The example shows an annotation @Deprecated that causesContinue reading “Day 10 – Java Annotations in Raku or my @annotation is role;”
Day 24: Christmas-oriented programming, part deux
In the previous installment of this series of articles, we started with a straightforward script, and we wanted to arrive to a sound object-oriented design using Raku. Our (re)starting point was this user story:
Day 23: Christmas-oriented design and implementation
Every year by the beginning of the school year, which starts by January 8th in the North Pole, after every version of the Christmas gift-giving spirit has made their rounds, Santa needs to sit down to schedule the classes of the North Pole Community College. These elves need continuous education, and they need to reallyContinue reading “Day 23: Christmas-oriented design and implementation”