Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

[kobi zamir]

You do not have to use perl :-) You can use gnu-pascal or free-pascal
or c or c++ or python or ruby.

The point is that creating a list of holydays ( holy-day,
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Holyday )
is **very** easy to generate autocratically, if for some reason you do
not want to use the command line.

What this list is good for ?

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il> wrote:
> Hi Kobi,
>
> some comments on your Perl code:
>
> On Thursday 15 Apr 2010 07:22:31 kobi zamir wrote:
>> > 3. Is there a way to semi automatically create the non regular dates,
>> > such as the postponed date of the holocaust day?  Is there a known
>> > authoritative sites to pick these dates from?
>>
>> there are some fully automated ways :-) :
>> I. the command line hdate:
>> hdate -H 2010
>> will print all the holidays for the year 2010
>>
>> II. a python/perl script using libhdate will generate a list of holidays:
>> an example of such a python script is attached in earlier post in this
>> discussion. here is a perl example:
>>
>> # apt-get install libhdate-perl
>> #-------------------------------------------
>>
>
> Always add "use strict;" and "use warnings;" at the beginning of the file,
> after the shabang. Then fix all the errors that they report.
>
>> use hdate;
>>
>
> I realise it's probably too late to change it, but Perl module names should
> start with a capital letter - not with a lowercase ones. Modules that start
> with a lowercase letters are pragmas.
>
>> $h = hdatec::new_Hdate();
>>
>
> Why does "use hdate" import the "hdatec::" namespace? This is inconsistent.
>
>> hdatec::Hdate_set_gdate($h,1,1,2010);
>>
>
> This would better be written as:
>
> {{{
> $h->set_gdate(1,1,2010);
> }}}
>
> It won't work in this case, but could be food for thought for a future
> release.
>
>> $julian = hdatec::Hdate_get_julian($h);
>>
>> for($i = 0; $i < 365; $i++) {
>>       hdatec::Hdate_set_jd($h, $julian + $i);
>>
>>       $day = hdatec::Hdate_get_gday($h);
>>       $month = hdatec::Hdate_get_gmonth($h);
>>       $holyday = hdatec::Hdate_get_holyday_string($h, 1);
>>
>>       if ($holyday) {
>
> English nit: it's "holiday" - not "holyday".
>
>>               print $day . "/" . $month . " " . $holyday . "\n";
>
> This is better done using interpolation:
>
> [code]
> print "$day/$month $holiday\n";
> [/code]
>
> In the general case one should be careful not to introduce code/markup
> injections:
>
> http://community.livejournal.com/shlomif_tech/35301.html
>
> Regards,
>
>        Shlomi Fish
>
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