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

[kobi zamir]

I forgot to change the line

my $h = hdatec::new_Hdate();
to
my $h = new hdate::Hdate();

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:34 PM, kobi zamir <kobi.zamir at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ohh.... Perl is an ugly language ...
>
> Here is the perl code with shlomi's sugestions, it works just the same.
>
> #------------------------------------------
> use strict;
> use warnings;
> use hdate;
>
> my $h = hdatec::new_Hdate();
>
> $h->set_gdate(1,1,2010);
>
> my $julian = $h->get_julian();
>
> for(my $i = 0; $i < 365; $i++) {
>        $h->set_jd($julian + $i);
>
>        my $day = $h->get_gday();
>        my $month = $h->get_gmonth();
>        my $holyday = $h->get_holyday_string(1);
>
>        if ($holyday) {
>                print "$day/$month $holyday\n";
>        }
> }
> #------------------------------------------
>
> 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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