I’m not a hackathon kinda guy. I don’t get off on solving hard or novel problems. I don’t believe in contests. I’m not particularly energized by the idea that a whole bunch of us are trying to solve the same problem at once— I do believe in community, and I appreciate being able to interact with other developers, but on a different level than just getting into the same (virtual or physical) room together, eyes to the computer screen.

So why then did I participate in the Dallas/Fort Worth Perl Mongers Winter 2013 Hackathon?

I ported my DFW.pm Hackathon entry to the latest Perl dev release (5.19.9), the one with built-in sub signatures.

I had originally designed it using the latest p5-mop and Алексей Капранов’s (Alexei Kapranov’s) signatures package. (I thought this was more in the spirit of mop than Sub::Signatures.) And that worked fairly well, with only a few glitches, and only a few complaints. But since sub signatures are now available (Yay!) in core (No hiding how I feel about that, eh?), it seemed a good time to bring the experiment fully into the present.

And here are some discoveries from my experiences with Perl mop+signatures.