Paul Evans

@Grinnz > I was just thinking, it is much simpler and less mistake-prone to append `// die` to a call returning undef Mmmm.. It can be in some cases, but...

To explain more succinctly: Turning an entire class of exception into an undef (i.e. with the `may` keyword) is easy as it only throws away information. But turning an undef...

I'm currently converting some `no strict 'refs'` code to using meta. The old code went: ```perl no strict 'refs'; push @{"${caller}::ISA"}, __PACKAGE__; ``` The new code currently looks like: ```perl...

@mauke > I've never found a case where perl's "scan for the end and reparse" approach is actually useful. Oh I don't think anyone ever suggested it was *useful*. It's...

Configurable at what level though? Is it global for the entire bridge? Per channel? Per user?

This looks superficially simple but comes with huge amounts of hidden complexity. Currently the bridge has an easy life, because any messages appearing on either side that come in from...

I've moved out the question of puppeting the matrix-side accounts into a new issue - #33.

Right. That list of questions above has now been edited quite a bit, some of the questions moved out to #33. All of the above remain valid and still require...

Speaking of progress however, I do have the very start of some experimenal code, on https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-gitter/tree/paul/users-and-ghosts Right now it requires a bunch of hand-crafted `curl` requests to perform the OAuth2...

An initial attempt at this is now running in production, from the https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-gitter/tree/paul/users-and-ghosts branch. This does not attempt to address any concerns other than the minimal required to echo individual...