PDL IRC

PDL-IRC

The PDL channel on irc.perl.org is a good place to ask questions or discuss PDL and related projects. If you have never used IRC, you can think of it as an instant messaging chat room.

Channel Bots

In addition to channel regulars, #pdl has a couple of bots that provide basic assistance and help maintain channel operator control. These include the Bender bots (which help maintain channel operators), and liddle_piddle_bot, a helper bot. Liddle responds to a few helpful commands, including

cpan

If you send a message in which the first word is cpan, liddle will take the remainder of your message as a module name and attempt to construct a url to that module's page on metacpan.

whereis

This is the generic lookup command for PDL documentation. To find documentation about the outer product, you can simply say whereis outer, for example.

help

If you type help <module-name>, liddle will try to construct a useful link to the online PDL documentation at pdl.perl.org. For example,

help FFT

should garner the response

http://pdl.perl.org/?docs=FFT&title=PDL::FFT

paste

If you can't remember where to paste (it should be in the channel subject), liddle will give you the url.

Trusted Nicks

If your nick gets added to the Trusted list, you will be automatically added as a channel operator the next time you sign on. Being a channel operator means you can regulate the conversation in certain ways, as described at http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/irctutorial.html. Being a trusted nick means that you can tell the bot to trust others by saying

liddle_piddle_bot: trust <nick>

Leaving Messages

It may happen that somebody asked a question while you were away and left before you could answer. If you want to leave them a message the next time they join the channel, say:

liddle_piddle_bot, tell <nick> <message>

For example,

liddle_piddle_bot, tell run4flat can you answer LimitSupremum's question? http://irclog.perlgeek.de/pdl/2013-05-22#i_7101409

When run4flat logs on next time, run4flat will get a message from liddle_piddle_bot of this form:

run4flat, can you answer LimitSupremum's question? http://irclog.perlgeek.de/pdl/2013-05-22#i_7101409