Date: 15 Jul 2001 06:44:50 -0000
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From: mjd@plover.com
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It's been more than a month since my last announcement, and I thought
that rather than wait until everyone had given up hope, I would send a
brief announcement to let everyone know how things are going.  

The short summary: Things are going real well.  

I didn't get anything done for a while after I got back from YAPC
(partly inertia, and partly because I was getting Memoize.pm into Perl
5.7.1,) but I've been in a nice writing groove for the last week and a
half or so.  I started working on Chapter 5.5, which is about
conversion of recursive functions to iterators, and realized I
couldn't really go ahead until I had written chapter 4, which is about
iterators.  I now have about 6500 words written; when finished, the
chapter will probably be on the order of 20,000 words.  Unfortunately,
I have to go away to TPC in a week.

My grateful thanks to folks who sent me advice and corrections on
Chapter 3.

I have a rather odd sample this time; it's something I think will
*not* be in the book.  I was writing about iterators to generate
permutations, and I got about 1600 words into it and decided that it
was too mathy, so I tore the whole thing out and wrote it over.  But
you may be interested in the part that was torn out, although it's
ragged around the edges.  It's at

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Thank you all for your interest.  I will send another message next
time something happens, or perhaps next month even if nothing has
happened.