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 Bender2, a channel op bot, and liddle_piddle_bot, a help and op 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.

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

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>