2006-10-22 Object Oriented Perl: Recommended
Source : Alex Schroeder: Diary
I started reading Object Oriented Perl by Damian Conway. I had mooched the book based on a recommendation by SuShee. [1]One thing I can say is that chapter two with a quick tour of Perl is clearer than any other book I have read in explaining some of the muddy issues in Perl:the difference between arrays and liststhe use of references and the arrow operatorthe square brackets and curly brackets for array and hash referencessome more esoteric syntax such as hash slices and calling a subrouting using &foo in order to pass it the current parametersthe book also makes clear that the parameter array is aliased so you can modify variables in the calling environment, which is something I somehow learned in passingAs I recently said on #emacs, more or less:kensanataI must confess that in order to get stuff done, I still use the arcane ugly hairy and cryptic language of our forefathers, P E R L !!!Well [..]
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