See Perl Home Page http://mox.perl.com/perl for background information and resources such as manual! |
This Foilset mainly extends the previous Perl4 Presentation with a discussion of some key Perl5 capabilities. |
However some features may be advanced Perl4 features |
We give an initial Summary of Perl5 Changes and then discuss: |
Some old and new functions in Perl |
Regular Expression Enhancements |
New Syntax especially -> and => |
New subroutine calling and declaration syntax |
Hard(address) and Soft(Symbol Table) References |
General Data Structures including multidimensional Arrays |
Object Oriented Features -- packages, classes and Methods |