HTML version of Abstract of Basic Foils prepared April 16,1996

Abstract of Perl5 and Advanced Perl4 Features

From Perl5 and Advanced Perl4 Features Computational Science for Information Age Course CPS616 Material -- April 16,1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox *

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

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