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