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Perl5 and Advanced Perl4 Features

Given by Geoffrey C. Fox at Computational Science for Information Age Course CPS616 Material on April 16,1996. Foils prepared April 16,1996
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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
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