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perlobj – Perl object reference DescriptionThis document provides a reference for Perl’s object orientation features. If you’re looking for an introduction to object-oriented programming in Perl, please see perlootut. In order to understand Perl objects, you first need to understand references in Perl. See perlreftut for details. This document describes all of Perl’s object-oriented (OO)…
perlnumber – semantics of numbers and numeric operations in Perl Synopsis $n = 1234; # decimal integer $n = 0b1110011; # binary integer $n = 01234; # octal integer $n = 0x1234; # hexadecimal integer $n = 12.34e-56; # exponential notation $n = "-12.34e56"; # number specified as a string $n = "1234"; # number…
perlnewmod – preparing a new module for distribution DescriptionThis document gives you some suggestions about how to go about writing Perl modules, preparing them for distribution, and making them available via CPAN. One of the things that makes Perl really powerful is the fact that Perl hackers tend to want to share the solutions to…
perlnetware – Perl for NetWare DescriptionThis file gives instructions for building Perl 5.7 and above, and also Perl modules for NetWare. Before you start, you may want to read the README file found in the top level directory into which the Perl source code distribution was extracted. Make sure you read and understand the terms…
perlmroapi – Perl method resolution plugin interface DescriptionAs of Perl 5.10.1 there is a new interface for plugging and using method resolution orders other than the default (linear depth first search). The C3 method resolution order added in 5.10.0 has been re-implemented as a plugin, without changing its Perl-space interface. Each plugin should register itself…
perlmpeix – Perl/iX for HP e3000 MPE Synopsis http://www.bixby.org/mark/perlix.html Perl language for MPE Last updated January 12, 2006 @ 2100 UTCNoteThis is a podified version of what used to be on the above-mentioned web page, podified by Jarkko Hietaniemi 2001-Jan-01. What’s New in Perl for MPE/iXJanuary 12, 2006 • Updated for perl-5.8.8 and perl-5.9.3 by…
perlmodstyle – Perl module style guide IntroductionThis document attempts to describe the Perl Community’s “best practice” for writing Perl modules. It extends the recommendations found in perlstyle , which should be considered required reading before reading this document. While this document is intended to be useful to all module authors, it is particularly aimed at…
perlmodlib – constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones The Perl Module LibraryMany modules are included in the Perl distribution. These are described below, and all end in .pm. You may discover compiled library files (usually ending in .so) or small pieces of modules to be autoloaded (ending in .al); these were automatically generated…
perlmodinstall – Installing CPAN Modules DescriptionYou can think of a module as the fundamental unit of reusable Perl code; see perlmod for details. Whenever anyone creates a chunk of Perl code that they think will be useful to the world, they register as a Perl developer at <http://www.cpan.org/modules/04pause.html> so that they can then upload their…
perlmod – Perl modules (packages and symbol tables) DescriptionIs this the document you were after?There are other documents which might contain the information that you’re looking for: This doc Perl’s packages, namespaces, and some info on classes. perlnewmod Tutorial on making a new module. perlmodstyle Best practices for making a new module.PackagesUnlike Perl 4, in…
README.mint – Perl version 5 on Atari MiNT DescriptionThere is a binary version of perl available from the FreeMiNT project http://freemint.de/ You may wish to use this instead of trying to compile yourself. The following advice is from perl 5.004_02 and is probably rather out of date. If you want to build perl yourself on…
perlmine – A game to clear hidden mines from a minefield Synopsisperl perlmine.pl DescriptionAn example of config file: # -*- perl -*- # ~/.perlmine use utf8; %Config = ( %Config, rows => 10, cols => 10, mines => 10, image_directory => ‘/usr/share/pixmaps/gnomine’, name => ‘XXX’, );Pod ErrorsHey! The above document had some coding errors, which…
perlmacosx – Perl under Mac OS X SynopsisThis document briefly describes Perl under Mac OS X. curl -O http://www.cpan.org/src/perl-5.30.0.tar.gz tar -xzf perl-5.30.0.tar.gz cd perl-5.30.0 ./Configure -des -Dprefix=/usr/local/ make make test sudo make installDescriptionThe latest Perl release (5.30.0 as of this writing) builds without changes under all versions of Mac OS X from 10.3 “Panther” onwards….
perlmacos – Perl under Mac OS (Classic) SynopsisFor Mac OS X see README.macosx Perl under Mac OS Classic has not been supported since before Perl 5.10 (April 2004). When we say “Mac OS” below, we mean Mac OS 7, 8, and 9, and not Mac OS X. DescriptionThe port of Perl to to Mac OS…
README.machten – Perl version 5 on Power MachTen systems DescriptionThis document describes how to build Perl 5 on Power MachTen systems, and discusses a few wrinkles in the implementation. Perl version 5.8.x and greater not supportedPower MachTen is not supported by versions of Perl later than 5.6.x. If you wish to build a version from…
perllol – Manipulating Arrays of Arrays in Perl DescriptionDeclaration and Access of Arrays of ArraysThe simplest two-level data structure to build in Perl is an array of arrays, sometimes casually called a list of lists. It’s reasonably easy to understand, and almost everything that applies here will also be applicable later on with the fancier…
perllocale – Perl locale handling (internationalization and localization) DescriptionIn the beginning there was ASCII, the “American Standard Code for Information Interchange”, which works quite well for Americans with their English alphabet and dollar-denominated currency. But it doesn’t work so well even for other English speakers, who may use different currencies, such as the pound sterling…
perllinux – Perl version 5 on Linux systems DescriptionThis document describes various features of Linux that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs. Experimental Support for Sun Studio Compilers for Linux OSSun Microsystems has released a port of their Sun Studio compilers for Linux. As of November 2005, only…
perllexwarn – Perl Lexical Warnings DescriptionPerl v5.6.0 introduced lexical control over the handling of warnings by category. The "warnings" pragma generally replaces the command line flag -w. Documentation on the use of lexical warnings, once partly found in this document, is now found in the warnings documentation.
perlivp – Perl Installation Verification Procedure Synopsisperlivp [-p] [-v] [-h] DescriptionThe perlivp program is set up at Perl source code build time to test the Perl version it was built under. It can be used after running: make install(or your platform’s equivalent procedure) to verify that perl and its libraries have been installed correctly. A…