NAME perlmodstyle – Perl module style guide INTRODUCTION This 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…
NAME perlmodlib – constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones THE PERL MODULE LIBRARY Many 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…
NAME perlmodinstall – Installing CPAN Modules DESCRIPTION You 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…
NAME perlmod – Perl modules (packages and symbol tables) DESCRIPTION Is 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….
NAME README.mint – Perl version 5 on Atari MiNT DESCRIPTION There 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 The following advice is from perl 5.004_02 and is probably rather out of date.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…
perlmine – A game to clear hidden mines from a minefield Synopsis perl perlmine.pl Description An 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 Errors Hey! The above document had…
NAME perlmacosx – Perl under Mac OS X SYNOPSIS This 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 install DESCRIPTION The latest Perl release (5.30.0 as of this writing) builds without changes under all versions of Mac OS X…
NAME perlmacos – Perl under Mac OS (Classic) SYNOPSIS For 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. DESCRIPTION The port of Perl to…
NAME README.machten – Perl version 5 on Power MachTen systems DESCRIPTION This 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 supported Power MachTen is not supported by versions of Perl later than 5.6.x. If you wish to build…
NAME perllol – Manipulating Arrays of Arrays in Perl DESCRIPTION Declaration and Access of Arrays of Arrays The 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…
NAME perllocale – Perl locale handling (internationalization and localization) DESCRIPTION In 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…
NAME perllinux – Perl version 5 on Linux systems DESCRIPTION This 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 OS Sun Microsystems has released a port of their Sun Studio compilers for Linux. As of…
NAME perllexwarn – Perl Lexical Warnings DESCRIPTION Perl 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. Index
NAME perlivp – Perl Installation Verification Procedure SYNOPSIS perlivp [-p] [-v] [-h] DESCRIPTION The 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…
NAME perlirix – Perl version 5 on Irix systems DESCRIPTION This document describes various features of Irix that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs. Building 32-bit Perl in Irix Use sh Configure -Dcc=’cc -n32′ to compile Perl 32-bit. Don’t bother with -n32 unless you have 7.1 or later…
NAME perlipc – Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes, safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores) DESCRIPTION The basic IPC facilities of Perl are built out of the good old Unix signals, named pipes, pipe opens, the Berkeley socket routines, and SysV IPC calls. Each is used in slightly different situations. Signals Perl uses a simple signal…
NAME perliol – C API for Perl’s implementation of IO in Layers. SYNOPSIS /* Defining a layer … */ #include <perliol.h> DESCRIPTION This document describes the behavior and implementation of the PerlIO abstraction described in perlapio when "USE_PERLIO" is defined. History and Background The PerlIO abstraction was introduced in perl5.003_02 but languished as just an…
NAME perlintro — a brief introduction and overview of Perl DESCRIPTION This document is intended to give you a quick overview of the Perl programming language, along with pointers to further documentation. It is intended as a “bootstrap” guide for those who are new to the language, and provides just enough information for you to…
NAME perlinterp – An overview of the Perl interpreter DESCRIPTION This document provides an overview of how the Perl interpreter works at the level of C code, along with pointers to the relevant C source code files. ELEMENTS OF THE INTERPRETER The work of the interpreter has two main stages: compiling the code into the…
NAME perlintern – autogenerated documentation of purely internal Perl functions DESCRIPTION This file is the autogenerated documentation of functions in the Perl interpreter that are documented using Perl’s internal documentation format but are not marked as part of the Perl API. In other words, they are not for use in extensions! Compile-time scope hooks…