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Saturday February 09, 2008
08:00 PM
Tech Reviewers for Learning Perl 5th Edition
Last week I finished updating Learning Perl for Perl 5.10, and it's time for it's technical review before I turn in the book to the publisher at the end of the month. Anyone with 5.10 experience interested? Email me and I work out the details with you.
I'll have more to say about the newest edition later, but it's not a minor update. There's a completely new chapter on smart matching, and lots of additions to the regex stuff. Perl 5.10 adds some nice features for newbies.
Here are some of the things that we've added:
I expect the book might just squeak in by YAPC::NA, but it should definitely be at OSCON.
I'll have more to say about the newest edition later, but it's not a minor update. There's a completely new chapter on smart matching, and lots of additions to the regex stuff. Perl 5.10 adds some nice features for newbies.
Here are some of the things that we've added:
- say
- Named captures in regexes
- Relative back references in regexes
- state variables
- stacked file test operators
- defined-or
- smart matching
- given-when and for-when
I expect the book might just squeak in by YAPC::NA, but it should definitely be at OSCON.
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