Perl 6 Now

Perl 6 Now

Perl 6 Now: Core Ideas Illustrated With Perl 5 introduces programming and computer science concepts few Perl 5 programmers have had the occasion to learn and demonstrates how to apply them in day to day (or exceptional) programming tasks. While it covers intermediate through advanced topics on this subject, I'm most fond of some of the more advanced things: light weight arrays and vector operations with the PDL module; subroutines that don't have to return with Coro; function currying with autoload; and strong typing with typesafety. Perl 6 features available for Perl 5 that don't tax the brain are also included, such as aliasing without globs, various syntax hacks implemented with source filters (and some without), implicit object constructors, and much more. Just like Perl 6, this book has strong object as well as strong functional tendencies. Perl 6 makes a lot more sense when you understand how it better integrates new and existing features by generalizing the languages.

1/2006:
Robin Houstin, who had other modules featured in Perl 6 Now is back with a vegence, bringing us a built-in Perl 6 style switch construct for Perl 5 and now a Perl 6 style smart-match construct. Read about it at the article on use.perl.org.

10/2005:
http://perl.codefetch.com searches examples from piles of Perl books, including Perl 6 Now! Try for example http://perl.codefetch.com/search?qy=delegate&lang=perl. They index listings on books on other languages as well. I'm still grooving on how neat this is.