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Effective Perl Programming: Writing Better Programs with Perl
Effective Perl Programming: Writing Better Programs with Perl
ISBN: 0201419750
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 1996
Pages: 116
Authors:
Joseph N. Hall
,
Randal Schwartz
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Main Page
Table of content
Copyright
Foreword
Preface
Who should read this book
How and why I wrote this book
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The world of Perl
Terminology
Notation
Perl style
Organization
How to contact us
Chapter 1. Basics
Item 1: Know your namespaces.
Item 2: Avoid using a slice when you want an element
Item 3: Don t assign undef when you want an empty list.
Item 4: String and numeric comparisons are different.
Item 5: Remember that 0 and are false.
Item 6: Understand conversions between strings and numbers.
Chapter 2. Idiomatic Perl
Item 7: Use for elegance.
Item 8: Know the other default arguments: _ , ARGV , STDIN .
Item 9: Know common shorthands and syntax quirks.
Item 10: Avoid excessive punctuation.
Item 11: Consider different ways of reading from a stream.
Item 12: Use foreach , map and grep as appropriate.
Item 13: Don t misquote.
Item 14: Learn the myriad ways of sorting.
Chapter 3. Regular Expressions
Item 15: Know the precedence of regular expression operators.
Item 16: Use regular expression memory.
Item 17: Avoid greed when parsimony is best.
Item 18: Remember that whitespace is not a word boundary.
Item 19: Use split for clarity, unpack for efficiency.
Item 20: Avoid using regular expressions for simple string operations.
Item 21: Make regular expressions readable.
Item 22: Make regular expressions efficient.
Chapter 4. Subroutines
Item 23: Understand the difference between my and local .
Item 24: Avoid using _ directlyunless you have to.
Item 25: Use wantarray to write subroutines returning lists.
Item 26: Pass references instead of copies.
Item 27: Use hashes to pass named parameters.
Item 28: Use prototypes to get special argument parsing.
Item 29: Use subroutines to create other subroutines.
Chapter 5. References
Item 30: Understand references and reference syntax.
Item 31: Create lists of lists with references.
Item 32: Don t confuse anonymous arrays with list literals.
Item 33: Build C-style structs with anonymous hashes.
Item 34: Be careful with circular data structures.
Item 35: Use map and grep to manipulate complex data structures.
Chapter 6. Debugging
Item 36: Enable static andor run-time checks.
Item 37: Use debugging and profiling modules.
Item 38: Learn to use a debugging version of Perl.
Item 39: Test things by using the debugger as a Perl shell.
Item 40: Don t debug too much at once.
Chapter 7. Using Packages and Modules
Item 41: Don t reinvent the wheeluse Perl modules.
Item 42: Understand packages and modules.
Item 43: Make sure Perl can find the modules you are using.
Item 44: Use perldoc to extract documentation for installed modules.
Chapter 8. Writing Packages and Modules
Item 45: Use h2xs to generate module boilerplate.
Item 46: Embed your documentation with POD.
Item 47: Use XS for low-level interfaces andor speed.
Item 48: Submit your useful modules to the CPAN.
Chapter 9. Object-Oriented Programming
Item 49: Consider using Perl s object-oriented programming features.
Item 50: Understand method inheritance in Perl.
Item 51: Inherit data explicitly.
Item 52: Create invisible interfaces with tied variables.
Chapter 10. Miscellany
Item 53: Use pack and unpack for data munging.
Item 54: Know how and when to use eval, require, and do.
Item 55: Know when, and when not, to write networking code.
Item 56: Don t forget the file test operators.
Item 57: Access the symbol table with typeglobs.
Item 58: Use or a tied hash to evaluate expressions inside strings.
Item 59: Initialize with BEGIN
Item 60: Some interesting Perl one-liners.
Appendix A. sprintf
Conversion Specifiers for sprintf
Appendix B. Perl Resources
Index
Index SYMBOL
Index A
Index B
Index C
Index D
Index E
Index F
Index G
Index H
Index I
Index J
Index K
Index L
Index M
Index N
Index O
Index P
Index Q
Index R
Index S
Index T
Index U
Index V
Index W
Index X
Effective Perl Programming: Writing Better Programs with Perl
ISBN: 0201419750
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 1996
Pages: 116
Authors:
Joseph N. Hall
,
Randal Schwartz
BUY ON AMAZON
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