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Perl Best Practices

ISBN: 0596001738
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2004
Pages: 350

Authors: Damian Conway

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• Perl Best Practices
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Preface
• Contents of This Book
• Conventions Used in This Book
• Code Examples
• Feedback
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Best Practices
• Section 1.1. Three Goals
• Section 1.2. This Book
• Section 1.3. Rehabiting
• Chapter 2. Code Layout
• Section 2.1. Bracketing
• Section 2.2. Keywords
• Section 2.3. Subroutines and Variables
• Section 2.4. Builtins
• Section 2.5. Keys and Indices
• Section 2.6. Operators
• Section 2.7. Semicolons
• Section 2.8. Commas
• Section 2.9. Line Lengths
• Section 2.10. Indentation
• Section 2.11. Tabs
• Section 2.12. Blocks
• Section 2.13. Chunking
• Section 2.14. Elses
• Section 2.15. Vertical Alignment
• Section 2.16. Breaking Long Lines
• Section 2.17. Non-Terminal Expressions
• Section 2.18. Breaking by Precedence
• Section 2.19. Assignments
• Section 2.20. Ternaries
• Section 2.21. Lists
• Section 2.22. Automated Layout
• Chapter 3. Naming Conventions
• Section 3.1. Identifiers
• Section 3.2. Booleans
• Section 3.3. Reference Variables
• Section 3.4. Arrays and Hashes
• Section 3.5. Underscores
• Section 3.6. Capitalization
• Section 3.7. Abbreviations
• Section 3.8. Ambiguous Abbreviations
• Section 3.9. Ambiguous Names
• Section 3.10. Utility Subroutines
• Chapter 4. Values and Expressions
• Section 4.1. String Delimiters
• Section 4.2. Empty Strings
• Section 4.3. Single-Character Strings
• Section 4.4. Escaped Characters
• Section 4.5. Constants
• Section 4.6. Leading Zeros
• Section 4.7. Long Numbers
• Section 4.8. Multiline Strings
• Section 4.9. Here Documents
• Section 4.10. Heredoc Indentation
• Section 4.11. Heredoc Terminators
• Section 4.12. Heredoc Quoters
• Section 4.13. Barewords
• Section 4.14. Fat Commas
• Section 4.15. Thin Commas
• Section 4.16. Low-Precedence Operators
• Section 4.17. Lists
• Section 4.18. List Membership
• Chapter 5. Variables
• Section 5.1. Lexical Variables
• Section 5.2. Package Variables
• Section 5.3. Localization
• Section 5.4. Initialization
• Section 5.5. Punctuation Variables
• Section 5.6. Localizing Punctuation Variables
• Section 5.7. Match Variables
• Section 5.8. Dollar-Underscore
• Section 5.9. Array Indices
• Section 5.10. Slicing
• Section 5.11. Slice Layout
• Section 5.12. Slice Factoring
• Chapter 6. Control Structures
• Section 6.1. If Blocks
• Section 6.2. Postfix Selectors
• Section 6.3. Other Postfix Modifiers
• Section 6.4. Negative Control Statements
• Section 6.5. C-Style Loops
• Section 6.6. Unnecessary Subscripting
• Section 6.7. Necessary Subscripting
• Section 6.8. Iterator Variables
• Section 6.9. Non-Lexical Loop Iterators
• Section 6.10. List Generation
• Section 6.11. List Selections
• Section 6.12. List Transformation
• Section 6.13. Complex Mappings
• Section 6.14. List Processing Side Effects
• Section 6.15. Multipart Selections
• Section 6.16. Value Switches
• Section 6.17. Tabular Ternaries
• Section 6.18. do-while Loops
• Section 6.19. Linear Coding
• Section 6.20. Distributed Control
• Section 6.21. Redoing
• Section 6.22. Loop Labels
• Chapter 7. Documentation
• Section 7.1. Types of Documentation
• Section 7.2. Boilerplates
• Section 7.3. Extended Boilerplates
• Section 7.4. Location
• Section 7.5. Contiguity
• Section 7.6. Position
• Section 7.7. Technical Documentation
• Section 7.8. Comments
• Section 7.9. Algorithmic Documentation
• Section 7.10. Elucidating Documentation
• Section 7.11. Defensive Documentation
• Section 7.12. Indicative Documentation
• Section 7.13. Discursive Documentation
• Section 7.14. Proofreading
• Chapter 8. Built-in Functions
• Section 8.1. Sorting
• Section 8.2. Reversing Lists
• Section 8.3. Reversing Scalars
• Section 8.4. Fixed-Width Data
• Section 8.5. Separated Data
• Section 8.6. Variable-Width Data
• Section 8.7. String Evaluations
• Section 8.8. Automating Sorts
• Section 8.9. Substrings
• Section 8.10. Hash Values
• Section 8.11. Globbing
• Section 8.12. Sleeping
• Section 8.13. Mapping and Grepping
• Section 8.14. Utilities
• Chapter 9. Subroutines
• Section 9.1. Call Syntax
• Section 9.2. Homonyms
• Section 9.3. Argument Lists
• Section 9.4. Named Arguments
• Section 9.5. Missing Arguments
• Section 9.6. Default Argument Values
• Section 9.7. Scalar Return Values
• Section 9.8. Contextual Return Values
• Section 9.9. Multi-Contextual Return Values
• Section 9.10. Prototypes
• Section 9.11. Implicit Returns
• Section 9.12. Returning Failure
• Chapter 10. IO
• Section 10.1. Filehandles
• Section 10.2. Indirect Filehandles
• Section 10.3. Localizing Filehandles
• Section 10.4. Opening Cleanly
• Section 10.5. Error Checking
• Section 10.6. Cleanup
• Section 10.7. Input Loops
• Section 10.8. Line-Based Input
• Section 10.9. Simple Slurping
• Section 10.10. Power Slurping
• Section 10.11. Standard Input
• Section 10.12. Printing to Filehandles
• Section 10.13. Simple Prompting
• Section 10.14. Interactivity
• Section 10.15. Power Prompting
• Section 10.16. Progress Indicators
• Section 10.17. Automatic Progress Indicators
• Section 10.18. Autoflushing
• Chapter 11. References
• Section 11.1. Dereferencing
• Section 11.2. Braced References
• Section 11.3. Symbolic References
• Section 11.4. Cyclic References
• Chapter 12. Regular Expressions
• Section 12.1. Extended Formatting
• Section 12.2. Line Boundaries
• Section 12.3. String Boundaries
• Section 12.4. End of String
• Section 12.5. Matching Anything
• Section 12.6. Lazy Flags
• Section 12.7. Brace Delimiters
• Section 12.8. Other Delimiters
• Section 12.9. Metacharacters
• Section 12.10. Named Characters
• Section 12.11. Properties
• Section 12.12. Whitespace
• Section 12.13. Unconstrained Repetitions
• Section 12.14. Capturing Parentheses
• Section 12.15. Captured Values
• Section 12.16. Capture Variables
• Section 12.17. Piecewise Matching
• Section 12.18. Tabular Regexes
• Section 12.19. Constructing Regexes
• Section 12.20. Canned Regexes
• Section 12.21. Alternations
• Section 12.22. Factoring Alternations
• Section 12.23. Backtracking
• Section 12.24. String Comparisons
• Chapter 13. Error Handling
• Section 13.1. Exceptions
• Section 13.2. Builtin Failures
• Section 13.3. Contextual Failure
• Section 13.4. Systemic Failure
• Section 13.5. Recoverable Failure
• Section 13.6. Reporting Failure
• Section 13.7. Error Messages
• Section 13.8. Documenting Errors
• Section 13.9. OO Exceptions
• Section 13.10. Volatile Error Messages
• Section 13.11. Exception Hierarchies
• Section 13.12. Processing Exceptions
• Section 13.13. Exception Classes
• Section 13.14. Unpacking Exceptions
• Chapter 14. Command-Line Processing
• Section 14.1. Command-Line Structure
• Section 14.2. Command-Line Conventions
• Section 14.3. Meta-options
• Section 14.4. In-situ Arguments
• Section 14.5. Command-Line Processing
• Section 14.6. Interface Consistency
• Section 14.7. Interapplication Consistency
• Chapter 15. Objects
• Section 15.1. Using OO
• Section 15.2. Criteria
• Section 15.3. Pseudohashes
• Section 15.4. Restricted Hashes
• Section 15.5. Encapsulation
• Section 15.6. Constructors
• Section 15.7. Cloning
• Section 15.8. Destructors
• Section 15.9. Methods
• Section 15.10. Accessors
• Section 15.11. Lvalue Accessors
• Section 15.12. Indirect Objects
• Section 15.13. Class Interfaces
• Section 15.14. Operator Overloading
• Section 15.15. Coercions
• Chapter 16. Class Hierarchies
• Section 16.1. Inheritance
• Section 16.2. Objects
• Section 16.3. Blessing Objects
• Section 16.4. Constructor Arguments
• Section 16.5. Base Class Initialization
• Section 16.6. Construction and Destruction
• Section 16.7. Automating Class Hierarchies
• Section 16.8. Attribute Demolition
• Section 16.9. Attribute Building
• Section 16.10. Coercions
• Section 16.11. Cumulative Methods
• Section 16.12. Autoloading
• Chapter 17. Modules
• Section 17.1. Interfaces
• Section 17.2. Refactoring
• Section 17.3. Version Numbers
• Section 17.4. Version Requirements
• Section 17.5. Exporting
• Section 17.6. Declarative Exporting
• Section 17.7. Interface Variables
• Section 17.8. Creating Modules
• Section 17.9. The Standard Library
• Section 17.10. CPAN
• Chapter 18. Testing and Debugging
• Section 18.1. Test Cases
• Section 18.2. Modular Testing
• Section 18.3. Test Suites
• Section 18.4. Failure
• Section 18.5. What to Test
• Section 18.6. Debugging and Testing
• Section 18.7. Strictures
• Section 18.8. Warnings
• Section 18.9. Correctness
• Section 18.10. Overriding Strictures
• Section 18.11. The Debugger
• Section 18.12. Manual Debugging
• Section 18.13. Semi-Automatic Debugging
• Chapter 19. Miscellanea
• Section 19.1. Revision Control
• Section 19.2. Other Languages
• Section 19.3. Configuration Files
• Section 19.4. Formats
• Section 19.5. Ties
• Section 19.6. Cleverness
• Section 19.7. Encapsulated Cleverness
• Section 19.8. Benchmarking
• Section 19.9. Memory
• Section 19.10. Caching
• Section 19.11. Memoization
• Section 19.12. Caching for Optimization
• Section 19.13. Profiling
• Section 19.14. Enbugging
• Appendix A. Essential Perl Best Practices
• Appendix B. Perl Best Practices
• Section B.1. Chapter 2, Code Layout
• Section B.2. Chapter 3, Naming Conventions
• Section B.3. Chapter 4, Values and Expressions
• Section B.4. Chapter 5, Variables
• Section B.5. Chapter 6, Control Structures
• Section B.6. Chapter 7, Documentation
• Section B.7. Chapter 8, Built-in Functions
• Section B.8. Chapter 9, Subroutines
• Section B.9. Chapter 10, IO
• Section B.10. Chapter 11, References
• Section B.11. Chapter 12, Regular Expressions
• Section B.12. Chapter 13, Error Handling
• Section B.13. Chapter 14, Command-Line Processing
• Section B.14. Chapter 15, Objects
• Section B.15. Chapter 16, Class Hierarchies
• Section B.16. Chapter 17, Modules
• Section B.17. Chapter 18, Testing and Debugging
• Section B.18. Chapter 19, Miscellanea
• Appendix C. Editor Configurations
• Section C.1. vim
• Section C.2. vile
• Section C.3. Emacs
• Section C.4. BBEdit
• Section C.5. TextWrangler
• Appendix D. Recommended Modules and Utilities
• Section D.1. Recommended Core Modules
• Section D.2. Recommended CPAN Modules
• Section D.3. Utility Subroutines
• Appendix Bibliography. Bibliography
• Colophon
• About the Author
• Colophon
• Index
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