Section 1.4. Conclusion

1.4. Conclusion

We've now looked at many of the advanced techniques used in pure Perl modules, most of them involving how to manipulate the way Perl operates. We've divided those roughly into sections on messing with the symbol table, messing with the class model, and making code run where code might not be expected.

In a sense, everything else in this book will be built on the techniques that we've seen here. However, Perl is a pragmatic language, and instead of looking in the abstract at techniques that might be useful, we're going to see how these tricks are already being used in real-life codein CPAN modulesand how they can make your programming life easier.