Pre-order Learning Perl, Fifth Edition

brian_d_foy on 2008-05-01T16:07:02

Our latest update to Learning Perl is now available for pre-order on O'Reilly and Amazon. It should be here before OSCON 2008, but I don't know how soon before OSCON that is.

In the new edition, we've updated the text for Perl 5.10. The 5.10 features we cover are:

  • using say()
  • defined-or operator
  • named captures in regular expressions
  • smart matching
  • stacked file test operators
  • state variables
  • given-when


Along with that, we've updated the text for the latest Perl history and happenings, and made modules a more important part of the book.