in reply to Re: RFC: Perl Learning Plan
in thread RFC: Perl Learning Plan

Athanasius, thanks! I've dealt with context and autovivication enough to know they are there, but obviously not enough to remember to mention them. I think they would go in with "Data types and sigils" though; it would keep the concepts close together and the learner could more quickly see the richness of Perl's data types. Does that make sense?

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Re^3: RFC: Perl Learning Plan
by Athanasius (Archbishop) on Nov 21, 2020 at 12:54 UTC

    Yes indeed; but I would advise you to keep a sort of mental asterisk by these topics. In my experience, when Perl seems to be doing something strange, more often than not it’s because I’ve overlooked either context or autovivification.

    Which reminds me: you don’t mention debugging strategies, which you will need as you start to experiment with what you’re learning. Be sure to bookmark:

    The sixth strategy, deparsing using B::Deparse, is particularly useful to know.

    Cheers,

    Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

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      Added context, autovivication, and debugging. One of the things I do not want to do is write the tutorial. Other's have already done that, and done so much better than I can.

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