Which book are you talking about? Learning Perl 4th Edition hits the shelves this month. You can Buy it on Amazon right now if you like.

We're also updating Learning Perl References, Objects and Modules, although that won't hit the stores until next spring (fingers crossed). It will show up with its new name, Intermediate Perl.

However, we're still in Perl 5 land, and Perl 5 has been around for a while. The point releases add some features, but not enough to make Programming Perl obsolete.

If you want Perl 6 stuff, O'Reilly has a couple of books on that, but Perl 6 is moving so fast that those are more out of date than the Perl 5 books.

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brian d foy <brian@stonehenge.com>

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