I think at least part of the problem was that I was very new to Perl and probably didn't have enough nomenclature sorted out. Specific details are hard to remember - this was six months ago after all.

I recall looking for help with populating HoH and AoH type structures and getting very frustrated that there seemed to be examples that were one letter away (AoA ...) from what I wanted to do, but nothing that addressed what I was looking for. Often there didn't seem to be anything that pointed me in the right direction or I couldn't find it. It took a while for dereferencing syntax to sink in and looking that stuff up seemed to be somewhat of a chore.

These days I tend more to use the "Perl Pocket Reference" and perldoc, or the Chatterbox.

I did enjoy reading the Camel and learned a lot from it that way, but not as a reference.

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

In reply to Re^3: What's missing in Perl books? by GrandFather
in thread What's missing in Perl books? by brian_d_foy

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