Written by Perl programmers for Perl programmers, this resource is organized in an encyclopedic format, with thumbtabs, for easy access to all aspects of Perl. It features all the new and changed functions in Perl 5 as well as Perl 4 functions carried over. The book offers common programming techniques for Perl on a function-by-function basis. The CD includes a hypertext version of the book, EarthLink TotalAccess Internet connection package with Netscape Navigator, and code samples and shareware.
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no index, no concept discussion, incomplete specification,
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This review is from: The Perl 5 Programmer's Reference (Paperback)
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Book has factual errors and important omissions,
This review is from: The Perl 5 Programmer's Reference (Paperback)
This supplements prior review. Description of ARGV on page 328 is in error. $ARGV[0]is first argument on command line NOT the script name (as it would be in C). Also, I can find no description on use of backquotes in this manual. It looks nice, is generally well-organized, but incomplete and inaccurate.
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Incomplete as a "complete" reference,
This review is from: The Perl 5 Programmer's Reference (Paperback)
When I buy and read "The Ultimate Resource for Perl 5 Professionals! The most complete, concise reference available...", I expect the kind of detail that eliminates the need for additional Perl 5 reference books and the need to exhaustively test exactly how functions work. One simple example: gmtime takes a single date/time argument and returns 9 individual date and time variables, but this book doesn't provide details about the values returned in those variables. Is the month represented as 1 to 12, or 0 to 11, for example? It's up to the reader of the book to figure that out. Not hard to do, but it greatly diminishes the value of the book when that level of detail is not provided.
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