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         brian d foy
       The Perl Review
What's wrong with the perldocs
What's wrong with the perldocs
Where
   do you find
variable scoping?
     (it’s not in perlvar)
Where
  do you find
variable naming?
     (it’s not in perlvar)
perldoc -f

perldoc -v
operators?

methods?

switches?
What's wrong with the perldocs
What's wrong with the perldocs
What's wrong with the perldocs
Reference
     Tutorials
Alternate Tutorials
 Topic Overviews
   Quick Starts
       FAQ
      Lingua
perl perltoc perlartistic perlbook
         perlcommunity perldebug
              perldoc perlgpl
      perlglossary perlhist perlintro
perlpolicy perlrepository perltodo perlutil
perl5004delta perl5005delta perl5100delta perl5101delta
perl5110delta perl5111delta perl5112delta perl5113delta
perl5114delta perl5115delta perl5120delta perl5121delta
perl5122delta perl5130delta perl5131delta perl5132delta
perl5133delta perl5134delta perl5135delta perl5136delta
   perl561delta perl56delta perl570delta perl571delta
                  perldelta
  perl572delta perl573delta perl581delta perl582delta
  perl583delta perl584delta perl585delta perl586delta
   perl587delta perl588delta perl589delta perl58delta
  perl590delta perl591delta perl592delta perl593delta
               perl594delta perl595delta
perlaix perlamiga perlapollo perlbeos perlbs2000 perlce
      perlcygwin perldgux perldos perlebcdic perlepoc
 perlfreebsd perlhaiku perlhpux perlhurd perlirix perllinux
perlmacos perlmacosx perlmpeix perlnetware perlopenbsd
 perlos2 perlos390 perlos400 perlplan9 perlqnx perlriscos
    perlsolaris perlsymbian perltru64 perluts perlvmesa
                      perlvms perlvos
perlapi
 perlapio
  perlcall
  perlclib
perlembed
 perlguts
 perlhack
perlintern
  perliol
perlmroapi
  perlxs
 perlxstut
perlfaq
perlfaq1
perlfaq2
perlfaq3
perlfaq4
perlfaq5
perlfaq6
perlfaq7
perlfaq8
perlfaq9
perlboot
    perlbot
   perlmod
perlmodinstall
  perlmodlib
perlmodstyle
 perlnewmod
    perlobj
   perltooc
   perltoot
perlfaq
perlfaq1
perlfaq2
perlfaq3
perlfaq4
perlfaq5
perlfaq6
perlfaq7
perlfaq8
perlfaq9
perlre
   perlreapi
perlrebackslash
perlrecharclass
  perlrequick
   perlreref
   perlretut
  perlreguts
perldsc
 perldebtut
perlopentut
perlpacktut
 perlreftut
 perlthrtut
perlunicode
 perlunifaq
perluniintro
perluniprops
 perlunitut
perlcn
perljp
perlko
perltw
perldata perldiag perldebguts perldbmfilter perlipc
perllocale perlpod perlpodspec perllol perlnumber perlop
     perlfilter perlfork perlform perlfunc perllexwarn
perlpragma perlref perlrun perlsub perlsyn perltie perlvar
now → ?
perl is in git
    (perlrepository)
I’m a committer
Docs are for the
current version
perlfaq back in perl
books out of
  perlfaq2
    into
 perlbook
perlvar reordered,
  variable birth
   documented
perlexperiment
    lists iffy
    features
a new perlop
perlkeyword
Other happenings


• “Perl Documentation Team”
• Updates to perlipc

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