Advanced Perl Programming (Perl Series)

Whether your knowledge of Perl is casual or deep, this book will make you a more accomplished programmer. It covers complex techniques for managing production-ready Perl programs and explains methods for manipulating data and objects that may have looked like magic before. Furthermore, it sets Perl in the context of a larger environment, giving you the background you need for dealing with networks, databases, and GUIs. It also includes a discussion of internals to help you program more efficiently and embed Perl within C or C within Perl. Major topics include the practical use of packages and classes (object-oriented programming), complex data structures, persistence (e.g., using a database), networking, graphical interfaces using the Tk toolkit, interaction with C language functions, embedding and extending the Perl interpreter, and selected internals. So you've learned Perl, but you're getting frustrated. Perhaps you've taken on a larger project than the ones you're used to. Or you want to add a user interface or a networking component. Or you need to do more complicated error trapping. Whether your knowledge of Perl is casual or deep, this book will make you a more accomplished programmer. Here you can learn the complex techniques for production-ready Perl programs. This book explains methods for manipulating data and objects that may have looked like magic before. Furthermore, it sets Perl in the context of a larger environment, giving you the background you need for dealing with networks, databases, and GUIs. The discussion of internals helps you program more efficiently and embed Perl within C or C within Perl. Major topics covered include: Practical use of packages and classes (object-oriented programming) Complex data structures Persistence (e.g., using a database) Networking Graphical interfaces, using the Tk toolkit Interaction with C language functions Embedding and extending the Perl interpreter In addition, the book patiently explains all sorts of language details you've always wanted to know more about, such as the use of references, trapping errors through the eval operator, non-blocking I/O, when closures are helpful, and using ties to trigger actions when data is accessed. You will emerge from this book a better hacker, and a proud master of Perl. Techniques For Managing Production-ready Perl Programs Are Covered In This Book, Which Also Outlines Methods For Manipulating Data And Objects . It Gives Background For Dealing With Networks, Databases, And Guis, And Includes A Discussion Of Internals To Help Readers Program More Efficiently. 1. Data References And Anonymous Storage -- 2. Implementing Complex Data Structures -- 3. Typeglobs And Symbol Tables -- 4. Subroutine References And Closures -- 5. Eval -- 6. Modules -- 7. Object-oriented Programming -- 8. Object Orientation: The Next Few Steps -- 9. Tie -- 10. Persistence -- 11. Implementing Object Persistence -- 12. Networking With Sockets -- 13. Networking: Implementing Rpc -- 14. User Interfaces With Tk -- 15. Gui Example: Tetris -- 16. Gui Example: Man Page Viewer -- 17. Template-driven Code Generation -- 18. Extending Perl: A First Course -- 19. Embedding Perl: The Easy Way -- 20. Perl Internals -- A. Tk Widget Reference -- B. Syntax Summary. Sriram Srinivasan. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "Whether your knowledge of Perl is casual or deep, this book will make you a more accomplished programmer. Here you can learn the complex techniques for production-ready Perl programs. This book explains methods for manipulating data and objects that may have looked like magic before. Furthermore, it sets Perl in the context of a larger environment, giving you the background you need for dealing with networks, databases, and GUIs. The discussion of internals helps you program more efficiently and embed Perl within C, or C within Perl."--BOOK JACKET. "In addition, the book patiently explains all sorts of language details you've always wanted to know more about, such as the use of references, trapping errors through the eval operator, non-blocking I/O, when closures are helpful, and using ties to trigger actions when data is accessed. You will emerge from this book a better hacker, and a proud master of Perl."--BOOK JACKET.