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| Preface | |
| Perl or Perl? | |
| Obtaining Perl | |
| Historical Perl | |
| Who This Book Is For | |
| Typographical Conventions | |
| For Further Reference | |
| Perl Versions | |
| Perl 6 | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Chapter 1 | Introduction (First Reponse) |
| 1.1 | First Things First |
| 1.2 | Reasons for Inheritance |
| 1.3 | What Next? |
| 1.4 | Observe the Program in Its Natural Habitat |
| 1.5 | Get Personal |
| 1.6 | Strictness |
| 1.7 | Warnings |
| Chapter 2 | Surveying the Scene |
| 2.1 | Versions |
| 2.2 | Part or Whole? |
| 2.3 | Find the Dependenciess |
| Chapter 3 | Test Now, Test Forever (Diagnosis) |
| 3.1 | Testing Your Patience |
| 3.2 | Extreme Testing |
| 3.3 | An Example Using Test::Modules |
| 3.4 | Testing Legacy Code |
| 3.5 | A Final Encouragement |
| Chapter 4 | |
| 4.1 | Strategizing |
| 4.2 | Why Are You Doing This? |
| 4.3 | Style |
| 4.4 | Comments |
| 4.5 | Restyling |
| 4.6 | Variable Renaming |
| 4.7 | Editing |
| 4.8 | Line Editing |
| 4.9 | Antipatterns |
| 4.10 | Evolution |
| Chapter 5 | The Disciplined Perl Program |
| 5.1 | Package Variables vs. Lexical Variables |
| 5.2 | Warnings and strictness |
| 5.3 | use strict in Detail |
| 5.4 | use warnings in Detail |
| 5.5 | Selective Disabling |
| 5.6 | Caveat Programmer |
| 5.7 | Perl Poetry |
| Chapter 6 | Restructuring (The Operating Table) |
| 6.1 | Keep It Brief |
| 6.2 | Cargo Cult Perl |
| 6.3 | Escaping the Global Variable Trap |
| 6.4 | Debugging the Strategies |
| Chapter 7 | Upgrading (Plastic Surgery) |
| 7.1 | Stragegies |
| 7.2 | Perl 4 |
| 7.3 | Perl 5.000 |
| 7.4 | Perl 5.001 |
| 7.5 | Perl 5.002 |
| 7.6 | Perl 5.003 |
| 7.7 | Perl 5.004 |
| 7.8 | Perl 5.005 |
| 7.9 | Perl 5.6.0 |
| 7.10 | Perl 5.6.1 |
| 7.11 | Perl 5.8.0 |
| 7.12 | Perl 5.8.1 |
| 7.13 | Perl 5.8.2 |
| 7.14 | Perl 5.8.3 |
| Chapter 8 | Using Modules (Genetic Enhancement) |
| 8.1 | The Case for CPAN |
| 8.2 | Using CPAN |
| 8.3 | Improving Code with Modules |
| 8.4 | Custom Perls |
| Chapter 9 | Analysis (Forensic Pathology) |
| 9.1 | Static Analysis |
| 9.2 | Eliminating Superfluous Code |
| 9.3 | Finding Inefficient Code |
| 9.4 | Debugging |
| Chapter 10 | Increasing Maintainability (Prophylaxis) |
| 10.1 | Making it Robust |
| 10.2 | Advanced Brevity |
| 10.3 | Documentation |
| 10.4 | Custom Warnings |
| 10.5 | Version Control System Integration |
| Chapter 11 | A Case Study |
| 11.1 | The Setup |
| 11.2 | Triage |
| 11.3 | Desperately Seeking Sanity |
| 11.4 | Coming into the 21st Century |
| 11.5 | Incorporating Modules Effectively, Part 1 |
| 11.6 | Incorporating Modules Effectively, Part 2 |
| 11.7 | Making It Mature, Part 1 |
| 11.8 | Making It Mature, Part 2 |
| 11.9 | Making It Mature, Part 3 |
| 11.10 | Advanced Modification |
| Chapter 12 | |
| 12.1 | In Conclusion |
| 12.2 | Perl People |
| 12.3 | A Final Thought |
| Appendix: | Source Code |
| Tie::Array::Bounded | |
| Benchmark::TimeTick | |
| smallprofpp | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
| About the Author | |
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