perlfunc Perl builtin functions
perlvar Perl predefined variables
perlsub Perl subroutines
- perlmod Perl modules
+ perlmod Perl modules: how they work
+ perlmodlib Perl modules: how to write and use
perlform Perl formats
perllocale Perl locale support
perlguts Perl internal functions for those doing extensions
perlcall Perl calling conventions from C
+ perlhist Perl history records
+
(If you're intending to read these straight through for the first time,
the suggested order will tend to reduce the number of forward references.)
=item * Innumerable Unbundled Modules
-The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network described in L<perlmod>
-contains hundreds of plug-and-play modules full of reusable
-code. See F<http://www.perl.com/CPAN> for a site near you.
+The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network described in L<perlmodlib>
+contains hundreds of plug-and-play modules full of reusable code.
+See F<http://www.perl.com/CPAN> for a site near you.
=item * Compilability
Larry Wall <F<larry@wall.org>>, with the help of oodles of other folks.
+If your Perl success stories and testimonials may be of help to others
+who wish to advocate the use of Perl in their applications,
+or if you wish to simply express your gratitude to Larry and the
+Perl developers, please write to <F<perl-thanks@perl.org>>.
+
=head1 FILES
"/tmp/perl-e$$" temporary file for -e commands
The B<-w> switch is not mandatory.
Perl is at the mercy of your machine's definitions of various
-operations such as type casting, atof(), and sprintf(). The latter
-can even trigger a core dump when passed ludicrous input values.
+operations such as type casting, atof(), and floating-point
+output with sprintf().
If your stdio requires a seek or eof between reads and writes on a
particular stream, so does Perl. (This doesn't apply to sysread()