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Perl 6 Quick Reference Guide

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 12, 2002 @02:46AM from the new-animals-all-the-time dept.

Jodrell writes: "(via PerlMonks) Bernd Dulfer has posted a Quick Reference Guide to Perl 6, based on Larry's Apocalypses and Damian's Exegesises, as well as Parrot. The Guide is available in POD and RTF formats."

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Re:POD? by Rysc · 2002-09-12 03:19 · Score: 2, Informative

POD stands for Plain Old Documentation, and is perls inline documentation scheme. I presume a .pod file would be readable by perldoc, same as any other POD documentation.

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Re:Die! Nitwit! Die! by j7953 · 2002-09-12 05:56 · Score: 3, Informative

Slashdot's summary is wrong. The document is called "Perl 6 Quick Reference."

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Octopods by fm6 · 2002-09-12 06:04 · Score: 3, Informative

Not that bad. RTF is readable by WordPad and Word, so all Windows people and most Mac people can read it. You can even read it with StarOffice, assuming it doesn't have too many weird formatting constructs.
Also, Perl comes with a bunch of utilities for translating POD into other formats, including HTML.
Re:parrot by matzim · 2002-09-12 06:09 · Score: 2, Informative

i must say that parrot is neat -- i've checked out latest current version, 0.0.2 iirc
Actually, it's 0.0.8.1! (http://www.parrotcode.org is a little out of date.) The latest releases are in JGOFF's directory on CPAN (http://www.cpan.org/) or you can look it up on http://search.cpan.org/.