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Perl 6 Quick Reference Guide

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. perl6/parrot works great by d_i_r_t_y · · Score: 4, Interesting

    i've written a few short scripts in perl6/parrot since its initial releases (i write perl for a living) and i have to say i think it's great! hyper-operators are cool! and prototyped subroutines are long overdue. de-referencing with '.' - in perl - is a little weird though. the new regular expression stuff is nothing short of revolutionary methinks.

    as one who's working on 125K lines of perl app, i'll reserve my final judgement of perl6 for the apocolypse that deals with OO in perl6. OO in perl *does* work, though it takes (too much) discipline and good documentation.

    all very exciting methinks. especially the potential of the parrot VM. can't wait for what's to come.
    matt

  2. Re:Die! Nitwit! Die! by j7953 · · Score: 3, Informative

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

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  3. Octopods by fm6 · · 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.

  4. Re:POD and RTF formats by matzim · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Uh...

    $ pod2html perl6_qref.pod >perl6_qref.html
    $ pod2text perl6_qref.pod >perl6_qref.txt

    (Though I'd suspect that if you really want to be using Perl 6 right now, you'd already know what to do with POD documents. IMHO.)