Advanced Perl Programming
Advanced Perl Programming By Sriram Srinivasan
August 1997
Pages: 430

| Table of Contents | Index | Sample Chapter | Colophon

Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 Data References and Anonymous Storage

    1. Referring to Existing Variables

    2. Using References

    3. Nested Data Structures

    4. Querying a Reference

    5. Symbolic References

    6. A View of the Internals

    7. References in Other Languages

    8. Resources

  2. Chapter 2 Implementing Complex Data Structures

    1. User-Defined Structures

    2. Example: Matrices

    3. Professors, Students, Courses

    4. Pass the Envelope

    5. Pretty-Printing

    6. Resources

  3. Chapter 3 Typeglobs and Symbol Tables

    1. Perl Variables, Symbol Table, and Scoping

    2. Typeglobs

    3. Typeglobs and References

    4. Filehandles, Directory Handles, and Formats

  4. Chapter 4 Subroutine References and Closures

    1. Subroutine References

    2. Using Subroutine References

    3. Closures

    4. Using Closures

    5. Comparisons to Other Languages

    6. Resources

  5. Chapter 5 Eval

    1. The String Form: Expression Evaluation

    2. The Block Form: Exception Handling

    3. Watch Your Quotes

    4. Using Eval for Expression Evaluation

    5. Using Eval for Efficiency

    6. Using Eval for Time-Outs

    7. Eval in Other Languages

    8. Resources

  6. Chapter 6 Modules

    1. Basic Package

    2. Packages and Files

    3. Package Initialization and Destruction

    4. Privacy

    5. Importing Symbols

    6. Nesting Packages

    7. Autoloading

    8. Accessing the Symbol Table

    9. Language Comparisons

  7. Chapter 7 Object-Oriented Programming

    1. OO: An Introduction

    2. Objects in Perl

    3. UNIVERSAL

    4. Recap of Conventions

    5. Comparison with Other OO Languages

    6. Resources

  8. Chapter 8 Object Orientation: The Next Few Steps

    1. Efficient Attribute Storage

    2. Delegation

    3. On Inheritance

    4. Resources

  9. Chapter 9 Tie

    1. Tying Scalars

    2. Tying Arrays

    3. Tying Hashes

    4. Tying Filehandles

    5. Example: Monitoring Variables

    6. Comparisons with Other Languages

  10. Chapter 10 Persistence

    1. Persistence Issues

    2. Streamed Data

    3. Record-Oriented Approach

    4. Relational Databases

    5. Resources

  11. Chapter 11 Implementing Object Persistence

    1. Adaptor: An Introduction

    2. Design Notes

    3. Implementation

    4. Resources

  12. Chapter 12 Networking with Sockets

    1. Networking Primer

    2. Socket API and IO::Socket

    3. Handling Multiple Clients

    4. Real-World Servers

    5. IO Objects and Filehandles

    6. Prebuilt Client Modules

    7. Resources

  13. Chapter 13 Networking: Implementing RPC

    1. Msg: Messaging Toolkit

    2. Remote Procedure Calls (RPC)

    3. Resources

  14. Chapter 14 User Interfaces with Tk

    1. Introduction to GUIs, Tk, and Perl/Tk

    2. Starting with Perl/Tk

    3. Widget Tour

    4. Geometry Management

    5. Timers

    6. Event Bindings

    7. Event Loops

    8. Resources

  15. Chapter 15 GUI Example: Tetris

    1. Introduction to Tetris

    2. Design

    3. Implementation

  16. Chapter 16 GUI Example: Man Page Viewer

    1. man and perlman

    2. Implementation

    3. Resources

  17. Chapter 17 Template-DrivenCode Generation

    1. On Code Generation

    2. Jeeves Example

    3. Jeeves Overview

    4. Jeeves Implementation

    5. Sample Specification Parser

    6. Resources

  18. Chapter 18 Extending Perl: A First Course

    1. Writing an Extension: Overview

    2. Example: Fractals with Perl

    3. SWIG Features

    4. XS Features

    5. Degrees of Freedom

    6. A Detour into Fractals

    7. Resources

  19. Chapter 19 Embedding Perl:The Easy Way

    1. Why Embed?

    2. Embedding Overview

    3. Examples

    4. Adding Extensions

    5. Resources

  20. Chapter 20 Perl Internals

    1. Reading the Source

    2. Architecture

    3. Perl Value Types

    4. Stacks and Messaging Protocol

    5. Meaty Extensions

    6. Easy Embedding API

    7. A Peek into the Future

    8. Resources

  1. Appendix A Tk Widget Reference

    1. Button

    2. Canvas

    3. Entry

    4. Listbox

    5. Menus

    6. Scrollbars and Scrolling

    7. Scale

    8. HList — Hierarchical List

  2. Appendix B Syntax Summary

    1. References

    2. Nested Data Structures

    3. Closures

    4. Modules

    5. Objects

    6. Dynamic Behavior

    7. Exception Handling

    8. Meta-Information

    9. Typeglobs

    10. Filehandles, Formats

  3. Colophon

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