Who Should Attend:
Intermediate Perl users who want to become experts, and experts who want to become more expert.

We'll emphasize using the unique features of Perl that make it different from other languages, so the techniques shown will probably be new even to programmers experienced with other languages. We'll cover five areas, with many detailed code examples.

Course Outline:

• A detailed explanation of globs, including the internals of the Perl symbol table, what globs are and what they can be used for, and how Exporter.pm works
• "tie," including the combination of "tie" with the exporter to create a module that exports a "magical" variable, and use of tied filehandles to evade a poor interface design in a module
• AUTOLOAD, with such common uses as method generation, autosplitting, and selfloading
• "Big techniques," including: caching and memoization; techniques for building input tokenizers in Perl using regular expressions; using a replacement for Perl's built-in debugger for code introspection and profiling.
• Ten quick and easy hacks that use Perl's unique features to perform common small operations such as combining two lists or loading a function on demand