Subject: Perl 5.004 Reference Guide released
From: [email-masked] (Johan Vromans)
Date: 31 Oct 1997 17:50:05 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc

The Perl Reference Guide is a typeset quick reference guide to Larry
Wall's Perl program.

It contains a concise description of all Perl 5 statements, functions,
variables and lots of other useful information. The Guide is based on
Perl version 5, patchlevel 4 (Perl 5.004).

The purpose of the Reference Guide is to aid in the use of Perl, to
look up the syntax of specific functions, statements and the meaning
of built-in variables. It is *NOT* a self-contained user guide - basic
knowledge of the Perl language is required. It is *NOT* complete -
some of the more obscure variants of perl constructs have been left
out. But all functions and variables are mentioned in at least one way
they can be used.

The Reference Guide is designed and created by Johan Vromans using the
LaTex typesetting system. The distribution contains a ready-to-use
PostScript file. A special formatting tool, written in Perl, makes it
possible to reformat this PostScript output for reproduction in a
number of formats.

Visit your favourite CPAN site and fetch doc/perlref-5.004.1.tar.gz.

The Reference Guide is also available as a booklet published by
O'Reilly & Associates, see the README file for details.

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