Perl 6 by Example
Perl 6 by Example
About the Book
This book will be published by Apress as Perl 6 Fundamentals A Primer with Examples, Projects, and Case Studies. All readers who have purchased it so far will get a free ebook version of th finished book.
About the Author
Table of Contents
- 1. How To Get a Copy of the Apress Version of This Book
- Foreword
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2. What is Perl 6?
- 2.1 Perl 5, the Older Sister
- 2.2 Library Availability
- 2.3 Why Should I Use Perl 6?
- 2.4 Summary
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3. Running Rakudo Perl 6
- 3.1 Installers
- 3.2 Docker
- 3.3 Building from Source
- 3.4 Testing your Rakudo Star Installation
- 3.5 Documentation
- 3.6 Summary
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4. Formatting a Sudoku Puzzle
- 4.1 Making the Sudoku Playable
- 4.2 Shortcuts, Constants, and more Shortcuts
- 4.3 IO and other Tragedies
- 4.4 Get Creative!
- 4.5 Summary
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5. Datetime Conversion for the Command Line
- 5.1 Libraries to the Rescue
- 5.2 DateTime Formatting
- 5.3 Looking the Other Way
- 5.4 Dealing with Time
- 5.5 Tighten Your Seat Belt
- 5.6 MAIN Magic
- 5.7 Automated Tests
- 5.8 Summary
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6. Testing
say()- 6.1 Summary
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7. Silent Cron, a Cron Wrapper
- 7.1 Running Commands Asynchronously
- 7.2 Implementing Timeouts
- 7.3 More on Promises
- 7.4 Possible Extensions
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7.5 Refactoring and Automated Tests
- Refactoring
- Mocking and Testing
- Improving Reliability and Timing
- Installing a Module
- 7.6 Summary
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8. Stateful Silent Cron
- 8.1 Persistent Storage
- 8.2 Developing the Storage Backend
- 8.3 Using the Storage Backend
- 8.4 Room for Expansion
- 8.5 Summary
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9. Review of the Perl 6 Basics
- 9.1 Variables and Scoping
- 9.2 Subroutines
- 9.3 Classes and Objects
- 9.4 Concurrency
- 9.5 Outlook
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10. Parsing INI files using Regexes and Grammars
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10.1 Regex Basics
- Character Classes
- Quantifiers
- Alternatives
- 10.2 Parsing the INI Primitives
- 10.3 Putting Things Together
- 10.4 Backtracking
- 10.5 Grammars
- 10.6 Extracting Data from the Match
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10.7 Generating Good Error Messages
- Failure is Normal
- Detecting Harmful Failure
- Providing Context
- Shortcuts for Parsing Matching Pairs
- 10.8 Write Your Own Grammars
- 10.9 Summary
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10.1 Regex Basics
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11. A File and Directory Usage Graph
- 11.1 Reading File Sizes
- 11.2 Generating a Tree Map
- 11.3 Flame Graphs
- 11.4 Functional Refactorings
- 11.5 More Language Support for Functional Programming
- 11.6 More Improvements
- 11.7 Explore!
- 11.8 Summary
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12. A Unicode Search Tool
- 12.1 Code Points, Grapheme Clusters and Bytes
- 12.2 Numbers
- 12.3 Other Unicode Properties
- 12.4 Collation
- 12.5 Summary
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13. Plotting Using Inline::Python and Matplotlib
- 13.1 Extracting the Stats
- 13.2 Plotting with Python
- 13.3 Bridging the Gap
- 13.4 Using the Bridge to Plot
- 13.5 Stacked Plots
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13.6 Idiomatic Use of Inline::Python
- Types of Python APIs
- Mapping the Function API
- An Object-Oriented Interface
- 13.7 Summary
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14. What’s Next?
- 14.1 Scaling Your Codebase
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14.2 Packaging Your Application
- Packaging as a Traditional Perl 6 Module
- Deploying with Docker
- Windows Installers
- 14.3 Closing Thoughts
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
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