Perl6::Bible(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Perl6::Bible(3)NAMEPerl6::Bible - Perl 6 Design Documentations
VERSION
This document describes version 0.30 of Perl6::Bible, released February
28, 2006.
SYNOPSIS
> p6bible -h # Show p6bible help
> p6bible -c # Show Table of Contents
> p6bible s05 # Browse Synopsis 05
> p6bible 5 # Same thing
DESCRIPTION
This Perl module distribution contains all the latest Perl 6
documentation and a utility called "p6bible" for viewing it.
Below is the list of documents that are currently available; a number
in the column indicates the document is currently available. An
asterisk next to a number means that the document is an unofficial
draft written by a member of the Perl community but not approved by the
Perl 6 Design Team.
Contents
S01 The Ugly, the Bad, and the Good (A01)
S02 Bits and Pieces (A02) (E02)
S03 Operators (A03) (E03)
S04 Syntax (A04) (E04)
S05 Pattern Matching (A05) (E05)
S06 Subroutines (A06) (E06)
Formats (E07)
References
S09 Data Structures
S10 Packages
S11 Modules
S12 Objects (A12)
S13 Overloading
Tied Variables
Unicode
Interprocess Communication
S17* Threads
Compiling
The Command-Line Interface
The Perl Debugger (A20*)
Internals and Externals
S22* CPAN
Security
Common Practices
Portable Perl
S26* Perl Documentation
S27* Perl Culture
S28* Special Names
S29* Functions
The Standard Perl Library
Pragmatic Modules
Standard Modules
Diagnostic Modules
NOTES
Perl 6 developers are refactoring relevant introductions, tutorials,
specifications into the Perl6::Doc namespace; expect to see this module
subsumed by it in the near future.
If you are interested in helping out the documentation project, please
contact us on "irc.freenode.net #perl6" or "perl6-compiler@perl.org".
Synopses
The document codes "S01 - S33" refer to the Perl 6 Synopses.
The Synopsis documents are to be taken as the formal specification for
Perl 6 implementations, while still being reference documentation for
Perl 6, like _Programming Perl_ is for Perl 5.
Note that while these documents are considered "formal specifications",
they are still being subjected to the rigours of cross-examination
through implementation.
In other words, they may change slightly or radically. But the
expectation is that they are "very close" to the final shape of Perl 6.
Apocalypses (outdated)
The document codes "A01 - A33" refer to the Perl 6 Apocalypses.
Larry Wall started the Apocalypse series as a systematic way of
answering the RFCs (Request For Comments) that started the design
process for Perl 6. Each Apocalypse corresponds to a chapter in the
book _Programming Perl_, 3rd edition, and addresses the features
relating to that chapter in the book that are likely to change.
Larry addresses each relevant RFC, and gives reasons why he accepted or
rejected various pieces of it. But each Apocalypse also goes beyond a
simple "yes" and "no" response to attack the roots of the problems
identified in the RFCs.
Exegeses (outdated)
The document codes "E01 - E33" refer to the Perl 6 Exegeses.
Damian Conway's Exegeses are extensions of each Apocalypse. Each
Exegesis is built around a practical code example that applies and
explains the new ideas.
METHODSPerl6::Bible provides a class method to get the raw text of a document:
my $text = Perl6::Bible->get_raw('s01');
SCRIBES
* Brian Ingerson <ingy@cpan.org>
* Sam Vilain <samv@cpan.org>
* Audrey Tang <autrijus@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT
This Copyright applies only to the "Perl6::Bible" Perl software
distribution, not the documents bundled within.
A couple of paragraphs from _Perl 6 Essentials_ were used for the
overview.
Copyright (c) 2005. Brian Ingerson. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html
perl v5.14.0 2006-02-28 Perl6::Bible(3)
