[LA.pm] FW: Promo copies of _Perl 6 Now_ for Perl Mongers

[Robert Spier]

Is anyone interested in reviewing Perl 6 Now?

-R


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Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 11:10:02 -0800
From: Scott Walters <scott at illogics.org>
Subject: Promo copies of _Perl 6 Now_ for Perl Mongers

Hello Perl Mongers group leaders;

After nearly a year of work and tracking development on CPAN and Perl 6,
I recently finished writing _Perl 6 Now_ for Apress. 

Briefly, _Perl 6 Now_ is about doing Perl 6-like things with Perl 5. It 
introduces concepts many Perl 5 programmers won't have had the occasion to 
learn and demonstrates how to apply them in day to day (or exceptional) 
programming tasks. While it covers intermediate through advanced topics on this
subject, I'm most fond of some of the more advanced things: light weight arrays
and vector operations with PDL; subroutines that don't have to return with 
Coro; function currying with autoload; and strong typing with typesafety (my 
own module). Perl 6 features available for Perl 5 that don't tax the brain
are also included, such as aliasing without globs, syntax hacks implemented
with source filters (and some without), implicit object constructors,
and much more. For more information on the book, see http://perl6now.com.

My Apress marketing contact, Jullie Miller, wishes to have reviews available 
on-line at the time the book hits shelves. To this end, if you have a dedicated
reviewer in your ranks, let me at once and I'll have a PDF proofs on CD-ROM
sent off to you to pass to the reviewer.

Best regards,
-scott

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