Apocalypse 6: Subroutines

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Hello, world! This is Simon Cozens, www.perl.com managing editor, 
bringing you the latest goings-on from the world of Perl and our 
own site.


* Perl at large.


It's finally here! Apocalypse 6 is the latest of the Perl 6 
design documents, and deals with the definition and calling 
of subroutines. I have to admit I found it worrying at first, 
but I promise, it grows on you. Larry has once again blended 
the simple and the complex to produce a flexible, powerful way 
to get things done. I'm not going to give away any of the 
surprises, so go see for yourself:

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/03/07/apocalypse6.html


* What's new on www.perl.com?


As well as the Apocalypse, we have a regular Perl 6 summary from 
Piers, with the continuing debate over future improvements to IMCC: 

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/03/p6pdigest/20030302.html


And Stas Bekman's series on optimizing mod_perl begins to draw to 
a close with this penultimate article. Once again he looks at ways 
to gain speed by fiddling with the Apache configuration settings: 

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/03/04/mod_perl.html


Happy hacking!


Simon Cozens
<[email protected]>


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