Hidden Treasures of the Perl Core, Part II

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    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/06/19/treasures.html

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    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/06/p6pdigest/20030615.html
    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/06/p6pdigest/20030608.html

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*** Featured Articles ***

Hidden Treasures of the Perl Core, part II
Casey continues to look at some lesser-known modules in the 
Perl core. 

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/06/19/treasures.html

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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-06-15 
All the latest from perl6-language, perl6-internals and even the 
Perl 6 track at YAPC from our regular summariser, Piers Cawley. 

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/06/p6pdigest/20030615.html

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Perl Design Patterns
The Gang-of-Four Design Patterns book had a huge impact on 
programming methodologies in the Java and C++ communities, but 
what do Design Patterns have to say to Perl programmers? Phil 
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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-06-08
IMCC becomes Parrot, continuation passing style, timely destruction 
YET AGAIN, multi-method dispatch and more.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/06/p6pdigest/20030608.html

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Regexp Power
In this short series of two articles, we'll take a look through 
some of the less well-known or less understood parts of the regular 
expression language, and see how they can be used to solve problems 
with more power and less fuss.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/06/06/regexps.html

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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-06-01
Much more work on IMCC, method calling syntax in Parrot, coroutines 
attempt to become threads, compile-time binding, and many more 
discussions in this week's Perl 6 news - all summaries as usual by 
the eminent Piers Cawley.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/06/p6pdigest/20030601.html

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Hidden Treasures of the Perl Core
The Perl Core comes with a lot of little modules to help you get 
your job done. Many of these modules are not well known. Even 
some of the well known modules have some nice features that are 
often overlooked. In this article, we'll dive into many of these 
hidden treasures of the Perl Core.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/05/29/treasures.html

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