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Re:An experiment-driven guide to Perl by mst on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @05:23PM (#7220928)
Actually, he does appear to explain &foo() later on, he just doesn't bother mentioning up front that it's completely different.

I think if you consider it as an academic piece, where you're supposed to read all of it and then think, it wouldn't be a bad introduction to perl as it was written in 2003.

Re:An experiment-driven guide to Perl by tredontho on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @06:46PM (#7221453)
Okay, I've read a few of Might's posts, and they're pretty interesting. But it irks me for some reason that nowhere in the posts can I find a date. Am I missing something? Where did you grab this 2003?
Re:An experiment-driven guide to Perl by mst on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @01:27PM (#7226198)
From the code. Were I to paranthesise the sentence, "perl as it was written in 2003" would be one clause.