Perl6::Doc - all useful Perl 6 Docs in your command line
This document describes version 0.35 of Perl6::Doc, released February 3, 2008.
> p6doc -h # Show p6doc help > p6doc -c # Show Table of Contents > p6doc s05 # Browse Synopsis 05 > p6doc 5 # Same thing
This Perl module distribution contains all the latest Perl 6 documentation and a utility called p6doc for viewing it.
p6doc
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. The pages after the first section are anyway no Design docs.
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) S09 Data Structures S10 Packages S11 Modules S12 Objects (A12) S13 Overloading S16* IPC / IO / Signals S17* Concurrency Debugging (A20*) S22* CPAN Portable Perl S26 Perl Documentation S27* Perl Culture S28* Special Names S29 Functions F01 FAQ::Captures F02 FAQ::FUD O01 Overview O03 Overview::Operator O04 Overview::Smartmatch O05 Overview::Reduce O07 Overview::Variable O08 Overview::Data O10 Overview::File O12 Overview::Functions O14 Overview::Control O15 Overview::Subroutine O17 Overview::Object O20 Overview::Rule T01 Tutorial perlintro M01 Report on the Perl 6 Announcement M02 What is Perl 6 ? M03 A Plan for Pugs M04 Everyday Perl 6 M05 Yet Another Perl 6 Operator (Microarticles) M06 The Beauty of Perl 6 Parameter Passing
Perl6::Doc was before Perl6::Bible which is now depreciated. We changed that name, because we now deliver much more content than just the Apocalypses, Exegeses and Synopses.
If you are interested in helping out the documentation project, please contact us on irc.freenode.net #perl6 or perl6-compiler@perl.org. You can also help greatly by editing the official Perl 6 wiki under: http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6
irc.freenode.net #perl6
perl6-compiler@perl.org
These texts help to understand the genesis, but also the current state of the language Perl 6 on a syntactic level. (Thatswhy they are also called Perl 6 Bible, but maybe also because of Larry Wall's theological background.) They are placed in the "Perl6/Doc/Design" directory inside of this distribution.
The document codes A01 - A20 refer to the Perl 6 Apocalypses.
A01 - A20
Larry Wall started the Apocalypse (latin for revelation) 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.
The document codes E02 - E07 refer to the Perl 6 Exegeses.
E02 - E07
Damian Conway's Exegeses (latin for explanation) are extensions of each Apocalypse. Each Exegesis is built around a practical code example that applies and explains the new ideas.
The document codes S01 - S33 refer to the Perl 6 Synopses.
S01 - S33
The Synopsis (latin for comparison) started as a fast to read diff between Perl 5 and 6. Because they are also easier to maintain, all changes of the language, that are evolving from the design process are written down here first. The Apocalypses and Exegeses are frozen as "historic documents".
In other words, these docs may change slightly or radically. But the expectation is that they are "very close" to the final shape of Perl 6.
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 still being subjected to the rigours of cross-examination through implementation.
These are shorter summaries about a smaller specific topic. They are written mostly by the crazy Pugs people and replacing some of the outdated Synopses that are still marked as [Draft].
This is an community driven effort to translate the Perl 5 manpages into the shiny Perl 6 world. There are still are half way through the intro.
Reference styled set of wiki pages made by myself.
Helpful articles from perl.com (http://www.perl.com) and $foo (http://www.perl-magazin.de/). See the authors name in the section "SCRIBES", right below.
Perl6::Doc provides a class method to get the raw text of a document:
my $text = Perl6::Doc->get_raw('s01');
This Copyright applies only to the Perl6::Doc Perl software distribution, not the documents bundled within.
Perl6::Doc
Copyright (c) 2007. Ingy döt Net, Herbert Breunung. 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
Collection of docs is currently done by:
Herbert Breunung <lichtkind@cpan.org>
A couple of paragraphs from Perl 6 Essentials were used for the overview. Most of the Bible docs (Apocalypses, Exegeses, Synopses) are from the official Perl development site.
http://dev.perl.org/perl6/
All draft Synopses, Overview, FAQ and Tutorial pages were taken out of the Pugs SVN repository.
http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/docs/Perl6/
Articles are from:
http://perl.com/pub/q/Article_Archive#Perl%206
These are the authors of the included docs, named in the order their work was added :
* Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>
* Damian Conway <damian@conway.org>
* Luke Palmer <luke@luqui.org>
* Allison Randal <al@shadowed.net>
* Audrey Tang <autrijus@cpan.org>
* Ingy döt Net <ingy@cpan.org> ()
* Sam Vilain <samv@cpan.org> ()
* Kirrily "Skud" Robert <skud@cpan.org>
* Moritz Lenz <moritz@fau2ik3.org>
* David Koenig <karhu@u.washington.edu>
* Jonathan Scott Duff <duff@pobox.com>
* Phil Crow <philcrow2000@yahoo.com>
* chromatic <chromatic@oreilly.com>
* Mark-Jason Dominus <mjd@songline.com>
* Shmarya <shmarya.rubenstein@gmail.com>
* Pawel Murias <13pawel@gazeta.pl>
* Herbert Breunung <lichtkind@cpan.org>
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To install Perl6::Doc, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Perl6::Doc
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Perl6::Doc
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.