[rt-users] Perl help

[Stephen Turner]

On Tue, 26 May 2009 19:59:15 -0400, Ken Crocker <kfcrocker at lbl.gov> wrote:

> I don't see or understand the mechanisms that make the "->" work. My  
> problem is that I am completely sight-oriented. It's the old saying, "I  
> can hear you talking, but I can't see a word you say". That's me. I've  
> coded in over 20 languages in my 40 years in this business, but no perl.  
> Perl is EXTREMELY harder to understand than COBOL, SQL, even Assembler.  
> I have no framework of reference points to "See" what the explanations  
> of the code means.

Kenn,

I found an online book "Beginning Perl" that would answer many of your  
questions -

http://www.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/

The "Object-Oriented Perl" chapter in particular explains the "->" syntax.

Might be worth a try - and it's free!

Steve