Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs

Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs
by Mark Jason Dominus

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann 2005
ISBN/ASIN: 1558607013
ISBN-13: 9781558607019
Number of pages: 592

Description:
Perl incorporates many features that have their roots in other languages such as Lisp. These advanced features are not well understood and are rarely used by most Perl programmers, but they are very powerful. One of these techniques is writing functions that manufacture or modify other functions.