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Advanced Perl Programming Techniques

This class demonstrates a range of advanced programming techniques, that are especially suited to Perl development.

Topics covered include:

• Declarative techniques

• Table driven coding

• Code generation from data structures

• Code generation from DSLs

• Polymorphic interfaces

• Coding by side-effect

• Data transformations via hierarchical regexes

• Simplifying data structure manipulation with aliases

• Data-flow techniques in Perl

• Coding without side-effects

• Functional(-ish) programming in Perl

• Vectoring your data

• Side-effect free regex substitutions

• Closure-based programming

• "Priming" techniques (argument prebinding)

• Wrapper subroutines

• Error handling techniques

• Comprehensive exception handling via autodie

• Safer exception handling via TryCatch or Try::Tiny (and friends)

• Non-exceptional error-handling via return objects

Course format

1-day or 2-day seminar

Who should attend

Experience Perl developers looking to take the next step up to more powerful, more efficient, and more maintainable implementation techniques