[Mastering-perl] Re: Welcome to the "Mastering-perl" mailing list

[David Golden]

brian d foy wrote:
> Bill Riker sent me a message off list (and a lot of people have been
> doing that, which is fine I guess, but harder to share with everyone
> else who might have something to add)

You may want to set the "reply-to" to the list rather than the sender if 
you really want to encourage on-list discussion.

> I'll try to answer everything with this completely inadequate,
> reductionist answer: I can't put everything in the book, so topics

I recently listened to the Peter Wainwright Perlcast discussing Pro 
Perl.  While I haven't read that, it sounds like he attempted to be 
completely comprehensive at least of everything included in core perl. 
How do you see Mastering Perl being similar to or different to that kind 
of approach?  Ditto for Effective Perl Programming -- are you looking to 
cover language features?  Idioms?  Both?

Regards,

David