note missingthepoint <p>First, welcome to the Monastery :)</p> <p>May I ask how you're trying to learn? There are good ways and bad ways (and terrible ways, hopefully we can steer you clear of those).</p> <p>I agree with [ELISHEVA]'s advice: write lots of small, simple programs, that each demonstrate one particular fact about how Perl works. Experiment. In this way you can "ask questions" about how Perl works. For instance:</p> <c> my $a = 'perl'; my $b = '$a is good'; my $c = "$a is good"; print "a=$a\n"; print "b=$b\n"; print "c=$c\n"; </c> <p>Running this program is equivalent to asking "do variables interpolate in 1) single-quoted strings (<c>$b</c>) and 2) double-quoted strings (<c>$c</c>)?" (By interpolate, I mean, are the variables replaced by their values, or do you just see the variable's name.) Running this will give you the answer.</p> <p>If you can give us more information on how you're going about learning, we can probably help. :)</p> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-668384"> <hr /> <small>The zeroeth step in writing a module is to make sure that there isn't already a decent one in CPAN. (-- [mod://Pod::Simple::Subclassing])</small> </div></div> 777715 777715