Re: (1)[0] ok but not 1[0]

precedence". IMO, it is an indication of the sad state of affair with
Perl documentation that there is no place in perl docs which lists all
of them...

Thats what I think too, although I wouldn't go as far as to label it
sad. I would like to have a book for Perl what the book "The C++
Programming Language" is for C++. Something very clear, very concise,
clearly naming things and give things clear semantics. "Programming
Perl" is a good book, but in my opinion by far not as concise as "The C
++ Programming Language". To be fair I am a Perl novice, and it might
be to early to make such a statement.

I am writing a documentation for Perl for myself. I hope it turns out
more concise, at least in my view, as the documentation about Perl I
have currently in my hands. I am writing it to learn Perl, to order my
thoughts, my understanding of Perl. It has a lot of positive side
effects though
- I learn Perl pretty well
- I learn LaTeX a bit (i decided to write the document in latex)
- I learn how to efficiently edit LaTex files in Emacs
- I learn more about meta syntax notations. I am using an own syntax
notation which I created on this occasion (also to describe bash
scripts), since I find EBNF and the like quite cumbersome. It's more
for the fun of it, to have something I personally like better, not to
have something which is better by objective means.

Flo
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