Table of Contents1. Preliminaries
1.1. Course Outline
1.2. Assumed Knowledge
1.3. Objectives
1.4. The course notes2. Perl Development Structure
2.1. Perl Versioning
2.2. The Development Tracks
2.3. Perl 5 Porters
2.4. Pumpkins and Pumpkings
2.5. The Perl Repository
2.6. Summary
2.7. Exercises
3. Parts of the Interpreter
3.1. Top Level Overview
3.2. The Perl Library
3.3. The XS Library
3.4. The IO Subsystem
3.5. The Regexp Engine
3.6. The Parser and Tokeniser
3.7. Variable Handling
3.8. Run-time Execution
3.9. Support Functions
3.10. Testing
3.11. Other Utilities
3.12. Documentation
3.13. Summary
3.14. Exercises

4. Internal Variables
4.1. Basic SVs
4.1.1. Basics of an SV
4.1.2. References
4.1.3. Integers
4.1.4. Strings
4.1.5. Floating point numbers
4.2. Arrays and Hashes
4.2.1. Arrays
4.2.2. Hashes
4.3. More Complex Types
4.3.1. Objects4.3.2. Magic
4.3.3. Tied Variables
4.3.4. Globs and Stashes
4.3.5. Code Values
4.3.6. Lexical Variables
4.4. Inheritance
4.5. Summary
4.6. Exercises

5. The Lexer and the Parser5.1. The Parser
5.1.1. BNF and Parsing
5.1.2. Parse actions and token values
5.1.3. Parsing some Perl
5.2. The Tokeniser
5.2.1. Basic tokenising
5.2.2. Sublexing
5.3. Summary
5.4. Exercises

6. Fundamental Operations
6.1. The basic op
6.1.1. The different operations
6.1.2. Different "flavours" of op
6.1.3. Tying it all together
6.2. PP Code
6.2.1. The argument stack
6.2.2. Stack manipulation6.3. The opcode table and opcodes.pl
6.4. Scatchpads and Targets
6.5. The Optimizer
6.6. Summary
6.7. Exercises

7. The Perl Compiler
7.1. What is the Perl Compiler?
7.2. B:: Modules
7.2.1. B::Concise
7.2.2. B::Debug
7.2.3. B::Deparse
7.3. What B and O Provide
7.3.1. O7.3.2. B
7.4. Using B for Simple Things
7.5. Summary
7.6. Exercises

A. Unix cheat sheet

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C. ASCII Pronunciation Guide