Perl 5 Internals - Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Development
  3. Perl 5 Porters
  4. Pumpkins and Pumpkings
  5. Source control
  6. /usr/bin/perl Overview
  7. Tokenizer
  8. Parser
  9. Variable Handling
  10. Runtime Operations
  11. IO Subsystem
  12. Libraries
  13. Perl Variables in C
  14. SV
  15. Reference Counts
  16. Reference Counts Again
  17. Flags
  18. References
  19. Welcome to Hell
  20. Hell This Way
  21. Hell That Way
  22. Hell In a Handbasket
  23. Hell's Bells
  24. Using the Reference
  25. Inside an SV: Integers
  26. Devel::Peek
  27. SvIV code
  28. Inside an SV: Strings
  29. cur vs len
  30. PVIV
  31. String Length Hack
  32. String Length Hack 2
  33. C strings vs Perl strings
  34. Functions for Perl Strings
  35. Floating Point Numbers
  36. PVNV
  37. Arrays
  38. Your Brain Has Exploded
  39. Array Functions
  40. Hashes
  41. Structures
  42. Hash structure
  43. Dump of hash
  44. Objects
  45. sv_bless
  46. Magic
  47. Typeglobs and Symbol tables
  48. Stashes Continued
  49. Code Values
  50. Private Variables
  51. Fundamental Operations
  52. Inside an OP
  53. opcode enum
  54. Different types of op
  55. PP codes
  56. PP definitions
  57. Stack
  58. THE END
  59. See also
Table of Contents YAPC 19101, June 2001
Perl 5 Internals
Simon Cozens