I'm looking for a Perl Book... I think.

[Tad J McClellan]

Please provide an attribution when you quote someone.

I guess there's all sorts of Perl
flavors

All Perls are oyster flavored of course.

 

[Tad J McClellan]

and the syntax "$q->param" is the
same as "param($q)".

No it isn't.

(and you do not need to know anything about a method's special
first argument in order to use an object oriented module.
You need to know that if you are going to _write_ an OO module.
)


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#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

package Q;
sub new { bless {}, 'Q' }
sub param { print $_[0], "\n" }

package main;

my $q = Q->new();

$q->param();

Q:aram($q);

param($q);

 

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

You don't need a 'server'. You just need a computer: the one you're
posting from will probably do fine. If it's running Win32, you can get
perl from strawberryperl.com; if it's a Mac, you've almost certainly got
perl installed already. If it's running something else, let us know and
we'll see if anyone knows how to get perl installed on it.

While installing a local webserver can be useful for testing websites,
CGI.pm has a useful 'testing' mode when a program using it is run from
the command line.

Even if that is true, access to a local web server is the better way to
test CGI scripts before uploading them. And, assuming Windows, it's very
easy to install all you need (and more):

http://www.indigostar.com/indigoampp.html