Perl Cookbook by Tom Christiansen & Nathan Torkington Here are the changes made in the 3/00 reprint: (125) Near the bottom of the page, indentation of `sub fact...' is now flush left. (254) In the Discussion section: now reads: "are numeric values normally found lurking C include files." ^ in (325) 3rd to last line of code: Indentation of `foreach...' is now flush left (340) 1st paragraph of Discussion section, the $ of $variable is now is constant-width font. (444) 2nd paragraph, 2nd sentence rephrased: "Constructors don't have to be class methods; it's often useful to have object methods that themselves return new objects, as discussed..." (447) In the 3rd paragraph, last sentence rephrased: You could call a class method (one expecting a string argument) on an object or an object method (one expecting a reference) on a class, (476) 2nd paragraph now reads: Because an object is a higher-level notion than a raw machine address, ^^^^ (558) Last paragraph: "The exec in Chapter 3" now reads "The exec function in Chapter 3" {579} Last block of code: print _POSIX_PIPE_BUF now reads print PIPE_BUF. (648) First block of code: All double quotes are now straight quotes