Programming PERL in the .NET Environment

Summary

This chapter examined a number of important classes in the .NET Framework. We began with a study of the root class Object and looked at some methods that should frequently be overridden in your own classes. We then studied garbage collection and finalization and saw some of the relationships between memory management in .NET and in Perl. We looked at directories and files, including the use of streams. We concluded with an introduction to multiple thread programming using .NET and Perl. As part of our architecture for using the .NET thread classes, we saw how to make use of delegates in Perl programs, a topic that will also be important in the next chapter when we study event handling in user interface programs implemented with .NET. ...