Table of Contents

Volume 3, Number 4 (#12), Winter 1998

Just the FAQs: Coping with Scoping 3
Perl’s two schemes for naming variables.
Mark-Jason Dominus

Perl Heresies 8
Not all conventional Perl wisdom is wise.
Jon Drukman

A Dynamic Navigation Bar with mod_perl 10
Navigation bar envy, sated with Apache and Perl.
Lincoln D. Stein

Installing Perl and Perl/Tk on Win32
The trials and tribulations of a Unix user on Windows.
Steve Lidie

s/($text)/speech $1/eg;
Kevin Lenzo
Speech synthesis in Perl.

Perl News
What's new in the Perl community.
Chris Nandor

Bricolage: Data Compression
How to squeeze your data into the smallest possible space.
Mark-Jason Dominus

The man(1) of Descent
Generating your own parsers in Perl.
Damian Conway

The Perl Quiz Show
For ten points, what magazine are you reading now?
Jon Orwant

The Perl Journal One Liners