NAME

Inline::PERL - Bring the power of PERL programming to your Perl programs.

SYNOPSIS

    use Inline::Files;
    use Inline PERL;


    greeting("PERL");


    __PERL__
    sub greeting {

        $foo = shift @_ || $_[0];

        $! = 1; # Turn buffering off

        for ($i=1, $i<=10, $i++) {
            @a[$i] = $i;
        }

        local $length = @a.length;

        print "Hello, $foo\n";
    }

DESCRIPTION

Inline::PERL gives you the power of the PERL programming language from within your Perl programs. This gives you instant access to hundreds of pre-coded applications such as bulletin boards, hit counters and shopping carts.

PERL is a programming language for writing CGI applications. It's main strength is that it doesn't have any unnecessary warnings or strictures. It is a direct descendent of Perl, a programming language which was used mainly by programmers. However, the original language required too much reading and thinking and so PERL was developed as a language which was more in tune with the requirements of the Internet age.

PERL DOCUMENTATION

Unfortunately there is no documentation for PERL (believe me I've looked everywhere). Therefore, the best thing to do is to go straight to comp.lang.perl.misc and ask your questions there.

PERFORMANCE

Your Inline::Perl program will run slowly the first few times that you run it. After that you will get used to it.

AUTHOR

John McNamara jmcnamara@cpan.org

When I set out to write this I discovered that everything that I needed was already in the Inline::Foo module. Curse you, Brian Ingerson, you are making life *too* easy.

My apologies to Brian, the Inline community and, er, the PERL community.

INLINE API

If you are interested in writing a genuine Inline add-in you should have a look at the Inline-API documentation and the Foo.pm example that come with Inline.

CPAN RT