Klaas-Jan Stol wrote:
Was there a "programming perl" book for Perl 1? Or any other books? For now I'm kinda stuck, because I don't know the exact semantics of each construct of Perl 1.
I ran into the same thing. The first edition of "Programming perl" wasn't until Perl 4. The best you're going to do is Larry's examples post <http://dev.perl.org/perl1/dist/example.gz>. If you pass the test suite, and those code examples, that's a reasonable success.
When you need to fill in gaps in the semantics that aren't covered by the tests, and aren't decodable by digging through the Perl 1 source code, you can assume that it's fundamentally similar to Perl 5. (That is, don't add Perl 5 features, but use Perl 5 semantics for the Perl 1 features, as long as it still passes the tests.) For example, I used the Perl 5 operator precedence table for PGE's OPP tools. Perl 1 doesn't really have a documented operator precedence table, it only has a parsing order. But, Perl 5's operator precedence table works for Perl 1 and passes the tests.
If we later run across old Perl 1 code that doesn't work with Punie on these assumptions, we can always change Punie to match.
Allison
