Sometimes you get sick of having to use long module names. This module allows you to load a module and have it be aliased to another name....

Many Perl release announcements included an *epigraph*, a short excerpt from a literary or other creative work, chosen by the pumpking or release manager. This file assembles the known list of epigraph for posterity, and also links to the release ann...

• perl58delta - what is new for perl v5.8.0
• perlthrtut - Tutorial on threads in Perl

The "load" pragma allows a module developer to give the application developer more options with regards to optimize for memory or CPU usage. The "load" pragma gives more control on the moment when subroutines are loaded and start taking up memory. Th...

This module makes it possible to assign any out of band data (attributes) to any Perl data structure with both a functional and an object oriented interface. Out of band data is basically represented by a key / value pair. Object Oriented Interface T...

This module adds ordered destruction of objects stored in global variables in LIFO order during global destruction. Ordered global destruction is only applicable to objects stored in non-lexical variables (even if they are in file scope). Apparently ...

The "forks" pragma allows a developer to use threads without having to have a threaded perl, or to even run 5.8.0 or higher. Refer to the threads module for ithreads API documentation. Also, use perl -Mforks -e 'print $threads::VERSION' to see what v...

• forks::shared - drop-in replacement for Perl threads::shared with forks()
• threads::shared::hash - default class for tie-ing hashes to threads with forks
• threads::shared::array - default class for tie-ing arrays to threads with forks
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The "ifdef" pragma allows a developer to add sections of code that will be compiled and executed only when the "ifdef" pragma is specifically enabled. If the "ifdef" pragma is not enabled, then there is no overhead involved in either compilation of e...

This module collection aims to provide an object-oriented way of working with Perl ithreads. Current features are: - Inter-thread communication through messages and message-queues - A simple "MethodServer" class that exposes a standard class to other...

With *Safe::World* you can create multiple virtual instances/compartments of a Perl interpreter, that will work/run without touch the other instances/compartments and mantaining the main interpreter normal. Actually each Each instance (WORLD object),...

The udebug function returns the status of the lightweight Ubik process for the database server process identified by the port argument that is running on the database server machine named by the server argument. The output identifies the machines whe...

• scout
• rxdebug - Provides debugging trace of Rx activity
• afsmonitor - Gathers statistics about File Servers and Cache Managers
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This module was born out of the need to be able to easily specify which subroutines of a module should be available (as in "compiled") in different sets of mod_perl environments (e.g. the visitors front end web servers, or the personnel's back-office...

Aliasing is the phenomenon where two different expressions actually refer to the same thing. Modifying one will modify the other, and if you take a reference to both, the two values are the same. Aliasing occurs in Perl for example in for-loops and s...

*** A note of CAUTION *** This module only functions on Perl versions 5.8.0 and later. And then only when threads are enabled with -Dusethreads. It is of no use with any version of Perl before 5.8.0 or without threads enabled. ***********************...

This package is intended to provide a method whereby the P-values of a set of GO annotations can be determined for a set of genes, based on the number of genes that exist in the particular genome (or in a selected background distribution from the gen...

• GO::AnnotationProvider::AnnotationParser - parses a gene annotation file
• GO::OntologyProvider::OboParser - Provides API for retrieving data from Gene Ontology obo file.
• GO::OntologyProvider::OntologyParser - Provides API for retrieving data from Gene Ontology files

This module determines whether an email address is well-formed, and optionally, whether a mail host exists for the domain. Please note that there is no way to determine whether an address is deliverable without attempting delivery (for details, see p...

By default, Perl doesn't share literal ( 0, 'foo' , "bar" ) values. That's because once a literal value is stored in variable (a container), the contents of that container can be changed. Even if such a container is marked "read-only" (e.g. with a mo...

*** A note of CAUTION *** This module only functions on Perl versions 5.8.0 and later. And then only when threads are enabled with -Dusethreads. It is of no use with any version of Perl before 5.8.0 or without threads enabled. ***********************...

• Thread::Tie::Thread - create threads for tied variables
• Thread::Tie::Hash - default class for tie-ing hashes to threads
• Thread::Tie::Array - default class for tie-ing arrays to threads
• 2 more results from Thread-Tie »

Provide a simple way to (re)set %ENV variables at compile time. Usually used during debugging only. This is just syntactic sugar, without any additives....