NAME
    Perl6::Doc - all useful Perl 6 Docs in your command line

SYNOPSIS
        > p6doc -h     # Show p6doc help
        > p6doc -c     # Show Table of Contents
        > p6doc s05    # Browse Synopsis 05

DESCRIPTION
    This Perl module distribution contains all the latest Perl 6
    documentation and a utility called "p6doc" for viewing it.

  Apocalypses
    The document codes "A01 - A20" refer to the Perl 6 Apocalypses.

    Larry Wall started the Apocalypse series as a systematic way of
    answering the RFCs (Request For Comments) that started the design
    process for Perl 6. Each Apocalypse corresponds to a chapter in the book
    I<Programming Perl>, 3rd edition, and addresses the features relating to
    that chapter in the book that are likely to change.

    Larry addresses each relevant RFC, and gives reasons why he accepted or
    rejected various pieces of it. But each Apocalypse also goes beyond a
    simple "yes" and "no" response to attack the roots of the problems
    identified in the RFCs.

  Exegeses
    The document codes "E02 - E07" refer to the Perl 6 Exegeses.

    Damian Conway's Exegeses are extensions of each Apocalypse. Each
    Exegesis is built around a practical code example that applies and
    explains the new ideas.

  Synopses
    The document codes "S01 - S29" refer to the Perl 6 Synopses.

    The Synopsis documents are to be taken as the formal specification for
    Perl 6 implementations, while still being reference documentation for
    Perl 6, like I<Programming Perl> is for Perl 5.

    Note that while these documents are considered "formal specifications",
    they are still being subjected to the rigours of cross-examination
    through implementation.

    In other words, they may change slightly or radically. But the
    expectation is that they are "very close" to the final shape of Perl 6.

  Overview and FAQ
    These are shorter summaries about a smaller specific topic. They are
    written mostly by the crazy Pugs people and replacing some of the
    outdated Synopses that are still marked as [Draft].

  Tutorial (building up)
    This is an community driven effort to translate the Perl 5 manpages into
    the shiny Perl 6 world. There are still are half way through the intro.

  Perl Tables
    Reference styled set of wiki pages made by myself.

  Magazine articles
    Helpful articles from perl.com (http://www.perl.com) and $foo
    (http://www.perl-magazin.de). See the authors name in the section 
    SCRIBES, below.

CONTENTS
    Below is the list of documents that are currently available; a 
    number in the column indicates, the document is currently available.
    An asterisk next to a number means that the document is an unofficial
    draft written by a member of the Perl community but not approved by
    the Perl 6 Design Team. The pages after the first section are anyway
    no Design docs.

    S01  The Ugly, the Bad, and the Good   (A01)
    S02  Bits and Pieces                   (A02) (E02)
    S03  Operators                         (A03) (E03)
    S04  Syntax                            (A04) (E04)
    S05  Pattern Matching                  (A05) (E05)
    S06  Subroutines                       (A06) (E06)
         Formats                                 (E07)
    S09  Data Structures
    S10  Packages
    S11  Modules
    S12  Objects                           (A12)
    S13  Overloading
    S16* IPC / IO / Signals  
    S17* Concurrency
         Debugging                         (A20*)
    S22* CPAN
         Portable Perl
    S26  Documentation
    S27* Perl Culture
    S28* Special Names
    S29  Functions

    F01  FAQ::Captures
    F02  FAQ::FUD

    O03  Overview::Operator
    O04  Overview::Smartmatch
    O06  Overview::Subroutine
    O08  Overview::Variable
    O09  Overview::Data
    O12  Overview::Object
    O16  Overview::File
    
    T01  Tutorial perlintro
    
    M01  Report on the Perl 6 Announcement
    M02  What is Perl 6 ?
    M03  A Plan for Pugs
    M04  Everyday Perl 6
    M05  The Beauty of Perl 6 Parameter Passing

NOTES
    Perl6::Doc was before Perl6::Bible which is now depreciated. We
    changed that name, because we now deliver much more content than just
    the Apocalypses, Exegeses and Synopses.
    
    If you are interested in helping out the documentation project,
    please contact us on irc.freenode.net #perl6 or
    perl6-compiler@perl.org. You can also help greatly by editing the
    official Perl 6 wiki under: http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6

METHODS
    Perl6::Doc provides a class method to get the raw text of a document:

        my $text = Perl6::Doc->get_raw('s01');

SCRIBES

    These are the authors of the included docs, named in the order their
    work was added :

    * Ingy dt Net <ingy@cpan.org>

    * Sam Vilain <samv@cpan.org>

    * Audrey Tang <autrijus@cpan.org>

    * Kirrily "Skud" Robert <skud@cpan.org>

    * Moritz Lenz <moritz@fau2ik3.org>

    * David Koenig <karhu@u.washington.edu>

    * Jonathan Scott Duff <duff@pobox.com>

    * Phil Crow <philcrow2000@yahoo.com>

    * chromatic <chromatic@oreilly.com>

    * Mark-Jason Dominus <mjd@songline.com>

    * Herbert Breunung <lichtkind@cpan.org>

PACKAGING

    Collecting, cleaning and updating of the docs:

    Herbert Breunung <lichtkind@cpan.org>

SOURCES

    A couple of paragraphs from I<Perl 6 Essentials> were used for the
    overview. Most of the Bible docs (Apocalypses, Exegeses, Synopses)
    are from the official Perl development site. 

    http://dev.perl.org/perl6/

    All draft Synopses, Overview, FAQ and Tutorial pages were taken out 
    of the Pugs SVN repository.

    http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/docs/Perl6/

COPYRIGHT
    This Copyright applies only to the C<Perl6::Doc> Perl software
    distribution, not the documents bundled within.

    Copyright (c) 2007. Ingy dt Net, Herbert Breunung. All rights reserved.

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the same terms as Perl itself.

    See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html
